Kurt Vonnegut is off to the big Breakfast of Champions in the sky.
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R.I.P. Kurt Vonnegut
Wednesday, April 11th, 200744.0 KBPS
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006Alas, 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!!
Now Brought to You From London!
Sunday, February 5th, 2006That’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.
Brand Impact in New Orleans
Friday, September 2nd, 2005Looking 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…)
Global Swatches
Wednesday, August 17th, 2005Andy 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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Lego Envy – Brickfest 2005
Wednesday, August 17th, 2005Wired 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…)
Firefox Pop Ups
Monday, August 8th, 2005For 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.
Back in Action
Sunday, July 24th, 2005And 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.
Stand by…
Thursday, July 21st, 2005Goodbye MovableType, hello Wordpress… and a strange PHP error which will be resolved shortly.
Great, another blog…
Thursday, April 14th, 2005Yes that’s right. I have joined the hoards of tech-savvy ‘bloggers’ on their virtual soap boxes preaching into the abyss that is the web. So far, a good attitude to have.
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