Friday, 19 April 2013

Right brain or left brain spin spin spin spin, oh my word, so dizzy....

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/weird/the-right-brain-vs-left-brain/story-e6frev20-1111114577583

This is so very, very strange.

If you see the dancer spinning clockwise, you use more of your right brain.
If you see the dancer spinning anti clockwise, you use more of your left brain.

Apparently, more people will see anti-clockwise than clockwise.

However, when I first look I see clockwise, and then she keeps changing randomly for no reason seemingly beyond my control.   My head is so screwed right now.

What does this even mean??

The Right Brain vs Left Brain test

Friday, 15 March 2013

Specify a different link colour on a specific part of a webpage

This is a very useful tutorial I just found which tells you how to specify a different link colour on a specific part of a webpage, (when all your - a:link a:visited  a:hover a:active link rules are already set)

http://www.adesdesign.net/blog/tutorials/css/having-different-link-colors-on-one-page/


Normally for this, (because I am lazy) I just settle for changing the link colour using a simpleton dumb person method...   Like this...


<a href="http://www.somethingorother.com/somethingelse.html"><FONT COLOR="#0000000">This is a link to something or other</font></a>


However...  with my favoured lazy option, you don't get to choose a hover mouse over colour or any of that jazz. I can cope happily with this under normal circumstances, but this time round I was using some sort of javascript thingy which played havoc with my lazy method and a turdy brown link on top of a blue background will just not do....   no, no, no....

Thankfully I found this tutorial which uses css to achieve the specific link colour...

Here is my test example, as demonstrated a whole lot better on the tutorial link I provided at the beginning of this post.




<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Different Color Links</title>

<style type="text/css">
a:link {color:red;}
a:visited {color:red;}
a:hover {color:red;}
a:active {color:red;}
td#footer a:link {color:white;}
td#footer a:visited {color:white;}
td#footer a:hover {color:white;}
td#footer a:active {color:white;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table width="100%"  border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20">
<tr>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFF00"><a href="#">Link 1</a> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td id="footer" align="center"  bgcolor="#666666"><a href="#">Link 2</a> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>


No more turdy brown links over blue for me....  no, no, NO!

Wednesday, 23 January 2013

Suzanne and The Count Warm up Dress Rehearsal Type Performance


You are invited to a "dress rehearsal" of music performed by: 



Suzanne & The Count 




Suzanne & The Count are:

  • Rachel Gatiss (Vocals / Guitar) 
  • Steve Wilson (Double Bass)
This will take place at:

  •  Quebec Village Hall, Quebec, County Durham, DH7 9DF at 1.30pm, 2nd of February 2013 (Saturday)   Please click here for map.


Free cups of tea & coffee and a live acoustic (ish) set of well known (ish) songs.

Suggested voluntary donation = £1  - (Or more if you're feeling generous!)
This is to help cover cost of hall and other expenses. 

Please feel free to invite whoever else you want so long as they are not stupid people.


Thank You.