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Keeping your CSS clean and tidy will save you and other people time whenever there is need to make changes. It doesn’t take too much time to keep it clean and once you start doing it it will be easier to keep doing it. Here’s 21 ways to streamline your CSS. Its worth the read and some of the stuff might stick and help you out.

Amazing game. Could actually be one of the best FM games so far I’ve had with my Leeds and for the record, I’ve won with 5-1 and 4-1 against Chelsea and totally hammered Fulham (which are quite good in my game) with 6-1 (I even got a videoclip of the goals which I might upload later on). But this game was intense! And not only that, it showed me how great the FM 09 engine really is.

I don’t wanna spoil it at all so I’ll just let you download the match file and let you look at it. But what I really fancy, without spoiling the game, is how ”fast freekicks” are taken. It really reminds me of Henry when he played in Arsenal and he took the freekick when noone was expecting it. It has never happened to me in FM and it did now. Its worth the look!

Apperance is everything. That’s pretty much what goes around. Great SEO, cache and performance does often fall in the shadow of apperance, but that doens’t need to mean that pages that have great SEO, cache and performance have to look ugly. One trick to make a website look nice and trendy is to put your time on making a nice menu, but make sure to have a good fallback because  apperance alone wont take you far.

Anyways, over at devsnippets, you can find ten great technices on how to make your multi-level menus look great using jquery, mootools and some other goodies.

From now on I’ll be sitting at our customers office during an episerver upgrade and with that comes a newly installed computer that needs to be customized for my likings. First things first and that is to install firefox. I just can’t work without it. Then the six add-ons that I install at once.

Web Developer: Because without it it would be a nightmare to do frontend job
Firebug: Because without this one it would be even worse! Firebug will let you fiddle around as much as you want with the elements of the page, aswell as show you the classes and what might be causing the errors you’re trying to find.
Yslow: Perfect add-on that will let you see a good overview over the items being loaded and the time it takes to load them up.
All-in-one Gestures: Once you start, you can’t stop. I love mouse gestures, they speed up things so much and are just so comfortable to use. The only downside is to use browsers that don’t support them and you keep rightclicking like a fool until you notice that it wont open up a new tab.
adblock plus: Cause I hate all ads. I truly truly do.
FireFTP: Perfect ftp client embedded to firefox. Best part is if you need to edit documents, you can just open them up with your favourite editor and when you save the document, it uploads it at once so there’s no need for you to click ”upload” or anything once you’ve done your changes. I’m sure that other ftp clients support this but its always some setting that you have to find. This is by default and I simply love it.

There are many more add-ons that are worth installing but these ones are just simply the ones I cannot be without. Actually, there is one more that would make it the seventh must have add-on. That is HTML Validator. But since its PC only it wont really make my must-have list. But if you’re on a PC, its really well worth the download

Vi hade som sagt bestämt oss att köpa akvarie och jag måste säga att jag trodde inte att jag skulle vilja ha fiskar SÅ mycket som jag vill det nu. Det kan bero på att vi kämpade i flera timmar på att få gruset rent och vi gjorde väldigt fint inne i akvariet. Det som saknas nu är som sagt lite fiskar 🙂 Vi har lagt in massa medel som ska lägga in rätt PH värde och bra atmosfär för fiskarna. Vi måste börja tänka vilka sorts fiskar vi vill ha osv osv.

Ebba och Liam hjälper till att rensa gruset.

Liam hjälpte väl och länge och jag kämpade vid badkaret

Vi fick varva om varandra vid badkaret. Det tog på knäna rejlät av att stå där och skrubba.

Två rensade hinkar med grus och mer på väg!

Vi tog en paus och åt goda mackor 😉

och dags för mera grus…. och tyvärr så insåg vi att gruset inte var rent nog så vattnet blev jättegrumlig. Vi fick tömma akvariet och köra en till runda av skrubbning. Nästa gång gjorde vi annorlunda dock. Vi fyllde akvariet med kallt och klart vatten och la in gruset försiktigt pö om pö.

Till slut såg det ut så här. Nästan klart!

Och slutligen så var det klart! Hällt i lite medel som ska göra vattnet hemtrevligt för fiskarna med rätt PH-värde osv osv. Det var mycket slit men väl så värt det. Nu längtar vi allihop tills vi kan köpa lite fiskar 🙂

Never before have I enjoyed FM so much as I do now. The urge to restart the game when losing is pretty much gone and during the entire season I only restarted once… and yes, I’m ashamed I did. It was due a game against Wigan and they went and killed my players. Five injuries, all of them between 3 to 8 months and I finished the game with only 8 players on the field. It did hurt quite a lot 😛 But ah well, I’ll take that single quit/load and remember it with shame to stop me from doing it ever again.

