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Charles Roper

Charles Roper

A guy working in biodiversity informatics out of the Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre near Brighton in West Sussex, UK.
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Yep, The Thick of It is definitely right up there with the best of the best. It's like the West Wing that's been taken by the Dark Side.
The Thick of It is possibly the best comedy ever made.
Despite best efforts, life has a tendency to kick one somewhere painful on a repeated basis.
@FontSquirrel Who would be the best person to announce such a campaign? @zeldman ? @markboulton ? Would be good to get blogosphere fired up.
@FontSquirrel We desperately need a campaign to encourage browser makers to adopt DirectWrite in their Win browsers ASAP. We need action!
The secret of @markboulton's unnatural levels of talent are revealed - check the number of followers: http://www.flickr.com/photos... Yikes!
I love Dropbox and all, but Jungle Disk v3 has arrived and totally owned it. The bar for cloud storage has just raised. http://blog.jungledisk.com/2009...
In Psychology Today, Understanding the Psychology of Twitter: "Twitter is an exercise in unconditional narcissism" http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...
CSS Sprites - Online CSS Sprite Builder / Generator - http://css-sprit.es/
Fantastic roundup of using @font-face: http://nicewebtype.com/notes... That code looks ripe for implementation as a Sass mixin.
@chriseppstein Have you got a 'what's new' list for the new version of Compass?
I love the Guardian Greenwash blog; it's a classic reminder of how we should always question the claims of big biz: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environ...
Using Digsby to manage IM, Email, and Twitter from one application - http://www.digsby.com/...
@Malarkey 's CannyBill 'open redesign' series of blog posts are some of the best I have ever read. He's on fire. See http://forabeautifulweb.com/blog
@flangy I've just closed the multiple editors one; what else?
High Performance Web Sites :: @font-face and performance - http://www.stevesouders.com/blog...
7-Zip Theme Manager - http://www.7ztm.de.vu/
A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog...
Taming Advanced CSS Selectors « Smashing Magazine - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009...
he third digit (c) is the sum of other attribute selectors and pseudo-classes in that selecto - Charles Roper
Mastering CSS, Part 2: Advanced Techniques and Tools « Smashing Magazine - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009...
Mastering CSS, Part 1: Styling Design Elements « Smashing Magazine - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009...
Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started « Smashing Magazine - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009...
git: Duplicate Signed-off-by lines — Will Norris - http://willnorris.com/2009...
99 High-Quality Free (X)HTML/CSS Templates | Showcases | instantShift - http://www.instantshift.com/2009...
50 Essential Web Apps for Freelancers – Web.AppStorm - http://web.appstorm.net/roundup...
@liamgh So you can watch TV in the kitchen?
My colleague Helen turned me onto ColorSuckr, which is the creation of her brother, @delarge http://colorsuckr.com/. It definitely doesn't suckr.
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