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December, 2004
31.12.2004 Here be I.
It's new year's eve, so I thought I'd treat you all to a little something. It's a picture… errrm of my desk. BUT! here's the surprise! Click on the pic to go large and see my desk in high res detail with notes about the things on my desk! Are you excited yet…? ;o) 
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29.12.2004 All done for another year.
Phew… thank god that Christmas crap is over and done with for another year. Not that it's been a particularly bad Christmas, but I'm still glad to see the back of it. In fact… I've done quite well out of Christmas this year. The missus treated me to a nice new digital camera for which I'm eternally grateful. It's taken her close to four years but it seems that she's finally starting to take note when I drop hints about stuff that I want.
I feel quite guilty really because she spent considerably more on me that I did on her. I guess I'm actually quite lucky to have such a generous and thoughtful girlfriend. After all… she managed to give me brilliant presents for Xmas and for my birthday as well!
The two of us have been through some pretty rough patches over the years and sometimes it's been tough keeping things together but in retrospect I'm really glad that we have. As soppy as it sounds I really don't know how I ever coped without her in my life. I'm a lucky, lucky guy.
Anyway's… enough of all that soppy stuff… onto the hardware! The missus treated me to a Sony Cybershot DSC-F828 which isn't quite a digital SLR but not a typical consumer camera either. It's what the magazines are referring to as a “prosumer” camera. It's got a shit load of different options n stuff on it and they're proving to be quite a handful to get my head round but I'm getting there slowly but surely.
I'm thinking about going on a weekend intensive photography course or something to learn some of the basics about composition and the different settings on the camera. Plus it should give me a chance to get some brilliant landscape shots as well.
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29.12.2004 Perverts… the lots of ya!
It worries me deeply that today while checking the 2004 Google Zeitgeist, 5 of the top 10 most searched for terms are for famous women. (Britney, Paris, Christina, Pamela and Carmen!). What concerns me even more is that the only two men that have been searched for are Orlando Bloom and Harry Potter! Do modern women have no taste at all?
Sheesh!
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28.12.2004 Filled with Geeky Excitement!
I've just come across the Nvu project (pronounced N-view) and just like Firefox it's got me all filled up with geeky excitement. It seems that they're working on a new open source web design application similar to Dreamweaver etc, only based around the gecko layout engine. Currently available in beta for Windows and Linux flavours (and also has osX and BSD versions in development too!). Apparently based upon the old Mozilla Composer Nvu is apparently going to do for web design what Firefox has done for web browsing - bring an quality, opensource, free solution to the masses.
I think I shall have a download and give it a try. Check it out for yourselves at:
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23.12.2004 Christmas Plug
It's not very often that I'll speak out on behalf of one of my clients and say how much I think their product rocks, but for this client I'll make an exception. RedHotRockShop.com Sell a wicked range of Air Guitar accessories, including giant posters of crowds and speaker stacks as well as a bunch of wicked looking foam air guitars (for when 'air' just isn't enough!).
Check out the website today at http://www.redhotrockshop.com
A perfect gift for pretty much any bloke on the planet!
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23.12.2004 Merry Fucking Christmas!
So it looks like the Christmas time is upon us once again. Joy of joy's. Dunno what's up with me… just can't get into the fooking Christmas spirit at all this year. I guess that's mostly because Crimbo is mostly about spending time with family and all that crap. Only problem being that my mum lives about an hour away ooop north in Staffordshire and my dad lives another 5 or so hours past her in Geordieland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne).
So aside from the missus I'm pretty much on my own this Christmas season. Still… at least I have the mother-in-law's Christmas dinner to look forward too! My experience of dinner at their place has been consistently good every year so that's not so bad. (It could be worse! I could be having dinner at my dad's - all his missus knows how to cook is mince and dumplings!).
Anyway guys, I hope you all have a brilliant Christmas with plenty of booze. And to you people that live in warmer places and have Xmas in the middle of summer. You're all bastards… every single one of ya! ;o)
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20.12.2004 Explosive!
So I finally found a use for that domain name I registered a few months back. Probably not one for people that don't like being insulted. ;o) You have been warned! http://www.bomb.org.uk
(click the current insult if you want to be insulted again!).
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17.12.2004 The Best of 2004
Everyone else seems to be doing it, so here's my top lists for 2004:
Fave 5 Albums of 2004:
- American Idiot - Greenday
- A Hangover You Don't Deserve - Bowling for Soup
- Faithless - Weapons of Mass Destruction
- No Doubt - The Singles 1992-2003
- Papa Roach - Getting Away with Murder
Fave 5 films of 2004:
- Farscape - The Peacekeeper wars (does this count as a film?)
- Alien vs Predator
- Shaun Of The Dead
- I Robot
- 50 First Dates (what can I say… I like Adam Sandler!)
Favourite 5 Blogs:
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17.12.2004 Guess who's back… Back again… Netscape's back. RUN AWAY!
First look at the new netscape browser [via Mozillazine]
All I can say about this is NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NOOOO!! Take it away. We don't want a Netscape browser, especially not when it has an “internet explorer” mode that makes it render like IE! For the love of god, we're trying to get AWAY from the rubbish rendering of IE, that's why people are working so hard to make Firefox popular! Please Netscape… if you really *have* to release a browser don't include any of that Internet Explorer lameness.
Otherwise I'll have to start thinking of Netscape as being a dirty word again.
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16.12.2004 I hate it but I love it.
Evidence seems to be presenting itself to me more and more lately to suggest that Christmas is less about religion and more about economics. Think about it. The nights are drawing in, we only get a few hours of sunlight a day and that's usually hidden by cloud, the weather is lousy. In the UK Winter is a really sucky time of year and it's this point where people are often feeling at their lowest.
Depressed people simply don't work as well because they don't have a motivation to work hard. Why rush when you have nothing to leave for? So how do you lift employees spirits again? Simple! Give people a break from work, Put up lots of bright twinkly lights and tinsel, get them to exchange gifts and encourage them to eat lots of rich food! Easy isn't it?
People head out to the Christmas holidays relieved to have the chance to get out of work for a bit and come back revived and happy. What more could an employer want? I think that's the key… a happy employee works hard therefore a happy employee makes for happy employers.
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