Archive for November 20th, 2005

Boosh-Layout Magic

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

Hey hey hey, me and ben were talking about making our next site (modeling agency one) able to change its layout based on the size of the users screen resolution. Ie, small res = layout with main pic and one sidebar, larger screens can have two sidebars (one on each side) and HUGE resolutions can have multiple main pics etc. So today, ben shows me an awsome demonstration of this principle, and its simple, just ahve multiple CSS styles which get switched about by resize events in javascript. One swift recode of the CSS and boosh, ive got it running on my site.
Check it out, resize the blog window to something a bit smaller and

Hyper Geek Moment

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

Ok, this story isnt for the non-geek, so if you’re not interested in what Googles been doing buying up Dark Fiber for, or the reason google has 64 Datacenters and will increase it to 300+ over the next year then dont read on. :)
Linked is a story which is very interesting. If you didnt know Google has been buying up all the Dark Fiber from around the world, dark fiber is the fiber in the bundles which is laid out in the world but hasnt been lit up for data transfer, it was placed at the same time as its far cheaper than trying to upgrade 1,500 km of cable. However, Google started buying it all