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Four months since I last made an update! Maybe twitter really is killing the blog? I think that in the not to distant future this blog might be subjected to the mighty powers of “rm -r -f /home/blog*” In the meantime I’ll leave this here:

I’m getting very tardy here lately. 12 days since I last posted something and even then that was mainly a copy and paste job. I could write about the weather but we have been relatively lucky down here. I’m beginning to think the town is radioactive because it was snowing everywhere within a two mile [...]

Can anyone solve the riddle below? No prizes unfortunately. Originally came via an email but I Photoshopped™®  it slightly.

As illnesses go the flu is a nasty bugger. I haven’t had it myself in years as I used to get regular vaccinations at work. So for the first time in years and for exactly a week now I have been freezing cold one minute, roasting the next. I’ve been shaking, coughing and wheezing. Unable [...]

Two short videos. Make sure to watch them in order! Number 1: And number two:

Now that things have finally settled down I can finally get around to getting a lot of the things I had planned for my summer holidays done. First up was to try to aggregate all my online presences from Twitter, Flickr Last.FM etc. I was considering using FriendFeed but since I’ve recently been extolling the [...]

After months of resisting and pretending it didn’t exist I finally signed up for Twitter. All the fears that I had before that discouraged me from signing up before have been realised. I’m flaming addicted to it. At the moment it is probably the novelty factor but that novelty factor has led me to install [...]

I’ve been playing around with Photoshop over the last couple of days. It’s a monumental application and with a rather steep learning curve. For me at least, I find CS3 is no where near as user friendly as any of the earlier editions. Nevertheless, rather than use it for processing and editing photos, I decided [...]