I’ve been very much enjoying my Christmas holidays here in Edinburgh, and it just struck me that I only have one week left before I have to go back to Manchester and start Term 2 of uni. The problem with holidays is that they always come to an end, and I’m never quite ready to leave Edinburgh and return to Manc. Anyway, I’m going to have to start the studying tomorrow. Annoyingly, I have an essay on the Spanish Civil War due in the first week back, and another on the EU which I need to get done before the 20th, so it’s the library for me for most of the rest of the week. None of this is helped by the fact that I’m trying to co-ordinate an Inter Isles Young Greens ‘get-together’ back here in Edinburgh just one week into term. ‘Get-together’ gives the impression that its a nice little informal thing which practically organises itself. It is far from that.

Anyway, I’m continuing to execute my resolution to blog more this year, even if it is just little random moans like this post has been. Lets see how it keeps up next week.

If you have ever visited this site before, then you’ll probably have noticed the new design on the home page. I got fed up with just doing little edits to other people’s themes, so I did a big edit to one of the themes which came with the CMS which I use. The underlying code is all from the original theme, but I have changed most of the graphics and quite a bit of the CSS, along with a little HTML. Mainly the CSS needed to be modified to accept the new sizes for the graphics, and the HTML edit was to slightly finesse the fShare implementation. As well as the home page, all the other pages have either had this theme added, or in the case of the politics section, a slightly modified version of it. The only area which hasn’t had a significant change is Code is Simple, though it has had a little modification to the spacing of some of the graphics, and a new background.

Considering that I spent several hours making it, it is fairly unsurprising that I’m happy with the end result. There are a few little faults here and there, but I put a discrete ‘beta’ in the header to take care of those!