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The Beeb have just launched their new site, and boy is it fantastic. I was sitting there looking at the rugby news, and presto as the page loads I notice a different layout. Very, very good work. Take a look.

Venture yonder to read more. Just installed it, quite a nice administration section I must say, navigation is slightly different but it's intuitive enough that I quickly clocked where everything was. Just ironing out a few issues now e.g. a few template functions have been deprecated.

Guess what! Been working on a re-design again, Oops! Never happy am I. Personally, this time I blame the over-saturation of nice websites from numerous CSS galleries, which I've had to catch up with while I was away, and the fact that my design has been up all of, say, 5 months or whatever it was. But anyway, I'm doing it, no sure when, but definitely cracking it out. What I will probably ...

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One my favourite sci-fi authors, Arthur C. Clarke, died this week at the age of 90. The visionary behind classic stories like 2001: A Space Odyssey and City and The Stars (which also happens to have been my read of the India trip) , he is an outright leg-end. Long may his tales endure. The title of this post is one of his three 'laws'. Wiki it, foo!

Never seen it played like this before. Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones is a farmer, who sells his own produce under the Black Farmer (tm) brand, who one day realized that he was in fact the only black farmer in England. Thanks to good PR and interest in his situation, he has made a bundle, even starting a blog about it all. Woah. I wonder what I could blag being a 1/8 Welsh, 1/8 Irish, 1/4 Greek, 3/8 ...

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I have arrived home (last week to be accurate) safe and sound. India was pretty phenomenal, definitely somewhere I'll go again one day not too far down the line. Back at work now, straight into solid coding, which seems quite distant to be now. More coming up for RR. Also, thanks to Peter for the badge.