Archive for April, 2008

Alphabeat / Leon Jean Marie

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Alphabeat / Leon Jean Marie

Originally uploaded by battez

saw this great band AlphaBeat last night - kind of S Club 7 with early Madonna and recent Madonna thrown in. Lots n lots of catchy tunes…

Javascript slideshow Scriptaculous / Prototype based

Friday, April 25th, 2008

A really nice script for a basic cross fading slideshow in javascript was written by Andrew Sellick a wee while ago.
Along with others using the script I was suffereing from a behaviour in browsers where the images in the list items would be cycled through as stills briefly until the slideshow was ready to go […]

Chess for schools

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

…but only english schools it seems. Still, an interesting scheme to provide chess sets for free to all schools who apply. They look slightly ugly but are intriguingly meant to be near indestructible sets made from some form of durable plastic.

Chess tournament

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Hi we are having a tournament for he next 4 weeks at our Chess Club - “Phones” in Glasgow’s Polish club at the Park.
I have set up a website for the tournament using a free wiki