Seen in a near-by street: "Lost! One Penny. Circular and copper coloured. Last seen in my pocket. If found please pick it up and enjoy good luck that follows".
Posted by Richard at 2:28 PMApril 26, 2005
Seen in a near-by street: "Lost! One Penny. Circular and copper coloured. Last seen in my pocket. If found please pick it up and enjoy good luck that follows".
Posted by Richard at 2:28 PM
We were on the beach last night, and the tide was a long way out. Further out than I'd seen it for a long time, and as a result we could get close (1280x1024 image) to the West Pier. There was an artist out at work, creating circles of various sizes in the sand. Why? Don't know. Why not.
Others were out cockling. We think. Well, they were digging holes in the sand. And yes, that's right, sand. There is sand out there.
Posted by Richard at 8:37 PM
- West Pier Image
Do you not think the close up is very war of the worlds.
Posted by Jono on 2005-04-30 10:08:51
April 20, 2005
I was having a browse around iPod Hacks over lunch and spotted a couple of Shuffle protectors - the Griffin iVault (a bit hard core for me) and Wrappers (my favourite is sunflower). Currently I don't have a cover for my shuffle, although we do have an eVo iSkin for our main iPod.
Posted by Jane at 1:35 PM
- More birthday gifts
Our friends Jeremy and Kirsty very kindly bought me one of the Sport Cases for my shuffle so that should keep it nice and clean :-)
Posted by Jane on 2005-04-30 12:35:50
- Shufflesome
I've recently been pointed at Shufflesome who have some interesting looking sticker packs (or outfits as they seem to be known on the site) for the iPod Shuffle.
"An outfit is a set of teflon coated vinyl stickers tailored to cover the front, back and sides of the iPod shuffle, both for combination with the USB cap and the lanyard USB cap."
Posted by Jane on 2005-06-22 10:29:23
We've recently come across the Freebord - it looks like an interesting design, and the videos make it look like a really close match to snowboarding in style. We haven't invested in one yet, but it is pretty tempting.
Posted by Jane at 5:53 PM
- We now own one...
or at least I do. Richard bought me one for my birthday. We haven't attached the skyhooks (bindings) yet, but when we do we'll be off looking for gentle slopes to start learning on.
More progress reports if we survive
Posted by Jane on 2005-04-30 12:32:38
April 16, 2005
So, we've seen our last real snow (I think) for the season, and finished with a great long weekend in Chatel one of the resorts in the Portes Du Soleil area. We were really lucky and snow fell the day we travelled and on our first day on the slopes and refreshed some otherwise struggling pistes. We spent one day in the Linga and Pré-la-Joux areas (a great, if low-visibility day), another day in the Lindaret area of Avoriaz (our favourite area when we were there at New Year) and our final half day in Super Chatel (limited terrain but great for practicing riding switch). Perversely enough, this was amongst the best snow we've had in any of our three trips this season despite it being almost the end of season.
Posted by Jane at 5:34 PM
April 14, 2005
We are going up I say we are going up. Oh yeah!
We looked at the league tables on Vodafone Live at 5pm, and the tables hadn't been updated. So we didn't know until the BBC told us that Hull have been promoted into the Championship. I had to pause TiVo and rewind to make sure I'd heard right!
Using the tried and trusted maths of "messing with the equations until it looks right" we predict Hull to be top of the Prem by 2017. But more pressingly, we need Brighton to stay up so we can go watch Hull play them next year.
Two promotions in two years. All together now: "One more! We only want one more...."
Labels: hull city
Posted by Richard at 9:39 PM
It would be cool to have a secret tunnel to the beach from our house.
Posted by Richard at 3:40 PM
April 13, 2005
What's the difference between Wikipedia and h2g2? Reading up on the thinking behind the creation of h2g2 makes it sounds rather more exciting than those behind Wikipedia (even though someone has provided a mobile interface for Wikipedia now).
Of course you can lookup the Wikipedia entry for h2g2, and visa versa. But only h2g2 has an entry comparing both.
