Monthly Archives: April 2002

I’ve sat for an hour or so tonight, messing around with the style sheet for this site and moving content around a bit. And I’ve come to the conclusion that it sucks!

Maybe it’s due to staring at it constantly for a long duration… but I doubt it… I reckon that the whole minamilist lack of colour thing is actually very sucky.

I thought it was good a few months back… hell, I even liked it… but now I’m just starting to think of it as a winter design. The kind of design that’ll cut a little mustard in the middle of a stark, cold winter. But now, with summer looming, I’m yearning for that splash of the rainbow that will warm the site up for me.

Since I’m the one responsible for all that kind of stuff, I lay the blame squarely at my feet. And since I’m also one of the untold thousands(!) that view this site on a regular basis, I know I have the cool, descerning kind of visitor that deserves a new look and feel.

So… spring project is the new look infoxicated.com – and no more gimicky style sheet switching either… well, maybe there will be… anyway, it’ll be coming to a browser near you soon.

I re-registered infoxicated.com for another two years the other day. After reading over at Adactio about the domain theft of Hoopla.com, I thought I’d get in there before my domain exipired next month.

Turns out that ensuring you’re fully up to date with your domain fees is not really enough – if someone steals your domain then it seems like it’s up to you to hunt it down and get it back, too. Network Solutions act as if their hands are tied… which is the opposite of what I thought they were supposed to do.

I only hope that kind of thing never happens to me… or to you for that matter, as it would kind of suck.

I don’t know why I fall for this every six months or so, but I really hope this is the last time. Scan hardware managed to stall me for a week before finally admitting on Monday morning that the flash-ram drive I’m after isn’t in stock and probably wont be in the near future. Goddamit!

What funks me off is that I believe in giving places like Scan a second chance… and a third in this instance. But there comes a time when you have to draw the line. Before anyone thinks I’m being a bit harsh, I should explain further how I came to order from Scan when they’d let me down in the past. Well, Scan have this Today Only thing, where they list some products on their site and knock a few quid off for that day only. I mean, slag me for being an optimist, but you’d expect them to have the funking product in stock if they’re offering it at a bargain price for that day only!

So here I am, almost ten days later without a flash-ram drive. Luckily it wasn’t essential or I’d have been climbing the walls. Anyhow, I didn’t take much pleasure from cancelling my order on Monday… or rather, I told them to forget about the flash-ram drive and just send me the USB hub keyboard that I’d ordered to go with it. Surprizingly the keyboard was in stock, but not so surprizingly it hasn’t turned up yet – so I’m still no better off.

Anyhow, rant over, but be warned, you know – steer clear of Scan Hardware.