What do you mean you’ve never read
Y the Last Man?

And boy, has it come together!

The picture gallery is complete, combining some sexy server and client-side scripting to give you all sorts of dynamic-ness . It’s probably also the nicest way to look at porn in a browser ever.

Likewise all skinned and twiddled with is the chess thing. There’s 8 users on there, including myself, and I’ve got 5 games going, which I guess makes me a bit of a nerd? I dunno. It’s not dynamic, by the way, more a sort of postal-chess that will persist for days and you refresh the page to see if the other guy moved yet. It can also do email notification, but I didn’t reckon anyone would be up for that.

Speaking of chess, I picked up book 5 of Y the Last Man yesterday, which rocks all sorts of hard, and I now know that ancient chessboards never used to have a queen, oh no. They had a vizier, which could move one square at a time diagonally. When the Europeans picked it up they souped-up the vizier and it got re-named to “queen” because queens were the big noise in Europe at the time, or something.

Oh, and by the way. Snow Patrol totally put out a pair of great albums before they hit the big-time with Final Straw in 2004. 1999 gave us the jam-packed 68-minute Songs for Polar Bears and 2001 heralded the rousing When It’s All Over We Still Have To Clear Up. Seriously, you should go check them out. I did, and it made me a happier, more balanced person.

It’s amazing how they’ve grown on me, really. I remember listening to Final Straw shortly after it was released, when everyone and their brother was raving about them only to find them kind of samey and well, sort of pale, if that’s a word that can describe a sound. Listening to it now though I can see that I was clearly on LSD and missing a large part of my frontal lobes which I have since regained.