5 May, 2008
Photos From the Aintree Spring Sprint 2008
I’m not going to be challenging for anything much this year, but on April 26th I ambled along to the Aintree Spring Sprint and took some snaps. A selection of them are available here. Use them as you like, but don’t remove the tag. If you’d like to receive a higher quality image, just let […]
30 April, 2008
Aintree Spring Sprint 2008
Each year, Liverpool Motor Club holds three sprints at the classic Aintree circuit. It’s a relaxed, sociable and efficient event. I always thought TVR’s finest moment was the Cerbera – a combination of classic low-rider looks, power, and noise. Still handled badly, but that can largely be sorted out. It was great to see everyone […]
15 April, 2008
Hong Kong
It’s a funny place, Hong Kong… it could be really depressing, crowded and scary. But it’s just stunning. In spite of all those people living so close together there are still places to find quiet contemplation away from the bustle.
3 April, 2008
Santa Catalina Convent, Arequipa
The water looks dirty, but isn’t. You can see the goldfish clearly enough after all. The Santa Catalina Convent in Arequipa is an astonishing city within a city. In spite of the noise and bustle of the city outside, it manages to maintain a quiet calm. The nuns who lived here (and a small number […]
I Like It Low
I couldn’t believe how big this guy’s paintings were. Seems that as he got older his eyesight deteriorated. His solution? Paint so that at least he could see what he was doing! I believe this painting is by Andy Warhol. But I’m culturally dumb, so can’t rely on my memory. What I do know […]
Road to Bolivia
This photo is on the main road from North Chile to Bolivia as it heads through Chile’s Lauca National Park. This is the nice and easy part – it seems that once in Bolivia the road deteriorates significantly in quality and safety. Just a few weeks after I took this picture a minibus full of […]
2 April, 2008
Valle de la Luna
Ok, first shot to go up on the photoblog*. I’ve decided to leave it up even though it’s a relatively poor quality re-size. However, I feel it still illustrates the beauty and scale of this location. Here we are, perhaps 1000m above the valley floor below. Priscilla, who I’d just met on this part of […]
27 March, 2008
He Used to Look So Babyfaced
Poor old Pete Doherty – drugs, partying and too many pies seem to have taken their toll. He used to look so babyfaced…
27 February, 2008
Earthquake in Liverpool
When my bed shakes enthusiastically I tend to assume that something’s going well… but this time I was woken by the clatter of a radio wobbling on the sideboard at 1am this morning. When you wake up to an earthquake you don’t really understand what’s happening at first. There’s a bit of noise as things […]
18 February, 2008
20 January, 2008
Stop Whinging and Learn to Drive
Sorry David Coulthard, but when I saw this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7191512.stm I saw red. I mean, apart from some of his astonishingly patronising comments directed towards younger drivers, he did nothing but confirm that his F1 career has been a long period of journeyman mistakes. His ability to spin off during warm up laps was once something […]
17 January, 2008
Geek Joy!
One of the nicest things about modern tech is its ability to update itself. A while back my PVR overnight gave itself lots of lovely features. And today, my iPhone updated itself with some interesting new features when it went to version 1.1.3.
1 January, 2008
Bless him…
2008 kinda started on a low today… We we’re doing a spot of leafleting for Romana’s French teaching today when I walked up one drive and saw a tabby sleeping near the back of a car. I dropped the leaflet off, walked back, but noticed the cat seemed rather still. So I went back, knocked […]
28 December, 2007
Really Sorry
So it’s been a bit quiet on here of late. In part it’s because of the extra work being put into the business and house of late. I haven’t been sprinting so much, and I’ve been doing a lot of playing with technology. What blogging I have been doing has been on the A Liverpool […]
18 November, 2007
So now I’m on Facebook I Want a Blog Connection…
It makes sense, if you think about it – why duplicate data in two places? So in went the Wordbook plugin for WordPress, and then the Facebook application onto my profile. This post, really, is to see if it’s a success – does my blog here appear in my profile? And so it does! Woo! […]
4 November, 2007
Liverpool Web Designer
Just a little plug, really, to mention that if you’re interested in an unofficial, casual and behind-the-scenes look at the work we carry out at Interconnect IT, along with opinions on the market, head on over to the blog entitled Liverpool Web Designer. It’s hosted at WordPress.com a rather wonderful blogging site that lets you […]
20 October, 2007
Are Muslims the New Jews?
A lot of the Middle East is progressive, modern and sophisticated. You have freedoms and rights, life is good and so on. Yet some selective reporting does a fair bit of damage to the image we have of them. If you saw such selective views of the West, we wouldn’t look good either.I was a […]
8 October, 2007
Web Design in Liverpool
As some of you may know – I work for, and for that matter, head up, a small web consultancy in Liverpool. The company’s Interconnect IT It’s a funny business, working the web. We know all sorts of cool stuff to make things work very well for clients, but persuading them of this is proving […]
3 October, 2007
Interconnect IT
Ok, so you’ll see a new category now under the Asides category. That of ‘The Company.’ And what’s it going to be about? Well, it’s going to cover the tribulations, stresses and joys of building up our web design company, Interconnect IT. The updates won’t necessarily be regular, lucid or sane, but they might be […]
2 October, 2007
Halton Bathrooms
So – the experiment worked. I’m now second on any Google search for Halton Bathrooms. And front page for Widnes and Runcorn Bathroom searches. So what does this mean? Well it shows the power of a:having what’s considered a trusted site with no spam, a long history, and plenty of content and b:the benefit of […]
25 September, 2007
Badminton Near Warrington
I’ve been telling anyone who’ll listen that having a web presence is free and simple, and doesn’t need to be opaque to the search engines. It can be standards compliant, easy to find, and well structured. You can change the content as and when you like. You can add pictures and so on. And it’s […]
Hillclimb and Sprint Photography
I don’t often mention other sites, but that’s more because I’m lazy and don’t do my research, rather than any intent to ignore. But I can’t ignore Gary Thomas’s new sprint and hillclimb photo site. He takes some cracking pictures of the sprint scene and shows them off at his photo site yourftd.com where you […]