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Stuff that’s little and doesn’t fit anywhere else.

Bye Bye Skoda

Feb 3, ’12 11:01 PM
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It’s always sad when you decide to get rid of a car that you’ve enjoyed owning.  Not because it’s no good, but because your needs have changed.  And the biggest problem was that we’re now parents to one growing toddler and another relatively new baby. Which nearly did my back in.  Both the Skoda and…
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2011′s Nearly Over

Dec 15, ’11 5:29 PM
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So I thought I’d do a Wordle to see what figured highly on this blog. It’s probably no surprise that the two dominant words here are Conrad and Kolya!  No bad thing – they’re my two amazing, wonderful kids.  It’s been quite a tough year in terms of time and effort.  Business continues as it…
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Do You Need an SLR?

Nov 3, ’11 2:50 PM
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OK, I’ve always said that you don’t need a fancy camera to take good pictures.  All that a good camera does is add flexibility and choice, but so long as there’s a decent amount of light (and even then, not necessarily that much) a compact or a smartphone camera could well be adequate. This lunchtime…
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Las Palmas – Drunken Toddler

Oct 16, ’11 8:01 PM

Ever thought that toddlers act like drunk small people? The way the embed works is a bit rubbish, sorry, but the film’s worth it :-)
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Into the Sea!

Jul 19, ’11 1:20 PM
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Last month we enjoyed a number of visitors.  One family to come were Adrian and Ania, Igor and Mikolaj – this is great for Conrad as he loves other children, with Igor being four years and Mikoaj nine months old. In fact, it’s hard to describe the delight from Conrad when he’s got a four…
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Blog “Reboot”

Jul 10, ’11 8:10 PM

Hello – here’s the refreshed blog. I’ve decided to revert to a more typical blog format, after many months of soul searching on the issue. I previously had a layout based on a framework we used at interconnect/it for a couple of clients But not only have I opted to switch to a blog layout,…
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Thinking Digital University (2011)

May 24, ’11 11:54 PM
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So, here I am again at Thinking Digital.  Only this time I’m no longer driving the seemingly doomed Golf TDI I had last year that did one of it’s self destruction tricks en-route.  Consequently I’m not missing out on the workshops here. In fact, I’m doing better than that – an additional workshop was added…
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Homage to Beatrice Warde or a bad idea?

May 17, ’11 11:22 AM
With a hat-tip to Beatrice Warde

I recently saw in the book “Just My Type” by Simon Garfield a poster by Beatrice Warde, the famous American born typographer who spent much of her career in the UK*.  There seem to be many variations of typesetting for the poster, so I’ve no idea if she designed one herself or if it was…
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Freedom of Information is Abused

Mar 12, ’11 11:00 PM

In 2000 in the UK, the Freedom of Information Act gave us all the ‘right to know’ what our public bodies were up to.  We can ask for information about a huge range of items, and it’s a great idea.  Information should, in my view, be as open and transparent as possible. But there’s a…
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New Spectacu.la Discussion Updates

Sep 22, ’10 1:01 PM

My colleague James has been extending the threaded comments plugin that I use on this site.  It’s available from http://svn.wp-plugins.org/spectacula-threaded-comments/trunk for those of you with SVN clients, and for download and easy installation from WordPress.org and Spectacu.la within a few days. If you wish to test it out, feel free to comment here… It adds…
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