http://www.calmbanana.co.uk Rachael's blog Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:09:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The .me domain became available for purchase earlier, and people have been snapping up domains like crazy. There are so many funny possibilities with this tld. tickle.me cuddle.me doyoulove.me Getting caught up in the excitement, I registered jai.me, because "J'aime" is a great word, and aweso.me, just because it says "awesome". I even had ... http://www.calmbanana.co.uk/2008/07/godaddy-disappoint-me/ I'm a huge fan of minimalism and simplicity. I love single-column websites, and I especially love single-page websites. Here are 5 of my favourite single-page portfolios. Stage5 Stage5 Studio is the portfolio of Danny Silva, a freelance web designer based in San Antonio, Texas. The dark greys and the bright blues give ... http://www.calmbanana.co.uk/2008/07/gorgeous-single-page-portfolios/ http://www.calmbanana.co.uk/2008/07/it-seems-my-interest-in-music-started-at-a-young-age/ Our contact with our ISP is up for renewal soon and I headed over to the BT broadband site to look at what options were available to us. One of those "scrolly" type adverts popped up saying I could have an IM conversation with a BT rep. I thought this ... http://www.calmbanana.co.uk/2008/06/talking-to-the-bt-broadband-people/ My trusty iPod Nano let me down the other day. I was doing something with it that Apple probably wouldn't like me doing, and my iPod threw a strop. I ended up having to hit the "restore" button which unfortunately wiped every single thing that was on the iPod. I used ... http://www.calmbanana.co.uk/2008/06/someone-has-been-messing-with-my-itunes/