Still playing around with new layout options. This is why I could never get a tattoo – after two weeks I have yet to decide on a background. Since the colours in the background are going to have to dictate the other colours, I am not getting very far. I basically have the layout nailed in terms of “which box goes where”, I think, but the overall look is going to be radically different depending on which background I choose. If, for example, I go with something like this:
I will keep font and frame colours reasonably muted, too.
Whereas with something like this:
I will need the text to make a stronger statement.
(The text will be displayed on blocks of a single colour, most probably white, in any case, by the way.)
Decisions, decisions.
Complete change of subject: I saw half an edition of The Weakest Link yesterday, it was obviously a celebrity edition, as the participants all seemed to be writers (though I can’t say I recognised any of them myself). Normally, Anne Robinson gets on my nerves (I know the fact that she is “scary” is part of the concept, it’s just that to me she’s more annoying than scary), and I will only watch a few minutes before channel hopping or turning off (gasp!) the television. However, the participants yesterday were more able to hold their own than the average contestant, so instead of a one-way stream of abuse it was more of a two-way banter, and it was FUNNY. Even Anne Robinson (who actually seems like a nice person in most interviews – i.e. off the WL set) had problems keeping a straight face at times. I could barely contain my exasperation at the end, though. Jilly Cooper won. 7 thousan something pounds. And which charity did the earnest Ms Cooper want to give the money to? A memorial somewhere or other to “animals who have died in war”…! Oh, never mind the starving and abused children. Never mind, even, the LIVE animals that are mistreated or the ones that are on the brink of extinction. Lets spend the money on a memorial to honour all the dead horses. I mean, ten out of ten for good intentions, minus a gazillion or two for good thinking.
Anne Robinson, by the way, seems set to stir up another storm in Britain (and most of the rest of the world, I suspect). Having slagged off Wales, for which she has apologised, sort of, she has now moved on to the late Princess of Wales. AR is working on the new BBC series Great Britons, and claims to be surprised that Diana was nominated at all. Though I am more surprised at AR’s surprise than at the nomination, I can’t help agree with her in having problems seeing why Diana should be considered a “Great Briton”. No doubt the she has taken on the status of a saint to an astonishing amount of people, but there have been a lot of Great Britons, and quite a few of them did more to deserve the accolade than marrying the heir to the thrown and look alternately pretty and harassed on television. Yes, no doubt Diana gave pleasure to a lot of people when she visited them in hospital or wherever, and no doubt she did help raise the issue of landmines in the public conciousness. Although I wouldn’t go as far as Anne Robinson, I certainly think that one thing Diana was good at was to manipulate the media. And although Robinson’s own favourite, Margaret Thatcher, is not high on my list of favourite people, between her and Diana, if I had a daughter I’d rather she take Maggie as her role model (not least for her own happiness, look at the two: Which would you say had the happier life?). Maggie is not even on the initial list of 100, it seems. More’s the pity.
Voice in my head: Avril Lavigne singing Complicated (again)