Author: Rob

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.

Today I cycled to work in what is supposed to be the start of my fitness drive. Having cycled nowhere of distance in a good 9 months I knew it would get the heart racing a little.

Erm… how wrong was ?!

I’m unfortunate in that the first half of the journey is up hill, but they aren’t seriously steep. It was on these hills where my shocking lack of fitness kicked in. My legs felt like they were on fire and I was panting and wheezing as if I’d run the Flora London Marathon at the weekend. Sure, I made it to work ok, but it was quite a frightening wake up call for someone who thought he was “a bit unfit” up until today.

I manage to get through five a side on a Wednesday night without too much trouble, usually, with a stint in goal to get my second wind. It’s painfully obvious that I’ve been pacing myself at five’s, though – I probably would have collapsed if I’d put any real effort into it.

At least I know the extent of my unfitness now, and can begin the long haul back to cardiovascular equilibriance… or whatever. Anyhow, let me ask you… sitting in front of the computer as you are… when was the last time you got your heart rate going… and I don’t mean by looking at Bangable?