I promised you some dinosaurs, so here we go. For quite a long time my Dinosaurs in Miniature page has contained the line Rules (coming soon) so I figure why not do something about that? As this blogging every day thing is very taxing, I'm presenting a skeleton list here and asking you good people to help me flesh it out. What am I missing? What have I got wrong? I'm only after more or less professionally published rules here.

Things I'd like to write

• A collection of the things I discovered during the site redesign project - mostly new (to me) IE bugs and Ajax gotchas and XSLT moans. This is started and every so often I open up the draft and a stare at it a bit.
• The tutorial on HTML tables in the CSS age that I mentioned mumble months back.
• All about my holidays - Lettice and I have managed long weekends in Dublin, Dover (don't mock, the castle is amazing) and Amsterdam (see below) this summer but I've hardly said a word about what we got up to.
• My continuing investigation of social networking sites. I've reviewed Bebo and Friendster and have Orkut, Yahoo 360 and probably a few others to come. (I'm not doing MySpace and FaceBook beacuse I was already members there and it wouldn't be a like-for-like comparison). Also something about Rapleaf/Upscoop.
• Um ....
• ... the rest of this list...

Some quickies

Well, a little bit moany, by comparison with some people[1] I've really got nothing to complain about, and what I have is largely self inflicted.

There ought to be a law against it.

I'm waiting for a furniture delivery. It's coming sometime between 7 and 6 today. Getting dressed before 7 on a Saturday? When you have no plans to go further than the local shops[2] today? It's just not right.

Seeing as I haven't posted all week...

Happy New Year

I have foolishly gone and made a bunch of resolutions, and told people what they are (so I can't conveniently forget all about them), so I might as well post them here:

1. Give up alcohol for seven weeks. An odd length of time, but it means I can start drinking again just in time for Lettice's 30th.
2. Give up soft drinks, sweets and crisps. Yikes! All in one go.
3. If I buy breakfast on the way to work then I must buy a cheap lunch. Kind of vague this one, but I know what I mean.
4. Pay at least £100 into my savings account every month. Standing order now set up to transfer the money the day after I get paid, so I don't need to do anything else for this one.
5. Limit my wargames/role playing games spending. I did a little experiment a while back and the results were a bit scary. I'm aiming for a lower figure this year - £500 total, so I have a limit of £100 per quarter and an extra floating £100 for magazine subscriptions and similar costs.
6. Get a hair cut at least every two months. Lettice may want me to go for "the full Tom Baker" but there were some very frightening photos of me taken at the Christmas party and I think short is better.

Five days into the year and I haven't broken any of them. Though the fact that alcohol free lager tastes even more revolting than regular lager and that alcohol free bitter doesn't seem to exist, may be my undoing.

[1] Lawrence Miles has dumped his diary/blog for November and December online in one big splurge. It's not easy reading. This guy is one of the most talented writers to ever touch Doctor Who but he's got some serious issues - I really don't want to say anything trite like "tortured genius" because that turns a person into a cliché.

[2] More importantly to the Farmer's Market - West Norwood is moving up in the world!

Via littlebun and linniekin comes a whimsical slice of memery.

What type of Fae are you?

At least I wasn't a bloody pixie.