Rome is frickin’ wucked. We arrived on Tuesday night to a stinky dorm room after spending the day at Castiglio del Lago, on Lake Trasimeno - ![]()
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. The day spent by the lake was a nice relaxing start to the hectic nature that is Roman Italians, their coffee and their scooters. [...]
We got to the Cinque Terre yesterday afternoon in the blazing sunshine. We decided rather than hanging about the best bet would be to get to our accommodation and dump out heavy packs. Small problem, Bugsy forgot to write down where to catch the bus from… Anna was a little unimpressed and due to the serious lack of internet connectivity (how will I cope!) getting the information proved to be a struggle. After hunting around we found 1 place with 1 terminal in occupado. [...]
So, we are finally here. After a 2AM finish on Saturday night, a wedding on Sunday afternoon with lashings of champagne, thunderstorms Sunday night, a 3am start on Monday morning and torrential rain on the motorway to Stansted, we made it. We were forced to sit on the runway for an hour or so while the thunder cleared over London (during which Anna slept, and I tried to sleep on seats which were almost, but not quite, the exact opposite of comfort. [...]
I found this really cool script for using any font you like on your website without having to generate images. I’m using it to generate the titles in the header of this page, it seems to have the added benefit of allowing IE to allow transparancies which is great! Basically you set it up to replace anything inside a tag you specify with a PNG image of the text in the font you specify. No more having to use Arial for blog titles.
Check it out here…
I made this a few months back, and seeing as YouTube will let me share it for free, I thought I’d throw it out there. The only thing is its streaming only so no downloading ![]()