Author: G-Mac

  • One of my biggest frustrations with WordPress has been the amount of times that, at seemingly random times, I would get a completely blank screen. Now a little research, and enabling debug messages, turned up that this was typically due to various plugins overloading the php memory limit. The mighty google thre up a few solutions,…

    fixing the WordPress white screen of death

  • For no other reason than I’m developing an appreciation for country music…or more specifically Bluegrass music. Strange how your tastes change as you get older….

    I think I’m getting old

  • Sunday Sunday, well as weeks go it’s been fairly good… I’m back into blogging – back drawing – back working towards hitting a few goals. However, the highlight has to be Isaac picking his first strawberry from the garden:- So all good! I think the aim for the coming week is to sort out the…

    Sunday…

  • So Wednesday I had one of those moments when the perfect song came on at the perfect moment. Complete serendipity… But my memory for songs is nothing like Mr Bradshaw’s and I wasn’t quick enough with shazam which left me in a dilema. So this song has been bugging me for days disco/funky/house….all about love……

    Finally found the song that’s been bugging me…

  • Well that isn’t strictly true. I’ve finally hit on a perfect theme for satiricalblog.com and so have made the move to port it over to wordpress. So hopefully soon I can get back to drawing – certainly there is enough going on in the world. Oh and I started a few ‘1 second everyday’ films…

    A night of not much…

  • It seems today has been brought to me by the number 1. From the events of 11.11 this morning to stumbling across 1second-everyday. So 1SE got me thinking (again) about how I need to get back into blogging (again) and it might be a nice quick way to track things in this my 40th year.…

    11.11

  •   Is facebook killing modern romance?

    Facebook Romance

  • Rather than ‘proceed with caution’ Instead – ‘proceed with alacrity’  

    random quote

  • Before getting into the nitty gritty of applying CSS it’s worth taking some time to understand the HTML structure of the page in _s. Conceptually I always think of an HTML page as a series of boxes each nested inside one another – each having a unique name with different types of boxes sharing characteristics.…

    Underscores step by step – Step 3, HTML layout