Month: December 2011

  • Christmas wishes for around the home

    Things I would have liked to have put on my Christmas list: Vintage Camera Pillows Found on www.swiss-miss.com/2011/12/vintage-camera-pillows.html and originally from  www.etsy.com/listing/83835293/vintage-amica-eyelux-camera-canvas?ref=fp_treasury_12 PicNYC Table Found on www.likecool.com/picNYC_TABLE–Furniture–Home.html and originally from www.haikocornelissen.com/work/picnyc-table/ Table and chairs cabinet Found on www.likecool.com/Transformer_chest_has_two_chairs_and_a_table–Furniture–Home.html and originally fromclaudiosibille.com/ludovico.php

  • 6 Music Shout Out

    Here is a clip from Friday 16 December’s 6 Music breakfast show where Shaun Keavney reads out some middle aged shout outs. This one is for my brother who became a dad the day before: Download clip

  • Inventive spam

    Here’s a some recent spam comments which have caught my eye: In response to A cold winter evening at Brisbane Road: Hey There Blog, Maybe a little off topic, however, its not even the middle of winter and its already getting to 5°C… Kindest Regards In response to How tech giants deal with dissent: lovely…

  • Opening titles – making the effort.

    Good to see some real thought and imagination put into the opening titles on Game of Thrones: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7L2PVdrb_8[/youtube] As opposed to another recent TV favourite of mine, Fringe, is pretty dull: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-daL35AIQpw&hd=1[/youtube]

  • Playing about with flavours.me

    Today I resurrected an account with flavours.me after a launch of Version 2 last week. As a social portfolio it does very well. The only obvious account mising for me was de.licio.us but apart from that all the usual suspects were there along with the ability to add your own RSS feeds. You get a selection of designs…