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London and the Vault

In less than an hour i’ll be getting in my car, with my wife, and off to visit friends in London. Really looking forward to it. It’ll be just over three years since i’ve been to London properly after living there for a few years, so visiting old haunts will be nice.

Another note. I’m chuffed to bits that i’ve finally made it into the CSS Vault. Thanks go to Mark for the submission.

On to the London thing again. I am thinking of dragging the wife, and chums, to the Design Museum whilst we’re there as we never really did much of the museums when we lived there. The Tate may be on the cards as well, that kind of depends what exhibitions are on at moment.

Of course there will be a visit to the Apple Store and possibly a purchase (my ears have been complaining of late because of the unforgiving iPod earphones. Some of those squidgy ones may be in order)

So, anyone got any ideas? Where can I go at the weekend? (that is of course assuming the friends, and wife, want to come with me!)

Comments

Watch out in the Apple Store. It’s virtually impossible to get near a computer, as hundreds of foreign students and tourists will be on Hotmail and Yahoo at every screen! It’s madness in there. Truly. It’s the biggest free internet cafe in town.

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Colly
Fri 21st Jan 2005
at 8:39 am

Hey, no problem on the submission. I think you’ve got a really nice, clean site going here. Apparently others do to, as all of the comments I’ve seen so far are positive.

Nice work.

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Mark
Fri 21st Jan 2005
at 8:04 pm

big congratz… love the design.  does seem to scroll very slow for me with FF 1.0 mac.

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clint
Sat 22nd Jan 2005
at 2:48 pm

Colly - The Apple store was manic. got there just before the lunchtime rush and the missus bought me an Airport Express for a late Christmas prezzie. Impressive bit of kit. Time to throw out all the cd’s!

Mark, Clint - Thanks for the comments. Clint, i’ve noticed it scrolls a bit slowly on FF as well. I’m not sure if that’s because by background image is fixed. I’ll look into it.

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Mark Boulton
Mon 24th Jan 2005
at 3:14 am

I knew the Apple Store would be busy. My Airport Express doesn’t work anymore (blub).

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Colly
Mon 24th Jan 2005
at 8:15 am

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A picture of Mark BoultonI'm a graphic designer from near Cardiff in the UK. I've been a designer for over ten years now and primarily work on the web. I'm still partial to a bit of print every now and then though. I used to work for Agency.com in London as an Art Director before working as a Senior Designer for the BBC in sunny Cardiff. This was all before I took leave of my senses and formed my own design consultancy, Mark Boulton Design Ltd.

I've got a thing about grids and typography and occasionally ramble on about them to anyone who will listen.

If you're after simple, clean and effective web design; let me know.