Monthly Archives: October 2008

The joys of the silver screen

It’s been an age since I did a meme thingy but I stole this from the Facebook profile of Matt “SUPPOSEDLY if you’ve seen over 85 films, you have no life. Mark the ones you’ve seen. There are 239 films … Continue reading

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And we’re online

Finally. We’ve been given use of a shared, ADSL connection here at the flat – no great shakes but at least good enough for email and web browsing. Of course they couldn’t remember the WEP key but thankfully … it … Continue reading

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Who are you?

An interesting point raised by Robert Llewellyn in one of his recent Llewtube vids what should we brits refer to ourselves as? This already difficult question is complicated even further by geographical sub divisions. For example, most Jersey Beans would … Continue reading

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Seeing the Llight

or rather hearing The Llight which doesn’t have quite the same ring as a headline. And what is The Llight? They’re a band, specifically a band in which my cousin Paddy plays bass, sings a bit and no doubt handles … Continue reading

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Seam Carving to resize images

Seam Carving is an image resizing technique that Jeremy originally pointed out to me … whilst on the phone … walking … through the rain … to the pub … funny what you remember eh? When J and I discussed … Continue reading

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Harry Potter just keeps getting darker

The trailer for the latest movie in the Harry Potter franchise has hit the interwebs and the series looks like following the books in terms of a continued spiral into dark and depressing narrative:

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Sans Interwebs – update

Well it may not be the ideal but it looks like we might be back online rather sooner than planned thanks to the Wifi offered by the hotel complex. Whilst it’s still a short term fix it will do for … Continue reading

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Trumpets!!!

Every so often there are a series of ads, born of creative genius, that are so fundamentally perfect they actually eclipse the original purpose of the medium and become viable entertainment in their own right… I’m speaking, of course, of … Continue reading

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Sans Interwebs

Will this is a pickle. The new flat, by virtue of being part of a Hotel block, has phone lines in all the apartments … which feed straight into a PABX digital switchboard… The long and short of this is, … Continue reading

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Moved – mostly

This weekend was one of those … two days with very little time for R&R which ends with the distinct feeling that you need a two day break to recover from it all. The GGF and I have finally moved … Continue reading

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