Yes, the design is currently pretty ugly and I’m sorry for that. My excuse is that it puts a minimal strain on the modem connection that I’ll be using to connect to the outside world and so checking on the site from time to time should be feasible.

Once I get back I’ll try and pretty the whole thing up and I’d welcome any links for inspiration that people might like to stick in the comments. At the moment I’m inclined to slavishly imitate something like Jon Tan’s site but I think that Georgia at rendered at 24pt is getting a bit old now and maybe I should try and be a bit more original without just lurching to the sans serif opposite, eg: Subtraction.

The logo is also a work in progress. I kinda like the idea of the combination of a bird/book/punctuation symbol that has come up so far but it certainly needs a lot of finessing.

And now, as a reward for sitting through this whiny post why not reward yourself with a nice little comedy video from The Flight of the Conchords.