August 28, 2002
I was down the beach this morning and happened to see the Animal Planet Uncaged and on Tour road show setting up on Hove Lawns. It's here today and tomorrow so we might have to take a closer look...
Posted by Jane at 9:59 AM
A few months ago I received an email from someone asking if they could see a higher res image of this photo to see if they wanted to use it in their magazine. I replied and thought no more about it until today when I got an email saying that it is going to be in the November issue. I haven't asked for any money, just a credit and a copy of the magazine when it's published.
Posted by Jane at 4:50 PM
- Rising star
Next step is Vogue :)
Posted by missx on 2002-08-28 18:58:38
August 26, 2002
There's an article on the ThisisLondon.co.uk site about the temperatures on the London Underground during summer - it's hotter than the EU regulations for transporting animals, but there are no regulations for transporting people apparently!. Glad I don't have to use the tube any more.
Posted by Jane at 11:16 AM
Yesterday started off as a nice sunny day, so Rich and I decided to go down to Bar Gemini to meet Jeremy and Kirsty for a beer and then some lunch. We'd had a couple, and the band had finally started to play when it started to rain, and it really rained. People were streaming from the beach to the nearest shelter, people were packed into the pubs and shops along the sea front. And the rain continued. We watched one lady walk past with a carrier bag on her head. Then her and her friend found a big puddle and started kicking water at each other - the boys hoped it was going to become a wrestling match but they moved on. To be honest we really had a good laugh, and I took a few photos to record the event.
When the rain calmed down, we made a run for it and went for our delayed lunch at Browns and slowly dried out.
Posted by Jane at 3:22 PM
August 23, 2002
Saturday: we were over at Rob & Sue's place for Rob's 30th birthday party/BBQ. Ace time, great people, and someone bought Rob a Swingball but we headed off back home before it came out of its box. We then got lost trying to drive out of Kingston, but that's normal: it seems you have to drive around the one-way system a few times until you reach escape velocity.
Posted by Richard at 2:48 PM
Nick Berry was back at the garage over the road with his mini moke today. Not the greatest of photos I know, but he's the one at the back right hand corner of the car with a bit of window (or something) in his hands.
Posted by Jane at 3:55 PM
August 21, 2002
It's a year since we moved to Brighton, and it's been great. I'm not sure we've always made the most of being here, but we've certainly done a lot of fun things in that time.
Posted by Jane at 3:39 PM
August 20, 2002
For the last couple of days there has been a Mini Moke in the garage over the road from the office. This afternoon a couple and their kids came to collect it, and we were having a good nosey at it to see what it drove like. As they pulled out Jeremy recognised the guy - it was Nick Berry. So that's my second famous Brightonian. Lots more to go...
Posted by Jane at 4:58 PM
August 19, 2002
Well the move went pretty well. Jeremy lost a pair of shorts - there was a lovely ripping sound as they split whilst he was bending down to pick up a particularly heavy cabinet. Oops. So now we're established in our new office. We overlook an MOT garage so it's not exactly peaceful, and the smell from the cafe down the corridor is a bit hunger-inducing, but it's a nice place to be. Today we got an ISDN line plugged in but because these are serviced offices, we have to go through the NTL switchboard, which means out BT Anytime service no longer works, so we're back to paying local calls all the time we're connected to the internet. Bah!
Posted by Jane at 5:31 PM
August 14, 2002
Today is office move day. The lads have already left with the first van load, and I'm minding the phones at the moment in our old office. They've already taken my development server away, so I'm left with little else to do but pack more bags and do some web surfing.
Posted by Jane at 9:25 AM
August 12, 2002
The company I used to work for had another culling yesterday and made another 8 people redundant (I was one of the batch who went in November). Hope you guys all find something good to do with your time.
Posted by Jane at 9:30 AM
- again???????????
*sigh*
Posted by monkey on 2002-08-19 06:51:50
We went to Tesco's this evening to do some grocery shopping, and whilst we were picking up some fruit juice I noticed some Disney fruit drink labelled "Roo Juice" with a picture of Kanga and Roo on the front. Poor little roo... Good job they didn't name it after Winnie the Pooh though isn't it
Posted by Jane at 8:38 PM
August 09, 2002
So it's not just me who has a terrible problem with socks.
In other news, tonight we ate in the garden and I actually got to use the phrase "throw another prawn on the barbie". However, I do need to practice my Prawn peeling technique.
Posted by Richard at 8:37 PM
August 08, 2002
I had possibly the most impressive buying-to-delivery online shopping experience the other day. On Wednesday evening I ordered something from Things to Engrave. It was a silverplated item which was to be engraved with a message. This morning, Friday, it arrived. So, that's under one business day to turn it around. I'm really impressed by that.
Posted by Jane at 8:07 AM
August 07, 2002
I've been reading up on the Playstation 3 and in particular how it's going to be able to call up extra computing power to do...well... whatever it needs to do to make games better.
Some people think this "grid computing" is best for big business and academia, and some people think it'll let us run weather forecasts for our own back gardens, but I like the idea for games. But still... I'll believe it when the PS3 ships. I can see how it would help simulations, but I can't see how it'd work to speed up graphics.
Anyway, that's just an intro to my current fave on-line cartoon. Before I give you the link, you need to know something about the cartoon Voltron by reading up on one of the characters and you also need to know that Devastator is a Transformer that's a "bizarre combination of six Constructicons: Scrapper, Scavenger, Bonecrusher, Hook, Long Haul, and Mixmaster". Ok, here's the cartoon.
Posted by Richard at 8:51 AM
August 03, 2002
I went on a business trip to the East End of London the other day, and as we were joining the A2 (I think) down a slip road a guy went hooning past us to get on the road before us. To do this he drove over the pavement slamming the car down the kerb. He passed us okay, but much to our amusement he'd punctured one of his tyres and so had to pull off the road where it appeared he discovered that he had no spare. I admit it, we chuckled at his misfortune.
Posted by Jane at 7:11 PM
- Karma
At last karma has an appropriate effect :)
Posted by missx on 2002-08-12 10:50:27
When you live in a city at the height of summer
We live at the end of a no through road. Every day someone will walk up the street, get to the end, sigh, and walk back down again. It's an easy mistake to make, because all the other roads that run parallel to ours do have an exit.
So I guess it's no surprise that at 2am on Wednesday a panic-stricken man came running up the street, hoping to escape the people who were chasing him. We can only imagine what went through his mind when he realized there was no exit from the street...
His pursuers caught up with him, and proceeded to smash his head against our car and other cars parked at the end of the road. This was all witnessed by our next-door neighbour. I slept right thought it, but Jane says she woke to hear some screaming.
They ran off, probably when they heard the police sirens.
Posted by Richard at 9:27 AM
- Sleeping
Yeah Richard but you managed to sleep through the Ealing bomb-blast.
It woke me up, I didn't know what it was, but it woke me...
Posted by Jane on 2002-08-03 10:57:38
