For some reason the impetus that was picked up at the end of last week is still with me, but it also has rubbed off on some others, yielding the following.

Groove Armada, perennial favourites of mine, relaunched their website yesterday with demos from their new 12” and the upcoming album. I’m really looking forward to this; Andy and Tom never fail to impress and after rumours a couple of years ago that Lovebox might be the last album I was dismayed. Anyway, they switched label and are back on track. Of course I could pick the website to pieces, but I’m not going to.

Jumping on the redesign bandwagon, I got all excited to see Halifax bank had launched a new site this morning. Brimming with anticipation until the moment I pressed the Sign In button, I was sorely disappointed to find they still haven’t implemented the long awaited updates to online banking. If they made the whole process just a little bit simpler it would be great, and the banner saying changes coming soon has been there for over a year. In fact it was just a rebrand of the point-of-sale aspect of the site. I guess we’ll just have to wait a but longer for anything of any substance.

I dug my A3 printer out yesterday, and was pleased to find that only the red had dried out (being that it’s been over six months since I last used it, that’s pretty good). Unfortunately being that it’s such an unwieldy object, the rest of my office space had to be adjusted so it would fit in. Until now, all my files-for-print would stack up until I had time to batch print on the laser in the next room, but it just got annoying and inconvenient, plus I realised £40s worth of ink was evaporating away, so it became necessary. If I’ve learnt one lesson from the experience, it’s don’t work in a room with one corner that’s cut off at 45 degrees for no apparent reason… it makes rearranging furniture virtually impossible.

I had feedback from two clients yesterday that was tantamount to being awarded a knighthood. That cheered me up too.

In other news, I’m playing with some very sophisticated PNG techniques at the moment, which I’ll probably document soon as I haven’t seen anyone else doing similar at the moment.

I also tried to iSync my phone yesterday, and for the first time ever, it threw an error. Upon checking the error message I discovered my SonyEricsson wouldn’t take the calendar task “Buy a new phone”, which might be considered quite amusing if there isn’t much else going on.

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