Little Britain Series One DVD

One of the funniest TV programmes for a long time. Little Britain Series One put new TV channel BBC3 firmly on the map. This hilarious creation of Matt Lucas and David Walliams started life on radio before it sledgehammered it's way on to TV.

Tom Baker Narrates

Tom "Dr Who" Baker gets the show on the road in his own inimitable way: "Britain, Britain, Britain, land of technological achievement. We've had running water for over ten years, an underground tunnel that links us to Peru, and we invented the cat." Then we are introduced to some of the finest comedy sketches since Benny Hill. Characters like chav teen Vicky "Yeh but no but" Pollard, Emily "I am a real ladyyyyy" Howard, Daffyd the Gay and grumpy Andy and helper Lou.

This 2 disc DVD set is a classic collection of British comedy, featuring the original pilot show, the complete first series, deleted scenes, Jonathan Ross interview, and a Best of Rock Profiles in which Walliams and Lucas impersonate rock stars.

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Be sure to check out the Little Britain Talking Dolls - Vicky, Daffyd, Lou and Andy.

Bulletproof Web Design

I first got introduced to Dan Cederholm's writing by buying his "Web Standards Solutions" book. I only had to read a couple of pages and I was hooked. It is one of my all-time favourite web design books. Clearly showing you how to create useful web standard driven CSS. So when I first heard about "Bulletproof Web Design" from Dan's excellent SimpleBits site. I couldn't wait to get my paws on it.

Bulletproof CSS

I am slowly learning new CSS tricks and techniques and this book is already part of my armoury for building fast-loading, easy to maintain web sites using web standards. If you do not know what web standards are, buy a copy of "Designing with Web Standards" by Jeffrey Zeldman. If you are already up to speed, then this book may be of interest. It is a full colour book, containing 270 pages of tried and tested CSS and markup techniques.

A slow start

Chapter 1 deals with sizing text with keywords and percentages. It was a little dull, but extremely useful. As Dan points out in the chapter's conclusion. "And here's some good news: this initial chapter is probably the least interesting of the entire book but very necessary in order to set a solid - no, flexible - foundation for the examples that follow." Ok it maybe a little dull, but for me the examples in this first chapter justify the cost of the book alone.

Flexible web design techniques

Through the use of glorious colour. Dan walks you through scalable navigation, Expandable Rows, Creative Floating, Indestructible Boxes, No-image browsing, Convertible Tables, Fluid Layouts and the last chapter puts it all together to build a flexible, bulletproof design. This is a very practical book, demonstrating real-world supple techniques that will encourage you to develop flexible and bulletproof web designs. Each chapter starts with "A Common Approach" - showing how a particular technique may have been done prior to this book and builds to show you a better, more elastic CSS techniques that are better semantically and for the users that browse your websites.

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Moleskine Notebooks

Moleskine notebooks are simple black notebooks, but with some features that make them the notebook of choice for anybody who likes to use paper instead of PDA's or computers to record their thoughts and ideas. I love my computer and iPod, but nothing has surpassed the ease of use and incredible archival qualities of paper. Using paper you can permanently archive your thoughts. Computers are not so permanent. A hard disk crash could lose it all. Regular backups can help. But in 20 years will you still be using the same operating system? No such grief with paper. If stored properly it will last thousands of years. (Pencil being the preferred medium, as graphite will not fade like ink can.)

Why Moleskine?

Moleskine notebooks are based on a design of notebook used by some of Europe's most notable intellectuals, writers and artists. Van Gogh, Hemingway and Chatwin all used the original Moleskine notebook. The modern Moleskine uses a synthetic 'Mole Skin' cover. (No moles are harmed!). The cover is held together by an elastic enclosure, which keeps the pages clean and tidy. Opening up you find an attached fabric bookmark, which is useful for quick access. On the inside back-cover there is a expandable pocket - great for receipts and clippings. The notebook has pocket-friendly rounded corners and is available in two sizes, for pocket use or your desk. It is this unique combination of features that makes the Moleskine special. It's history is just a bonus. It really is a very practical and useful notebook. It's quality acid free paper will preserve notes, sketches and words a lot longer than any other medium available.

Moleskine Models

There are many different varieties of Moleskine available. Most shops only keep one or two types. MojoLondon were the original online Moleskine shop and they keep them all in-stock. From Moleskine Sketch Books to Music Books or the useful Memo Pockets. I use an Moleskine address book to remember passwords and log-in details, and from a security point of view, someone would have to break-in and steal it, there is no way someone could hack it! I use Moleskine Ruled Notebooks for lectures and for snippets of code. My wife uses the Moleskine sketch book for drawings and pictures.

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