I’m getting there slowly, still no reviews yet though. So this is just a quick entry to wish y’all happy pancake day. We got through 3 episodes of TV smack ‘Lost’ last night along with homemade chicken tacos. I’ve rescheduled the launch of agave web cos there’s lots to be written & proof read about web design to get the google love going. Also I’ll need to shove it through a few validation services cos the HTML is sloppy in places. Then there’s the meta tags… I’m very happy with my first PHP script, now you can put in a word count and it tells you how much a translation will cost you. It’s probably impossible to write a simpler script but I’m happy.

10 input “How many words”;words
20 print “That’ll be “;words*.5;” please”
30 rem Who’da’man?

Oh yes… I’ve still got it… If you fancy seeing what real programmers can do have a look at the pointless but fun javascript at Cesar’s blog.

Click for Oscar Bingo cards from The Wave
With a week’s notice, you can probably print them out in colour at work… My favourite: “Winner thanks agent before God” then “reference to anyone as ‘genius’”. Enjoy
well after discovering that any colour but blue is okay for the party political propaganda. Back to square one… (It’s like designing for The Socialist Workers Party in Royal Blue… except in reverse. D’oh). But I got something made and it’s been approved for the candidate. Huzzah. Should mean a bit of beer money coming my way in the near future. I might put the winning design up in a few weeks time… I’m still not sure how separate this blog is from the corporate site in terms of search engines…

Brace yourself for some reviews. I’m going to be extremely busy these next few days but hopefully I’ll manage to fit in some reviews of: Manu Chao (and the Radio Bemba riots) live in Gwod (Chingón), Two for the Money (middling), and The King (A curate’s egg). Buying the first season DVD of Lost yesterday is not going to help my time management neither… And did I mention Sita’s off on a three day tequila course in Tequila on Wednesday? Alrighty, 9:41am now am off to get the 39A bus to Plaza Bonita…

Went out for a fantastic fondue meal last night. Two parts cheesy bread to one part steak washed down with Casillero del Diablo. I felt a little sketchy afterwards though. I blame the cheese… anyway thanks to a relatively early night I’ve been very productive today working out a pricing schedule for the website. I’m trying to get my head round which reseller hosting service to use, any ideas? I’m hoping Flash might be able to help on this one… I’m also working on a logo for a local political candidate to put on t-shirts, mugs, business cards, etc… to run past him on Monday. Sita’s been v. helpful with nods and shakes of the head. She hasn’t seen this one yet cos she’s at the gym… never mind…

I’m in two minds as to whether to go off photoing stuff in the fading light this afternoon. Jose hasn’t rung- last night he turned up to tell us he was feeling very ill. And contagious. So we packed him off back to his flat and went out on our own. Me and him were going to go off filming in a barrio across town but that’s looking unlikely. I think we’re staying in this evening for Capote and wine. Not too much though cos we’re going to see Manu Chao in concert tomorrow evening. I’m more than a little excited about this… I hope they let me take my camera. It’s in the bull ring and should be fantastic. He’s one of the few acts I still own a T-shirt of… My Suicidal Tendencies ones have disintegrated since I got them at Clash of the Titans 15 years ago… Jose had a photo from ‘98 he showed me where I’m proudly wearing my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles shirt. Wish i still had it. Anyroad… Busy busy busy and all that might post more stuff in the near future. NB. Designing political propaganda does not mean I neccesarily endorse the party…

Fancy checking out the beta phase of my latest creation? Well in that case, hie thee hence to Sinescopio- Diseño Web y Traducción desde Guadalajara, Mexico. And tell your spanish-speaking web-site-needing friends