Monthly Archives: April 2005

Times tickin on

All those of you who want to play in the Amzing eBay Challenge better get a wiggle on… I’ve got my entry sorted and damn is it a good un!

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Temporary temptation

I succumbed to my bi-annual demon today. Having popped into town to do some truly glamorous shopping* and get a hair cut, I was in need of sustenance and ran into an age old enemy when it comes to luncheon … Continue reading

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6 – 0 … against

Well last night was an unmitigated petanque disaster. Some of you may recall my opinion of the Pierson Road Terrain. I tend to use words like “nightmare” and “geometrically impossible” when describing it. Well Pierson road was the scene of … Continue reading

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Too busy to type

No really. You wouldn’t believe how busy life has become of late. It seems like every waking minute is spent working on some project or another and for every piece of work that drops of the radar another is waiting … Continue reading

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Can you tell what it is yet?

All those observent people (and those you do more than just read the RSS feed) will have noticed that something has changed around here … And that something is more fundamental than just a new template (it’s called Kubrick by … Continue reading

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No more trackbacks

Damn these spammers to hell and back. I hadn’t realised that Trackbacks weren’t working last week due to a change in the config. So yesterday I fixed the config, tested the trackbacks and was content that everything was working… It … Continue reading

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Adobe / Macromedia – my predictions

Well it seems that every man and his dog has waded in on this one so I figure I should throw in my $0.2. My initial reaction was one of shock and awe. The primary tools that I use on … Continue reading

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The biggest and best just got bigger … and better?

Via Matt comes this surprising anouncement. Adobe are to aquire Macromedia … for $3.4 beeelion Wow! The link to the Adobe site is hosed at the minute but there is more out there Update The official release from Adobe is … Continue reading

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Because the world really needed a singing Egyptian crocodile from Germany …

It never ceases to amaze me, the sheer quantity of pap music that comes out of Europe. By Europe I mean pretty much everywhere but the UK which is still hanging on (just about) to a proud musical heritage that … Continue reading

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Things I learnt this weekend

That I can mow the lawn in under 20 minutes if it looks like it will hiss down at any minute I don’t like loud people all of the time It is perfectly possible for two people to savage £30 … Continue reading

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