My new website (well, the one I have finally gotten round to coding) is online over at Game Pixel.co.uk. Go and have a look.
I’ve also just finished a layout for Nick, it’s not online at his actual site at the moment but you can view it this way if you want a sneak preview.
As most people are aware by now, the new iPod Touch update announced by Apple at Macworld a few days ago is going to cost existing Touch owners £12.99 ($20 in the US though, but £12.99 is roughly $26USD, why do I have to pay an extra £3?).
Rumour has is that the 1.1.3 firmware update contains the new applications Mail, Maps, Stocks, Weather, and Notes (and the wiggle-rearrange feature), they are just locked until the update is paid for - so for now the 1.1.3 just has bug fixes in it, and no noticeable change except the iPod now has the iPhone dock. Thanks Apple, even though you’re trying to screw us over you might have actually just done us a favour - you’ve just made it a hell of a lot easier for people who don’t want to pay for the update get all the apps when the 1.1.3 jailbreak is released.
I’ve been asked to do lighting at the Damart conference next week. It should be a good show, but it’ll be really tight - no room for any slip ups or mistakes. Hopefully it’ll help me to get my foot in the lighting industry a little stronger, and a days paid work never hurts. We’ll have to see how it goes 
I’ve got a couple of jobs for January, so things are looking up. Hopefully I’ll be able to go on my road trip round the world this year, but we’ll have to see how it goes. I’m definitely going though, as soon as I can.
Also, over the next couple of weeks I’ll be rolling out a couple of changes to the website to get ready for the redesign and hopefully to improve SEO and such on the site. There will be a lot of structural changes going on, a lot of it behind the scenes and not really noticeable until the work begins on the design and cosmetics. I’ve already cut the length of posts which are displayed on the front page from the full articles to excerpts - so I won’t get punished for having duplicate content on the website. I do need to finish the work I have for clients though first, but I am working on my redesign in the background.
I’m going to start using this website a lot more. It’s been neglected quite a lot over the winter, but I plan on writing a couple of articles and maybe a couple of ebooks will be popping up over the coming months as well. I plan on updating every day from when the redesign is launched - lets get some content going.
A quick round up of the internet in 2007
Myspace continued to grow as Facebook made a global appearance, and even Granddads and Grandmas joined in. Similar websites are bringing social networking into our professional lives allowing interaction between people from similar fields opening up all kinds of new business opportunities. Perhaps more importantly however, the internet is now seen as a social medium - and more websites are giving the users control.
Sort of. Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7 and standards-based design took another step forward. IE7’s CSS support is still terrible, but it’s a work in progress. Word on the street has it that IE8 will pass the Acid2 test.
And onto everything else. Many new games consoles now come internet enabled, allowing for a full internet experience in the living room, along with portable devices such as the iPhone and iPod Touch boasting a full web browser on a decent-sized portable screen, with the PSP not far behind.
Opera plucked up the courage to take on Internet Explorer because of it’s lack of support for standards and is asking the EU Commission to force Microsoft to comply with industry standards for web browsers and either unbundle IE from the OS or include other browsers along side IE.
Microsoft is abusing its dominant position by tying its browser, Internet Explorer, to the Windows operating system and by hindering interoperability by not following accepted Web standards. Opera has requested the Commission to take the necessary actions to compel Microsoft to give consumers a real choice and to support open Web standards in Internet Explorer.
After being hacked in October, many customers were also hit hard again in December when their passwords were automatically reset, leaving many web masters shut out to customers for a couple of days before Royal Mail delivered their new passwords by post. Wouldn’t an email have done nicely?
Adobe released CS3, and with incremental improvements across the board the verdict was positive. Flash, specifically ActionScript, was given a large-scale overhaul also with ActionScript 3.0 being released. Microsoft released Expression and while nobody ditched Adobe’s new offerings, it’s worth noting a new competitor.
The popular image based bulletin board 4chan had a rocky time in December when its account with its domain name registrar was stolen, forcing the site to close and warn users about the potential loss of their personal information.
This video surfaced. Watch it on YouTube.
So basically, erm, what I was thinking of was, erm… Ah fuck. I can’t believe you’ve done this.
I’ve just launched a new website over at fr.eebi.es so make sure you go check it out, especially if you’re from the UK (as you can get some freebies) - I mean, who doesn’t want something for nothing?
Happy New Year to all!