Cheiro – Palm Reader
A short post about the clairvoyant astrologer and chieromancer Count Louis Hamon aka “Chiero”. [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley
Bruce Lee
My visit to Hong Kong was overcast at the best: wet much the time. I was staying in the Shangri La hotel in Kowloon, near the Tsim Tsa station. I’d caught the ferry back over the harbour and by the time I reached Kowloon the weather was finally starting to clear. I walked past […] [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley
Adding Halos (Opaque Children of Transparent Parents)
One of the most difficult aspects of the design was adding the transparent halos around blocks using the CSS opacity settings. This is difficult to do in pure CSS because opacity is inherited. A white backgound placed on a transparent parent will itself be transparent even if its own opacity is set to 100%. The […] [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley
Akismet Spam Defender / Site Status
Akismet is one of two plugins which come as part of the standard WordPress build (as at version 2.9.1). The second is Hello Dolly which has no purpose and can just be deleted. Akismet, though, is an essential plugin in the fight against recognising spam comments. The advice is very simple: implement it immediately. One […] [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley
Black Cake Icing
Black cake icing has a reputation for being hard to make, which is a shame because it can be used for some really fun cakes like this piratical cake by magpi. In fact black cake icing can be really easy. Your local supermarket may stock ready made black icing, or it can be bought online. […] [more…]
By Kate Phizackerley