Optical Illusion
Just been sent a link to a rather neat optical illusion. http://mightyillusions.blogspot.com/2006/12/happy-kettles.html Very clever.
2006
29 posts
Time to change mobile phones
I’m completely out of my old mobile contract now, any tariff change will result in a contract renewal for 12 or 18 months, and my ‘would-likes’ have changed so the time has come to investigate changing mobile phone providers. I’ve been fairly happy with …
Lori's website
Over the last month we’ve been working on Lori’s new website and it’s all starting to look pretty good. Go and check it out for yourself at www.loriamor.co.uk
Attack of the sprouts!
Just been sent this link. Attack of the Sprouts A fun 5 minute distraction from whatever you’re supposed to be doing.
Free firebox.com voucher
Firebox.com is a site full of really cool gadgets and toys, and just in time for Christmas shopping is an offer from Punch A Celeb for a free 5 pound firebox.com voucher. Simply pick someone to “punch” (or something - I reckon Crazy Frog deserves it) and move the …
Here be monsters!
Harry had a Triop World kit for his birthday. Being the geeks that we are, we decided to setup a webcam next to the tank and capture images every minute or so. On Sunday we added the water and half the pack of eggs and plant waste as instructed. By Monday evening there were quite …
Reading: Aggressor by Andy McNab and The Twelfth Card by Jeffery Deaver
Having finished Nightlord a while back, I’ve since read Andy McNab’s latest - Aggressor. <iframe …
USB rechargable battery
Andrew sent me a link this afternoon to a rather interesting, and very useful, usb device. A battery! Original link - a review at Reg Hardware The manufacturers site - Moxia Energy Ltd
Day trip to Hunstanton
On Saturday, we went to the beach at Hunstanton, Norfolk. It was a nice day and the kids enjoyed playing on the sand. When we arrived, the beach was almost deserted apart from a few people sat on the steps leading down to the sand and a few others walking along the edge of the …
Maize maze pictures
As promised, here are some pictures from the maize maze last weekend. This is the way in.. there are sunflowers all around the edge of the maze so if you can see them, you know you’re heading towards the edge of the maze. The maize itself is about 6-7ft high, and the …
I want one of these...
Caught a brief snippet of this on GeekBrief.TV #0055 but I’ve just found the source of the original video. Go and watch the full video at http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=j_han I wonder how long it’ll be before this kind of interface is available to …
Maize maze - Whitminster
This weekend we went to visit my parents for a couple of days. It was Geordan’s birthday so we did something different and went to see the maize maze in Whitminster designed by Adrian Fisher. It’s a great afternoon out for the kids and it takes about an hour and a …
Reading: Nightlord by Garon Whited
I’ve not long started reading Nightlord by Garon Whited. It’s a vampire story set in the present day and written in the form of a diary with the days forming each chapter. After some initial character development, there’s an interesting twist that allows for the …
Hen Races at Bonsall
We went to the Hen Races at Bonsall yesterday. Yes, it’s what it sounds like… they were racing hens! This is what the track looked like. It was setup in the car park opposite The Barley Mow, Bonsall. Alan Webster, landlord of The Barley Mow organised the hen races …
What I'm reading
Recently I’ve been reading the Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud. I’ve just finished reading book one, The Amulet of Samarkand, and I’m now onto book two, Golem’s Eye. They’re set in and around London, except it’s not the London that we …
.mobi top level domain.. WHY?
Checking my email tonight I found that I’d received an email from a domain registrar regarding “the hot new domain format for mobile web content and services” After having been involved in the .info, .biz and .name launches, all I have to say is.. WHY? Why on …
Blog software upgraded
Following a week of 40-60 spam comments every night, I decided to take the plunge and upgrade. I’ve just upgraded from the old MovableType 2.64 install to 3.2 and then installed the default templates which is why everything looks a little blue compared to the green that I …
Flat tyre
I had my first completely flat tyre yesterday and had to swap it for the spare. In the past it’s always been a slow puncture and I’d been able to get to the petrol station to pump it up again or to the garage to get it replaced before it got completely flat. It took …
Safari and multiple tabs
I was reading Mac Format this morning and read about an application called Taboo that stops you from accidentally closing Safari windows with multiple tabs open, or even quitting Safari when there are multiple tabs open in a window. This is one of the few things that I find …
Art exhibitions
Lori had one of her exhibition openings last night at the Stand Assembly studios as part of a group exhibition called Serious Quirks. More information can be found at the Stand Assembly website. She has another group exhibition opening tonight at Q Arts gallery in Derby. This one …
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Technorati
I was looking at some of my old bookmarks today and came across Technorati. Normally when I bookmark something, I rarely revisit it, and yet the sites I don’t bookmark are normally the ones I want to go back to several weeks later. Anyway, the next post (after this one) is …
What is a "Ding dong server" ?
I was checking the pages on Shartak tonight having recently added some new functionality (a Pirate class) and came across the most bizarre google advert. What on earth is a “Ding Dong Server” ?? I can’t find any reference to it on their site and Google is no …
Greasemonkey
Up until now I’ve normally used Safari when browsing the web on my mac, but today I decided to try something new and installed the latest version of Firefox and an extension called Greasemonkey from http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/. Greasemonkey allows you to run javascript …
Hard disks
I’m utterly amazed at how much hard disk prices have dropped in the last year or two. I was just browsing dabs.com and noticed a 500GB hard disk. I’ve seen disks of that capacity before but the price caught my eye - £195 inc VAT! Maxtor 500GB disk
MediaWiki database compression
Recently I’ve been taking daily backups of a 4.2GB mediawiki (v1.5.6) database, about 3.9GB of which was in the ’text’ table. It was all the previous versions of pages that were taking up the space so having looked at …
Harry and his scooter
We finally managed to find somewhere (JJB Sports) that had the right sized helmet and knee/elbow pads for Harry that didn’t look too childish so today we went to the local park and let him ride on his scooter that he had for Christmas.
Shartak revisited
Following some recent advertising on Urban Dead and the removal of the 300 player limit, Shartak now has over 650 players and things are starting to get interesting.
Shartak
For the last few months I’ve been working on a web-based multiplayer game set on an island where you have to explore, fight animals, and watch out for strangers. It’s an MMORPG similar in style to Urban Dead but with a different theme. The name of both the game and …