Black Ink

All the news that’s fit to look upon in a skeptical manner:

• “Tony Wilson was buried in a coffin numbered FAC 501. Factory’s last catalogue number.”
• “My Bloody Valentine fans are getting excited about a possible comeback next year at Coachella.”
• “Joss Whedon’s long awaited UK based Buffy spin-off, Ripper, starring Anthony Head, starts filming next summer for BBC.”

So, my spiffing new website design has a bug, and I’m fucked if I know how to fix it. If anyone round these parts would care to take a look at http://ala.sda.ir, first in Firefox, and then in IE, and then tell me why the photos in the middle column line up in Firefox, but not in IE, and what I need to go to get them to line up nicely in IE, I’d be very grateful, in a beer-buying kind of way.

Cheers.

Anyone interested in going to any of the following?

12/09 – The Go! Team at The Electric Ballroom
20/09 – Skindred at the Scala
29/09 – PJ Harvey at the RFH

Bastard. Must pay more attention in future.

After some small effort, and a couple of false starts, I have more or less finished redesigning my main personal website, ala.sda.ir. I’m quite pleased with how it’s turned out. I’ve got an IE-only display bug to sort out (the photo grid isn’t quite aligned in IE at the moment, and I really want to spend a bit of time on the related posts feature, because I’m not really sure how the plugin I’m using to run it works out what is related – it feels a bit pot-luck to me at the moment. Still, it’s a rather more modern design than I had been using, which is nice.

I met him in passing once, at a music and the internet waffle-shop I went to when I was working at Sanctuary – he was there to argue with a man from the BPI about their prosecution of music downloaders – emblematic perhaps of his entire career – arguing against the accepted wisdom of the music industry, and what it considers “good business”. He may not have got as rich as another man might have in his position, but it was obvious that what he cared about was the music. There should be more people like him in the music biz.