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Sprouting Bean

Monday, 18. May 2009, 17:22:16

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After a brief exchange with FB on twitter today, I realised that I've been pretty poor at posting new pictures of Holly. I'm never sure how interested people actually are of seeing copious amounts of photos (and we take a lot), and so I've never been very active in uploading them.

Wifety, on the other hand, is very good, and her Facebook albums are full to the brim :D I'm going to make amends, somewhat, and I've stated a web album on Picasa. This will sync, with any new photos that I place in the folder on my laptop, so it will hopefully be easier to keep up-to-date.

My plan, although a little cliché, is to take and upload a picture of Holly everyday (or at least as close to that as possible). The danger is that, as I really only see Holly before work (when she's eating breakfast), or after work (when's she's eating dinner), they will all be pictures of her eating! Ah well, at least she takes after her old man :smile:

I've tried to go through the photos I already have, and choose one, or two to add to the album from each day we have taken photos of Holly so far. I can email pics from my phone, so I'm hoping that it will build into a nice collection. It's already scary to see how much she's changed in such a few months!

You can see for yourself... read on to see the slide show!

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The Charming Monkey

Thursday, 22. February 2007, 14:15:45

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After playing Hotel Dusk Room 215 on the DS recently, I've become quite interested in Noir fiction. I already tried my hand at it (albeit in a tongue in cheek way) in the prologue to my review of the game. I really enjoyed writing that so much, so I'm going to attempt at writing a bit more. My plan is to write a story on my blog. I guess it's not going to be true Noir as I don't intend on it being that dark. A lighter Noir, if you will. A kind of Gris. I have a few ideas about the plot and characters, but I haven't planned that much of the story. I'm going to see where it takes me - it's a bit of an adventure.

The various parts can be reached via the links below (hit read more), and hopefully I'll be adding to it on a regular occasion. I have no doubt that there'll be the odd cliché, and it's very much a work in progress. Oh and a big thanks to JKing for the awesome CSS help!

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Happy Burpday To Me!

Wednesday, 8. July 2009, 05:58:11


Cake by Wifety

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The Incredible Levitating Baby

Saturday, 6. June 2009, 16:38:19

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Holly 1 - Wifety 0

Tuesday, 26. May 2009, 18:24:42

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The Perfect Match

Thursday, 7. May 2009, 20:06:39

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Today I was going through some files on my computer, and I stumbled accross a screenplay I wrote back in 2005. My sister had set up a film company, and was after short film scripts. I thought I'd give it a bash, but never got around to showing it to her.

Anyhoo, as I was reading it again (it's not great - it was my first, and only attempt at writing a screenplay), I realised that one of the characters is called Holly. I'm not sure if this had any influence over my daughter's name, but it made me smile. I've always like the name, but it just threw me a bit.

As it's been sitting on my hard drive for 4 years, I guess I should really post it - at least that way someone might actually read it!

So, without further ado, here it is!

EDIT: Apparently that link is causing difficulties, so try this one, if that's the case.

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Life's Little Pleasures #586 - GPSed

Sunday, 21. December 2008, 16:43:59

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Those following me on Twitter will have noticed my new obsession, GPSed.com. The GPS on my phone is actually pretty good, and I've started to discover some decent applications that make use of it.

With GPSed not only can you post your current position to Twitter, and other networking sites sites (a lazy man's Plazes, if you will), but you can also save the journeys you make.

These can then be uploaded to the site and displayed in all their glory on Google Maps. Whilst these are probably of limited interest to anyone, I can't help being impressed. It's a simple process, and when you upload your journey to Google Earth to see it in glorious 3D, it's very cool.

There are some problems, however. Apparently I did this journey at an average speed of 75mph, which is impressive, seeing as I was stuck in traffic most of the way. My manic driving might explain the manner in which I tackled the roundabout above...

I guess it's mainly meant for walks, and it does work better on pedestrian journeys. It also makes use of the geotagging feature of my phone, so it can pin pictures I take along the way to the map.

