I think the man from @media is leading a double life. What do you think?

Photos nicked from webstandards.org and garyoldman.info

All the best networking happens in the pub. In my case it was Clinks Bar on Southwark Bridge Rd. After wandering down and catching the last 20 minutes of the Q&A session at @media I collected the Freshfields crew and followed the mass of orange bags down to the pub. We then spent about 2 hours wandering round collecting bloggers. I think I only actually scared Roger from 456 Berea Street with my opening gambit of "So is the hotel comfier than a floor?" from his 'where the heck do I stay' post a couple of weeks back. Fortunately light dawned and we had a decent conversation about Icelandic versus Swedish for 5 minutes.

Also caught Andy Budd looking very scared at signing his first autograph and got invited (to stretch the definition slightly) to apply for a job at Stuff And Nonsense by Malarkey. Jon Hicks also wins the prize for the most words on one tshirt I've ever seen.

I really enjoyed my first conference even if I missed most of it. Its good fun going to the pub and having a natter.

As everyone else has done one I'm going to do a post on the biggest web design and accessibility conference on this side of the Atlantic. Unfortunately mines going to start with:

I can't go, boo hoo

However I AM going to the pub on Friday night to hopefully meet a few of the speakers and catch up on whats happened over the two days. I really want to meet Andy 'Malarkey' Clarke, Andy Budd and the other guys on my blog roll. Thanks to my gf getting tickets I'll also be getting updates which I'll post on here when I've translated them from the drunk. :)

To anyone who's gonna be there I'll see you on Friday night, have fun. 

I had my first trip to Boulters on Sunday with Craig, Bex, Jake, Small Robin and others (sorry guys, I didn't catch everybodies names). It was mad fun and I got photographed :)

Its definatly easier to work with than Chertsey and no where near as grippy although it was pretty impressive the previous weekend so that might be the ramp angle. Unfortunatly I missed the old skool session which is currently on show in the gallery at http://www.marsport.co.uk but I think Bex (pink boat) wins the best move and Craig (saluting) wins most random expression. The simultainious cartwheeling is also worth a look and theres no photoshoppage involved what so ever!

Looking forward to going back on Sunday, I'm still getting used to my G-Force and I want to be able to nail at least left and right cartwheels and a loop before the Rodeo which has been moved to the beginning of August. Only downer was I got water in my ear and spent most of monday wandering around trying not to fall over from the vertigo. Must remember to wedge the earplugs in better next time... 

OK, heres a cry to the masses, has anyone ever come across this one before?

I've got an unordered list of links set up as a horizontal bars using display: inline; One of the links is two words. In FF, Opera and IE 6 those two words sit on the same line as you would expect. In IE 5.01 they jump on to two lines without affecting the rest of the list. I think its something to do with the <li> but other than that I really don't understand it.

CSS follows:

ul {
 border: 0;
 padding: 0;
 text-align: center;
 }

li {
 display: inline;
 border-left: solid 2px #FFF;
 padding: 0 2.3em;
 width: 1px;
 width/**/: auto;
 }

a {

 color: #FFF;
 text-decoration: none;
 font-weight: bold;
 font-size: 1.5em;
 line-height: 1.7em;
 }

#nav {
 background-color: #C0C0C0;
 border: solid 3px #808080;
 list-style-type: none;
 margin: 0 15%;
 }

HTML for the list:

<ul id="nav">
 <li class="firstli"><a href="#">BLAH</a></li>
 <li><a href="#">BLAH</a></li>
 <li><a href="#">FIRST&nbsp;SECOND</a></li>
 <li><a href="#">BLAH</a></li>
 <li><a href="#">BLAH</a></li>
</ul>

As you can see I've had to encode the space to get it to work properly so its also got something to do with the split between the words.

HELP! please :)

I went and gave the guys a hand installing the latest redesign of the Boulters ramp yesterday. Well helped is stretching a point slightly, I acted as a heavy weight for some sawing and held up a plank while getting a face full of Thames water.

The design is quite a bit different this year, the downstream foot or so is attached to a couple of adjustable poles so it can be infinitely tuned. Also Graeme has added a pair of slanted sideboards which should concentrate the flow a bit more than last year. Its also turned a tasteful green colour to match that water

All in all its looking pretty good and I'm looking forward to getting my first trashing of the summer season. I know some of you have been down already so tell us all what its like, I wanna know who swum!

Welcome to my new, and in fact only, space on the internet. The idea of this psuedo-blog is act as a dump for anything I think is interesting in web accessibility, web standards and my local kayaking scene until I can get some hosting and a proper blog. It'll probably get dragged off into dark corners relating to uni life, placements and the art of getting drunk on a Friday as well but those probably won't make it across the river into a real blog.

It also allows me to find out if I can stick with having my thoughts dissected by an uncaring public (yes, you lot) and whether I can think of anything interesting to write more than once a month (I am better than Bill Gates, I AM!).

Pleasant welcomes, hellos and the like are fine, comment spammers will be hunted down, shot, shot again cause I like the sound and then hung by their little toes from the edge of a cliff.