Okay im not really the guy to post about news related stuff as James’ Blog is not a news blog, (thats what BBC news is for!) but I have been partial to post about events such as when everyone thought the world was going to end, you know that big Hadron Collider (Which somehow my post got onto Indian Television!) But anyway the latest news recently that’s breaking headlines and always on the frontpage is the Swine Flu pandemic. Yes it’s now a pandemic (I’m not too sure it should of been raised to one) but thats just me.

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Shadow in website design is something that can be achieved by using CSS and images, to achieve shadow in CSS2 you would use images and positioning, it can be achieved but it usually means that you have to create multiple divs. See my tutorial of creating shadow in CSS2 but one of the exciting new attributes in CSS3 is box-shadow which allows someone to get a nice shadow effect with just using one attribute applied to a div.

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If your up to date in the technology scene you will know that a couple of years ago Google released yet another of there ‘innovative’ products Google street. Examples of other innovations that they’ve had is Google Docs and Google Earth. The list goes on really. Google Street, which is an addition to Google maps and I say it’s addition, as it allows someone to actually psychically see the street of a place they search, instead of the bird’s eye satellite view that products like Google Earth use.

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You may have noticed that I haven’t been active in the March month as much as I’d hoped. The main reason behind this is because of exams that are approaching in about a months time and im finding myself not having time to post on my blog and generally my internet activities (That probably sounds wrong) but yeah I thought I’d post this to announce that im still here. Infact If you’ve noticed im still here reply to people posting comments on my various articles but just can’t find the time to post new content.

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Well recently my posts have been about computers and technology, and this one is no different, I’ve mainly been playing around with hardware and tech stuff recently so I thought I’d get a trend going. Over time of using Windows XP I’ve slowly started to really hate the Windows XP Theme you know the theme where you have a big blue task bar with a green start button, since Windows 95 the taskbar really hasn’t changed much but I’ve always thought it was fine as it is, so why fix something which is not broken, but recently I’ve gone back to the classic theme of windows that you would find as default in Windows 95, 98 or 2000.

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