It's a very nice idea, and although I have some security concerns (maybe I shouldn't be displaying my movement in such a public manner), I'm very impressed with it.

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New Holly Pics! Holly at Christmas

Thursday, 11. December 2008, 20:49:18

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I think my camera's going to be very busy over the festive period. It was inevitable that I'd have to open up a new album to accommodate all the photos.

Well, she is the cutest baby EVER (even if I say so myself :wink: )

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Life's Little Pleasures #572 - Upgrading my mobile phone

Sunday, 30. November 2008, 14:22:50

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It's that time again when I get to upgrade my phone, and after much thought I've gone for the Sony Ericsson C905. As I have an iPod Touch, I didn't think it would be worthing getting an iPhone, or similar, and the lure of the 8.1 mega-pixel camera, Wi-Fi, and GPS was too much to resist. And hey, I'm a Sony Ericsson lover, and it would take a lot for me to look somewhere else.

First impressions are good - the camera is great, though obviously not as good as a stand alone camera with a decent lens. Not only are the photos of high quality, but the video is nice and smooth. I had contemplated getting a video camera, but I won't bother now, as the C905 does the job very well. I have noticed that due to the size of the photos, when they get compressed for media messages, they become pretty unusable. This is putting a dent in my Twitpic addiction, and I'm not sure there's a way around this without taking the photos in a lower resolution, which kind of defeats the object of getting this phone...

The phone does link well with Blogger, and I may have to start using this for posting photos and videos from my phone. You can add other blogs to the phone, but it doesn't seem to like MyOpera :frown: It just sends it an MMS (which has arrived at the time of writing this post), and as my MyOpera cannot remove the operator message, I'm reluctant to do this.

The Wi-Fi on the C905 is excellent, and using Opera Mini with it is superb. The GPS, on the other hand, is not so good, and it doesn't help that the Java version of Google Maps doesn't seem to be compatible with it. It appears to be a known issue, so hopefully there'll be an update to fix this at some point. I didn't expect much from the GPS, but at the moment I'm struggling to see that it'll be useful at all!

Apart from a few niggles, I'm happy with the choice. The camera alone makes it worthwhile for me, as I'm finding myself wanting to take my camera with me more and more. This way, I can carry less, and still take some decent pics. Hopefully the GPS will improve, but this phone should keep me going for a while!

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Life's Little Pleasures #536 - Feeling Proud of MyOpera

Friday, 28. November 2008, 08:20:59

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Last night I blogged about trutap, which I discovered on my mobile. When I saw that it was compatible with MyOpera, a smiled a little. It's not often that you see MyOpera listed with the big guns of the blogging world, which is a shame as it's by far the best blogging platform that I've come accross.

When I checked trutap's features page and saw the little MyOpera logo among the "top blogs" list (and highlighted in the screenshot no less), I couldn't help but feeel proud. I like to think that it shows how far MyOpera has come in the last few years.

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Testing trutap

Thursday, 27. November 2008, 21:53:07

I've stumbled across a mobile phone application called Trutap, which lets you blog to MyOpera through it. Marvellous!

Sent from my phone using trutap

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Life's Little Annoyances #470 - Having Too Many Nicknames For Holly

Monday, 10. November 2008, 21:03:42

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So far we have:

  • Bean
  • Beany
  • Hollybean
  • Ickle Pickle
  • Icky Picky
  • Icky Von Picky ,shortened to
  • Icky Von
  • Icky McPicky
  • Ickster
  • Grumple Stiltskin (when she's in a mood)

I get a bit carried away :frown:

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Life's Little Pleasures #521 - Contemplating Opera Guerrilla Marketing

Wednesday, 29. October 2008, 18:31:59

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I saw this pic on Idiot Toys, and thought that it needed a lick of red paint. Who's up for a trip to Grizedale Forest? :wink:

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Life's Little Pleasures #502 - The Joys Of Fatherhood

Tuesday, 21. October 2008, 19:50:35

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Life's Little Pleasures #501 - Having Wolverine Hair In The Morning

Tuesday, 21. October 2008, 19:49:24

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