Well I’m back from france, and slightly nervously anticipating my A-level results tomorrow. It would probably keep me up the whole night anxiously refreshing UCAS track but having travelled the best part of 1000 miles by car in the last couple of days, and had not much sleep on the way I’ll probably drop off soon……

I did find something rather cool while importing all my photos from the trip in picasa though. Using the collage feature and selecting the multiple exposure some nice abstract almost marble-like textures can be made. It might take a bit of playing around with what pictures to use, and it needs a fair few images but you can quickly end up with the sort of thing that web designers probably spend a while producing. Here’s a nice image I ended up with after a couple of minutes of playing:

Things are slowly starting to pick up round here, and a few of you have downloaded picbox Please do let me know if you have any comments/suggestions, and it would be nice to know if it’s actually being used anywhere. I’m still tweaking the theme of this site too (you can probably tell I’ve never been much of an artist..) and will probably continue to do so for some time (read ‘forever’).

I do have an idea an a quick mockup for a new project though, it’s not a big one but I’m coming across a few tricky problems with different browser’s preferences of <object> and <embed> (which I might talk about in a future blog post). I’m also trying to decide whether or not to use mootools for it; as it will hopefully end up being a relatively small file either way, I’m not sure the extra size overhead of the framework is worth it.

In other news I’m currently enjoying a blisteringly fast broadband connection of 128kbps after going over our monthly usage limit barely halfway through the month! Thankfully I’m going away in 3 days, thus hopefully saving the world from my agonisingly-slow-internet induced murderous rampage… oh and did I mention ftp is blocked too?

See you in just over 2 weeks! (just in time for exam results results day…(woo?) :S )