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Even though Autumn
started on September 22nd with the
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumnal_equinox">Autumn Equinox
, last night marked
the end of the Summer with the last Poole Quay fireworks. As expected, it turned out to be
an excuse to let off all the fireworks left over from the earlier shows and ended up being
rather spectacular.
Time to find something new to do on a Thursday
night!
Fireworks photo provided by
href="http://www.bigfoto.com">bigfoto
.
I’ve
added two demonstration pages to my web
design page. These aren’t pages that I’ve been asked to create for anyone, but are
simply new and different designs using existing and new information to fill out my design
portfolio a little.
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“Can I help you
sir?”
“Yes, I’d like a set of
href="http://www.harmanmultimedia.com">Harman/Kardon
Soundsticks please.”
If
only I could say that, because these are my number #1 most wanted item right now. I had
the pleasure of listening to a set over the weekend and they make my 5.1 Creative speakers
sound just a little bit rubbish. They also look quite shiny.
Now where’s that
spare £100 I hid for a rainy day…
Some time ago (I can’t remember
when), I produced a demonstration of using Cascading Style Sheets (css) to format webpages.
The demonstration consisted of a single html file which could have four different designs
applied to it by using four different style sheets. The idea was to show how great using
css was, so it was a shame that it disappeared when I changed this
site.
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Many of you
may know that I seem to love just about everything that
href="http://www.mathmos.co.uk">mathmos
produce, as my lavalamp and numerous other
lights show. So I thought I’d show you all the newest mathmos creation, the ’solar
eclipse’. If it weren’t for a number of other equally shiny but more expensive objects
that I’d really quite like, I might buy one, then wonder where I’d put it.
I seem to remember a time (back in
the day) when here in Wareham, a doctor would come out to you if you were too ill to go to
them and the surgery was open on a Saturday morning for ‘emergency’ cases. Alas no more,
but there must still be some money in the system, as the following paragraph from the
Autumn ‘Wareham Surgery Newsletter’ suggests:
“To reduce the queues at
reception we will shortly be introducing a new system for checking in when you arrive at
the surgery for an appointment. The Automated Arrivals System involves a touch sensitive
screen and scanning of your fingerprint!”
So when I next need to see
the doctor I won’t have to tell the receptionist I’ve arrived, but simply have my
fingerprint scanned to tell the system I’m there. Just two points, firstly, the vast
majority of the surgery’s visitors are elderly and may therefore not understand the
concept (in which case they can check in at reception as usual, therfore making the system
pointless) and secondly, the sceptic in me would ask who else might subsequently have
access to my fingerprint.
…but I’ve just had my first mince pie of
the season! Blame tesco for stocking them so early. That said, the pack is best before
27th October, so perhaps Christmas is coming early this year!
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Last week the Mercury
Music Prize was awarded to Antony and the Johnsons for the album ‘I am a Bird Now’. I
was going to write a post about how this was undeserved and that yet again the judges had
gone for the obscure. However as I already had half of the nominated albums (Coldplay, KT
Tunstall, Kaiser Chiefs, Magic Numbers, Hard-Fi & Bloc Party), I though I’d have to listen
to at least the winner to try and understand why none of my ‘favourites’ managed to
win.
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It is always strange to want the result to be
draw,
it’s even stranger to want it to rain,
but we did…
…and it was
so,
and thus England regained the ashes.
Hurrah!
The screenshot above is from a little application called coverflow. Coverflow allows you to browse your mp3 collection, not by looking at a huge long list of titles or playlists, but by browsing through the album covers. You can flip through the complete collection, or search for a subset of albums. It’s great, and it’s only for the mac, you lucky lot.
I’ve written this entry, instead of writing about the new iPod Nano, which apparently everyone in the whole world is blogging about. Needless to say I want one, and needless to say that I can’t afford it, especially as I quit my job this morning. Hmm.
If we’d have
known this yesterday, we’d have won the tie break and therefore the pub quiz picture
round… damn.
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The Toyota Prius, with
it’s hybrid electric motor and petrol engine is billed as an environmentally friendly car
of the future. However, I’ve never liked them or the idea behind them and seeing that
there seem to be an awful lot around at the moment, I’d describe in my own words, why you
shouldn’t want buy one*…
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Can you feel it? The nights are drawing in. There’s a
chill in the air (especially in the morning). The
href="http://www.leaves.tv">leaves
are starting to fall off the trees. Who knows what
other changes may be afoot…
