I always find it quite insulting when the United States flag gets used as an icon for ‘English’. Technically it shouldn’t even be the British flag, but really the English flag. But you don’t often see that do you?
And considering there are more Portuguese speakers in Brazil than Portugal, why not show the Brazil flag for Portuguese (if you’re being consistent with the use of the US flag).
Or… just don’t use flags to illustrate language. Ever.
Kurt Vonnegut is off to the big Breakfast of Champions in the sky.
Alas, I’m on dialup. It’s been so long. I must say, when the modem connection sounds piped out of my laptop, I nearly shed a tear.
Almost.
Broadband come back!!
That’s right. As of Friday the 3rd of February, 2006, our new home is West London. The holiday is over; from Singapore to Munich we had a ball through eight countries. Now it’s time to find a job!
I was very slack updating this site along the way; Angela was handling the journal writing more than adequately for both of us (rather spectacularly, actually). However, I did managed to upload a fair few photos to Flickr along the way (with surprising ease in even backwaters of South East Asia) – I’ll upload plenty more when I get the chance.
Looking at some of the horrific photos coming out of New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina, this photo from the BBC struck me. Why? Not because of the screaming women and the seemingly reticent National Guard, but because of the Burberry bag. (more…)
Andy Clarke has written about some very nice colour tables he’s derived from some photos he took recently in France.
There was some interesting conversation on the post about geography/culture influencing colour and style, particuarly from Molly Holzschlag. Following Andy’s examples I thought I’d put some of my favourite travel photos through for the hell of it.
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Wired News has an article on Brickfest 2005 with some amazing photos of what some “grown ups” have created with Lego.
I would have spent thousands of hours playing with Lego as a kid, and it really is one of the few toys that was as fun as it was practical. I think a lot of the problem solving skills I have now were pushed along by all those hours building spaceships, aircraft & whatever else I could think of. (more…)
For a while I’ve noticed a few pop up ads slipping through Firefox’s usually excellent blocker control. Some have even attempted to sell me Crazy Frog ringtones. It seems Flash (and other plugins) can bypass the usual blocking process, however Pete Bevin has worked out a way to stop Flash doing this, so no more pop ups… for a while, anyway.
And it was my fault, not WordPress! Anyway, so far WordPress is much better than Movable Type. Mostly for the fact that I don’t have to hit the ‘rebuild site’ button ever, ever again. Hooray for that.
Goodbye MovableType, hello WordPress… and a strange PHP error which will be resolved shortly.