Posted by Richard at 2:52 PM
April 12, 2005
Cathy T was kind enough to pass on the URL for 10x10. It's not without it's problems, but it's cute. Much cuter than that thing I did a while back.
Posted by Richard at 8:52 PM
- montage-a-google
Same idea
http://grant.robinson.name/projects/montage-a-google/
Posted by Jono on 2005-05-01 12:25:43
Spring Snowboarding in the Portes du Soleil
Posted by Jane at 10:15 PM
April 05, 2005
Due to a combination of a small hardware failure and a large amount of user error, I ended up in a situation where our home server RAID5 disk array was hosed and our backup disk was failing to respond. It was looking like we'd have to go back to month old CD backups... but it didn't turn out that way. So thanks to:
- GND - I bought the server from these people over three years ago at Dave's suggestion. Turned out to be good advice. There was something about the Linux set up I didn't understand. I dropped them an email, and a few days later I received a phone call from a technical guy, full of knowledge of how my machine was set up, and that helped me work out how to get the machine back. Great customer service.
- TestDisk - let's say, hypothetically, while installing an operating system on one set of disks, you'd managed to corrupt the partition table of a different, and perfectly good, set of disk. Once you get past the "where did my data go?" shock, what do you do? Use TestDisk to fix the problem.
BTW, if you decide to have an off-site back up disk in your car, check the disk tolerance before you leave the disk in a car park in Heathrow during double-digit negative temperatures. At one point I looked into professional data recovery services to get the data off this disk. We didn't need the service in the end, but Data Recovery UK were fast and friendly and quoted me £85 to perform an initial investigation on this 120G IDE backup drive. It'd then cost £350 - £900 to recover the data. Which I thought was fair enough, assuming you value the data.
Posted by Richard at 8:40 PM
I've finally got around to sorting out the Canada photos
Posted by Jane at 9:03 PM
April 04, 2005
What a surprise
The election has been called for 5th May, who'd have thought it... Some of the people in my office have already had their polling cards through. The BBC have a decent looking Issues guide to help compare the policies on offer from Labour, the Conservatives, the Lib Dems, Green and UKIP.
Posted by Jane at 2:26 PM
- The BBC also have a nice quick summary of how the election works.
And Wired gives us the pros and cons of different voting systems
Posted by Richard on 2005-04-06 16:09:48
- Who Should You Vote for?
I used something like this (http://www.whoshouldyouvotefor.com/) a few years ago to help work out who to vote for - you're asked a series (23) of multiple choice questions and based on your answers it will make a suggestion on who you should vote for. Makes for interesting reading.
Posted by Jane on 2005-04-15 18:36:59
April 01, 2005
We spent Saturday afternoon helping Richard's Godson James celebrate his 4th birthday in the play area at the Ock 'n' Dough pub in Wellingborough. We stayed with him and his family overnight, and after the boys had gone to bed, ordered a takeaway from Deans Caribbean Cuisine which was really tasty, and a complete change for me as I think the only Caribbean food I've had before has been at the Notting Hill Carnival many years ago. Now I'm going to have to investigate the Caribbean food options in Brighton...
Posted by Jane at 7:56 AM
We caught up on a bit of Tivo'd tv last night, and watched A place in the Sun which was about a lady contemplating the move to Auckland, New Zealand. This was the move that we considered in 2001 and rejected on the grounds that we would be cutting ourselves off from friends and family as a lot of people seemed to be having children at this time and that was really going to prevent most people from visiting us. Also all of our holiday allowance would end up being spent travelling back to the UK to see family and friends and this would stop us making the most of our opportunities in a new country. Interestingly, the lady on the programme also ended up staying in the UK for family reasons.
It got me thinking about our choice, instead of moving to Auckland we moved to Brighton (lots more outdoor living opportunities than Ealing had. although admittedly not the climate that Auckland has) and this has worked out really well for us. I'd still like to go on a long visit to New Zealand to experience it properly though.
Posted by Jane at 8:28 AM
A few years ago, the guy who throws bottles off the pier would probably have received venture capital investment for his web site.
Posted by Richard at 8:16 AM