Anyway, here’s how the season ended.

A fantastic spring boosted us up from 19th to 11th spot, specially with the last 5 games. At a moment we were up to 10th place but West Ham won over manu with 3-2 and they could keep their 10th spot. Still, an 11th place is fantastic and the board and fans were more than happy. Evenso, financially we had a great year and I got 4 million quid extra for transferfunds in march (bought some great youths and a leftback) and later on I got 11.5 million for silly season, which is a HUGE increase from last season. The bad part is that our sponsordeal is only 250k a year 🙁

This is the best eleven for season four: (stats here are for all games, the stats below in the text are for the premier league only)

Moyá: A goalie that my ass.mgr found and boy is he great! Came as a Bosman deal from Mallorca and now everyone wants him. He has saved the team SO many times! And also got MOM 10 times which is a club record.
Asier Del Horno: He’s decent enough but my left defender spot will always be weak, so it seems. Season Stats: 25 app, 2 ass
Ross Wallace: Oh Boy! is this guy good! He came as Bosman from Sunderland and totally owned in the Championship.  42 apperances, 6 goals and 13 assist. Since we missed promotion that year we had to stick there for another one and that season was even better. 40 apperances, 7 goals and 19 assist! But the game in Premier League requires far more and the last season was not as great. 33 apperances, 1 goal and 6 assist is still a good record and he still makes it to the starting eleven sometimes. Also playing for Scotland now.
Blaise O’Brien: Golden boy! He’s a must-buy for any smaller club as he becomes a bloody wall in the defence. Cost 28k to buy him and he’s worth 5.25 million now. He did want to leave the club during the summer but I promised him to do my best and win some titles and he decided to stay. Season stats: 29 app, 3 goals and 3 ass.
Martin Jiranek: I bought this defender cause he seemed ok but mostly cause he’s from Czech Rep. which one of my future-to-be-stars (that didnt really break through) was feeling homesick and wanted someone from his own country in the team. Thing is, he became a great asset to the club and played about every game last season 🙂 Season stats: 36 app, 2 assist
Gláuber: A giant in the defence, atleast in the Championship. He’s doing a bit too many misstakes in the Premier League and he’s on rotation now this season. Still, he played quite a lot last season but was one of the players I had to replace. Season stats: 28 app
Fabian Delph: The Leeds Prodigy. Our own Fabregas. Delph wasn’t good enough to start the early seasons but last season he was a main character in our comeback to the Premier League. He’s still one of my best players and the worth of 5.5 million. Season stats: 31 app, 4 goals, 4 ass.
Badara Sène: Great DMC. Also worth now 5.5 million and was bought in for the sum of 1.8million. One of my most expensive purchases but well worth the penny. He’s great in the defence and aswell as building up the offence. He could’ve been my playmaker if it wasnt for Delph  and Ouefio which will become my future playmaker. Season stats: 31 app, 1 goal, 6 ass.
Jonny Howson: Leeds Prodigy nr2. Also worth 5.5 million now but it feels a bit overrated. He’s not really going to improve much more and it feels like this could be his last season in Leeds, if he doesn’t really improve now (I’m in november now). Season stats: 34 app, 4 goals, 4 ass.
Lucas Castromán: 32 years old now and not capable to be in the starting eleven (due my new sweeeet awesome striker pair, but I’ll come to that another time) but still a solid player. Without him I would’ve been stuck in the championship for ever. He came in for 500k and did 44 apperances, scoring 25 times(!) and 14 assist and being MOM 9 times under our Championship spell. Last season was more than ok for Lucas. 35 apperances, 12 goals, 3 ass and picking MOM 3 times.
Alan ”Leeds” Smith: I’m a sucker for Alan Smith. He’s one of the reasons that I loved Leeds so much in the early 2000. Then he left, broke everyones heart but has still shown how much he loves the club (IRL that is). The determination of Smith and the passion for football that he has is just admirable, so I just had to buy him back and he delivered! I was in luck because the year we got up, Newcastle got relegated and were in financial debt. I could buy of Smith for the amount of 0 quid 🙂 Season stats: 33 app, 10 goals, 6 ass and one MOM.

