Idlemind - nickcoster.com
Future gazing from a quiet corner of cyberspace.

As my tag line suggests I like the idea of web design but my skills are kind of lacking. I am in awe of the things that some people can do with design and I am determined to get amongst it too.

I have labelled this series of discussion with a new running version number. This is the first major change to the Rounders template that was supplied by Blogger after their big redesign. I have been making gradual changes but to really break loose I need to get rid of the rounded corners that give the template its name. This is really the only visible change.

Behind the scenes I have moved the style sheet out of the main document and into it’s own file. This will probably screw up all of the archive pages but I’ll get back to them later.

I the mean time I will be trying a few new things out. If things look crap and you are looking over here when it happens, let me know via the comments, and if you have any suggestions this noobie wants to hear them.

Well i thought that it would be easy to bang up a new design for this little blog. Wrong. On the bright side it has been a learning experience. I hope that you will forgive the “under construction” colours while I play around a bit.
I want to include a list of links and a book list of the things that I am reading.

Unfortunately that will have to wait till some other time. 3 hours of stuffing around with style sheets on a ’school night’ is taking it’s toll. gotta sleeeeep……

I have been plotting for some time to get a domain name and extract myself from the shadows of ISP web hosting. At last I have done it!!
Today I own nickcoster.com. Ok it’s not clever but it is original like me.
I’ll be moving stuff over there shortly.. See ya over there..

Today I feel that this site has somewhat come of age. Up untill now I have only been chatting to myself and a few friends and family who care to take a look from time to time. This is because this little site has sat here in its quet corner of the Internet universe with out any connection to the outside world. It is all very well to point links to other places but if nothing is directed back to you then you are still alone.

Over the past few weeks I have been reading a book called “Linked - How everything is connected to everything else and what it means for business, science, and everyday life”. This is one of many books about networks, the Web, small worlds, scale free systems and their ubiquity, complex systems and so on. As you can imagine all of these ideas are linked to each other as well.

For the first time I discovered a link from another web site to this one. As trivial as this may be in function, the connectivity that it opens up is not. You see, the site that linked to this one can be found on Google which means that my page is only 2 links away from the effective center of the Internet.