Crunch | clagnut/blog

Crunch posted 18th March 2003

The real reason the West Pier collapsed. Nice one Bricey.
More on the Glasshaus collapse. It seems that Wrox’s parent company, Peer Information, is the one to be liquidated, along with all its assets. Many ex-employees have posted their details on Graphic Design Basics, which looks to be a fine site in itself.
And the music industry continues to hack everyone off by having a go at cd-wow, the UK-based dirt cheap CD seller. CDs are so expensive over here that it’s cheaper for cd-wow to import them halfway around the world from Hong Kong, and still knock them out at 50% less than the high street. And the BPI has taken offence to this, somehow reckoning it contravenes the UK’s Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, even though the CDs are genuine.

I somehow doubt the artists get more money just because the CDs are sold in UK rather than Asia.

A sad loss: It seems that Glasshaus, publisher of some great web design books, has gone out of business. The rumour is that their parent company, Wrox Press, is broke, so all the publishing houses below them are gone as well. Glasshaus weren’t around for long, but managed to capture…
West Pier on fire!: Brighton’s poor old West Pier is on fire. Yet more trouble for the beleaguered land mark. See the BBC webcam footage. It’s now burnt down to the metal super-structure. I don’t know what can have caused the fire, but my guess is arson. The pier is…
Now it’s the other pier: Brighton’s other pier, the Palace Pier, has now suffered it’s own disaster, catching fire in a rather big way. Sad as it is, I haven’t got quite as much sympathy with the Palace Pier as I do with the West Pier. The Palace Pier is nowhere near as old, and is…
West Pier: The trials and tribulations of Brighton’s West Pier.
buy this book: ‘Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation’ has just been released. Published by Glasshaus, it is written by four seriously talented people: Owen Briggs, Steven Champeon, Eric Costello and Matt Patterson. On this information alone I can…