Previous news: 21 June 2009

What's up?
I've had decent (i.e. Non-Geocities) web presence now for over a decade and while my desire to spend my free time creating content for a spattering of people I've never met has lessened, I still make my living from the internet - so we're still good friends :)

I'd like to think I'll do something with this site, but I'm not sure what... At the moment I'm enjoying retro sites like http://www.iimusic.net/, http://www.offworld.com/ and http://www.infinitelives.net/ but I don't have the time or contacts to maintain that kind of blog. If you're any ideas, thoughts or other noises in your head of the website, hit me up at maverickuk@gmail.com

At it's peek this website was because of it's forum, because of it's community. I provided a meeting place, but it was everyone else who brought the colour and life here. Once the forums started to dry up, that was the beginning of the end. It would be great to revive the forums, but the original Strifers have now moved on with their lives and they'd need to be major event to bring back the crowds here.

Glastonbury 2009
At work we recently finished and published our new Glastonbury police website. I've very proud of what our team managed to put together in a few short days, it's a very nice looking and functional website!

Most of the content is taken over from the one it replaced, but we've come up with a brand new design, written it to be much more DIVy than it was, slapped in jQuery and AJAX everywhere we could think of and even included the konami code ;)

My personal high point is that I've written the back-end to tie into a life weather feed from Glastonbury, so the weather on the site changes as the sky gods alter the heavens over the festival. It also changes the design at different times of the day, thanks to some dynamically generated images and stylesheets. Finally the header image of the stage will change depending on what stage the festivial is at. Crypto cool

Baby
July 2nd is the due date for my first child - it's amazing how quickly a pregancy flys by and you're at the other end waiting for it to all kick off. I've enjoyed the personal freedoms earning a wage has given me and living in my own house with my wife. However as the years have gone by I've felt like something is missing. Watching Sky movies and chipping away at the morgage each month is nice, but life can offer so much more. I know I'm going to be more tired and poorer but I also know I feel much more satisfied with my lot in life :)

Mav