Introduction
SoftAqua v1.0 has been ported and modified from the original theme for the Mac. It bears resemblance to the Smooth Stripes style, with modified colours, and has a ’soft’ feel to it. It moves away from the standard Red/Yellow/Green buttons of the Aqua theme, and is toned down to a more subtle Yellow/Green/Blue. The visual style is provided with two different colour schemes - ‘SoftAqua’ and ‘Smooth’. SoftAqua resembles the above screenshot, with a metallic bar across the top of each window. The Smooth variation gives a metallic gradient all the way down the window.

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Just got my Jeantech Visco case

It’s a great piece of kit, with a cool look and finish. It also includes an air purifier which filters your working conditions to aid the environment. Revolutionary!

You can read more about it here

Lots of things happening at the moment:

StyleSuites have just introduced advertising payment for parts of the site - might help to fund the dedicated server a little:

You may have noticed some changes of the advertising layout/structure on the site recently. These have been made to streamline the adverts on the site, and to try to show relevant content on each page.

We also are now offering the opportunity to advertise on StyleSuites, in a number of different locations. Prices start from - 5.00 per month. Please contact us for more information.

Bear in mind, we have an average of 7 people online at any one time, have over 10,000 members, and have served well over 20 million requests since the site went online.

Going to the cinema tomorrow night to see Open Water - looks like it should be a good film. Also, Greenhead have organised a party on Monday night, so I’ll be going to that and staying over at Doddy’s house. He had a driving lesson today actually, strange to think that people in my year are starting to drive! Greenhead is brilliant, but I can see how fast the next two years are going to fly by.

I’ve just used Amazon’s A9 search engine for the first time, and i’m very impressed. It’s clean, easy to use, and uses a lot of Google technology (rather than trying to compete). Almost an improvement on Google!

From Slashdot:

“Amazon have put up a new version of their A9 search engine. The “Beta” label was dropped, the color scheme changed, and new search types were added: Images (provided by Google), Movies (provided by IMDB), and Reference (provided by GuruNet). Several sources are already reporting this.” Theopd writes with a more critical view of the hype surrounding A9’s launch (note the link to battellemedia); read on below.

Amazon A9

We’re going out tonight for a few drinks to celebrate Helen and Adie’s new baby. It should be good fun. We’re going up to the Alma, with Adie, Grandad, Dad and some of Adie’s friends.

I’ve just found this on the net, Michel Moore’s website. It’s a good read, and the whole site is very interesting:

First of all, thank you for pointing out to all of us that Mr. Kerry was never struck by a BULLET. It was only SHRAPNEL that entered his body! I did not know that! Hell, what’s the big deal about a bunch of large, sharp, metal shards ripping open your flesh? That happens to all of us! In my opinion, if you want a purple heart, you’d better be hit by a bullet — with your name on it!

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