http://www.gpearce.co.uk Stop the world! I want to get off.. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:01:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I fly out to Morocco tomorrow. This will be the last post I make before I come back, and then after that there will be loads and loads of photos. Basically, any emails sent to me from now on will be delayed two weeks in getting a response, there is an ... http://www.gpearce.co.uk/2008/07/well-bye-then/ I was doing a bit of design hacking earlier, and searched the internet (in vain) for a CSS sampler. You know the concept - you type in a hex code, and it tells you what colour you're using. Well, that's the second time I've looked, so I made my own, ... http://www.gpearce.co.uk/2008/06/a-css-colour-sampler/ I took these at sailing yesterday, because I was bored and broke the boat I was sailing. Their not very good, but I thought I'd post them anyway. [gallery] http://www.gpearce.co.uk/2008/06/some-sailing-photos/ I recently read Horus Rising , a book by Dan Abnett. It is the first in the series that I am reading, which follows the Horus Heresy, a civil war that almost tore the Warhammer 40,000 universe apart. The novel is part of a series, in which Horus, the newly ... http://www.gpearce.co.uk/2008/06/horus-rising-dan-abnett/ A biodiesel-powered trimaran has just completed the fastest round the world trip in a speedboat, breaking the previous record by an amazing 14 days. Braving pirates, storms and floating logs, the team made it all the way around the world on recycled cooking fat, arriving back at a Spanish port yesterday. ... http://www.gpearce.co.uk/2008/06/earthrace-fastest-round-world-trip/ In 5 days, I'll be flying out to Morocco. Everything is set now, all the kit is ready, and I'm really, really looking forward to it. I've got my camera sorted out, and I'm expecting to have LOADS of pictures when I come back on the 15th. I'm still trying ... http://www.gpearce.co.uk/2008/06/5-days-till-i-leave/ I was considering this earlier, I've seen hundreds, if not thousands of these general freelancer sites, and most of them are failing - the niche is starting to fill up.  However, what I've not seen many of are niche targeted job sites, for instance targeting content creation, article writing or such, and I think they ... http://www.gpearce.co.uk/2008/06/niche-freelancer-sites/ Yesterday, Ryan Boren announced Wordpress 2.6 beta 1. I've just upgraded to it. Among the cool new features are post revision tracking, which I've talked about before, and Google Gears support, which is very cool. I think I wrote about that before too. There is also better support for SSL for ... http://www.gpearce.co.uk/2008/06/wordpress-26-beta-1/