Subs:
Kévin Olimpa: Great goalie in the Championshio, not good enough in the PL. (Although Chelsea bought him this season, but on the other hand, Chelsea really suck this season hehe)
Danny Guthrie: Came in for 0 from Newcatle together with Smith but never really showed his potential. Sold him back to Toons (they bounced back at once) for 5.5 million 😉
Hocine Metref: Was ok in the Championship but way to whiney, asking for a starting position when he never was good enough. He got high ratings the four games he got on and therefor got into the best eleven. It should really ask for atleast 10 games played to make it to that list IMO.
Regilio Arts: Came in for 500k and worth 5 million now. Great defender! Sloopy as a youth but a hardworker now!
Nicky Hunt: Came in to be our blessing as right defender but he was misserable as a defender. I kept considing from the right side and it was all pretty much his fault. Awful player and I’ll never play him again. Sold him for 2.2 million to ’Boro (and they are doing GREAT now…. so maybe I missed something there hehe)
Jermaine Beckford: Started the season great with 7 goals in as many games. Then totally stopped and became useless.  He scored 29 goals in the championship which is more than great! but he truly is a championship player and doesn’t belong at all in the Premier League. Sold him for 100k.

Highlight of the season:

I was hoping that Ouefio would bloom out and become as good as he is supposed to be, but that didn’t really happen. Instead, the highlight of the season was between 22nd and the 26th of february. The 22nd we had a home game against Manchester United and the 26th a home game against Chelsea. Those two games were massive! Against Manu, we played really well but their defence is massive (as always) but we kept pushing and never really played a defensive style, which I guess is what they were expecting. Then in the 89th minute, Howson comes free on the right side, crosses the ball to Smith but Vidic reaches it first and bags it into his own net! 1-0 and three points in the bag! Funny thing is that Vidic was still MOM 🙂 Then Chelsea came and I was hoping for atleast a draw. Howson was on fire this week (players that understand the rivalty between teams are ALWAYS good to play) and scored twice on them! We had a 2-0 lead in the first half. in the 50th minute, Lucas scores 3-0 and I was in heaven! Then Howson had the missfortune to score an own goal (it deflected off from him) but Alan Smith ended the game with 4-1 and the fans were in seventh heaven. That was without a doubt the best part of the season. But after those two games we had Birmingham away and lost 2-3. A Birmingham that was on the 19th spot and totally cut off from safezone 😛

This is how season four ended for me. Our goal this season is to achieve european game. If we dont reach that stage, I’m afraid my wonderboys will end up leaving Leeds 🙁

So we packed our things and went to Uppsala to buy a fishtank and fishes. The kids have been asking for fishes for a very long time and we ourselves wanted some too. We’ve been pretty close a few times but always backed down at the last minute for the very same reason each time and one would think that we would’ve remembered that reason for this time but we didn’t and were close to once again back down. The reason is simple and logical but still easy to forget. The thing is that we want to go in and come home with fishes, but having no tank and needing to buy a tank means that it will take atleast a week to make the right atmosphere for the fishes in the tank. Then we can buy a few, then next week a few more and so forth.

Well, this time we went for it 🙂 We bought a 54l tank, some plants, gravle and some stuff that we need to put in the water. I’ll post some pictures while we’re washing all the gravel and setting it up.

Taking casual friday to the next step….

When you think that you recognize a song… well, then maybe you do 🙂

Both funny clips found @ www.estonoeh.es

Bumped into an article about the trends that are coming up under 2009 and I must say that most of them seem very very nice. Allthough some of them were already heavly used under 2008 and even under 2007, it’s still nice to see that the ”future” is being kind to them. More PNG transparency will force people to stop using IE6 and that can only count as positive and great! 🙂

The article is divided in two parts and worth the reading.

Part 1
Part 2

wow… does this mean that gamers have a hard time finding dates when using a ”normal” date site?

http://www.game4adate.com/ and to quote their page:
”Game 4 A Date is fun, it’s easy and more importantly, it’s about putting you in touch with people who share that same genuine passion as you do for all things videogames. So go on then, are you Game 4 A Date?”

I don’t know… my first thought is that a person that is VERY much into gaming might need to hook up with someone that can take that person down to earth. Putting two addicts to game together doesn’t really seem like a good idea at all. And if you’re not that much of a gamefreak, then you don’t really need to be on a site that is concentrated on dates for gamefreaks.

The only use could be cross countries perhaps…. some gamer in australia that wants to hook up with a gamer in sweden perhaps…..

But I’m gonna go and do a Simon Cowell and give it a …..