Let's get ready to tumble

All work and no play makes frequency a dull boy.

Trying to find even a nano second of spare time these days is like trying to find anything worth watching on French television – it happens rarely, if at all.

The birth of Jude, the inevitable Christmas/Newyear madness and the final, teeth-grinding few weeks of a large project at work have all combined to severely limit my time spent in front of the keyboard – which explains the gargantuan 90 day timespan between posts.

The side effect of all of this is that the architecture of the frequency decoder blog/journal, which has the latest post taking pride of place on the front page, has shown itself to be totally unsuited for infrequent posters like myself.

A more suitable approach would be to convert the entire thing to a more maintainable, relevant and stress-free (and I’m loathe to use the word) “tumbleblog”, in which I can post code snippits, links, photos, quotes and rants without having to think about post categories, sections, keywords or, for the most part, the quality of the post content (as most of it would undoubtedly be links to other peoples web-spiel).

...which brings me right back to the first point – time, or the distinct lack thereof, means the conversion won’t be achieved in the foreseeable future, which in turn means the site will still be left with stagnant posts being displayed on the front page until the conversion is complete. Oh the drama of it all.

Still, it’s only a blog, as one work collegue so relatively put it.

For those of you still reading, your probably wondering what the pink ‘elan’ graphic has to do with this post. Well, it’s a sneaky way to place a link to the elan contemporary design “microsite” I hurriedly knocked up for a friend in Ireland. Shameless self-promotion so to speak.

I usually leave all aspects of the design to others more qualified than myself and tend to concentrate on the actual site/application development (PHP, Java, Oracle etc). The elan site gave me the opportunity to actually launch Photoshop and start meddling with layers and effects – which is a rare occurrance but one I enjoyed immensely.

Luckily for me, it’s a temporary, one-page “microsite” that required a minimum of actual ‘design’ (the full website shall arrive early 2006). Luckier still, I was allowed to use a position:fixed menu even after explaining it’s non-compatibility with your friend and mine, Internet Explorer – if only all clients were as accommodating.

So, thats about it for the next 90 days. Take care and happy new year to you all.