Monthly Archives: September 2005

Five go to Barcelona (and one meets us there)

The five of us (Nic, Martin, Nick, John, myself) left for Barcelona just after 2am on Wednesday morning, travelling to Luton to pick up our EasyJet flight. We arrived in Barcelona just after 10.30am, grabbed a cab and headed over … Continue reading

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Back

Back from Barcelona. Loved it. Details and photos to come. Sleep now. zzzzz

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broken phone

broken phone, originally uploaded by savs.

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early start

early start, originally uploaded by savs. On the way to Luton airport.

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Travel

It’s going to be quiet round here. I’m off to Barcelona (early) tomorrow morning, then next week I’m headed to Zurich, then obviously the GetTogether in the second week of October. Still unsure about EuroOSCON – a lot of money, … Continue reading

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Insanely great

I know it was only a couple of days ago that I was cursing Tiger, but I’m a fickle guy so bear with me as I do an about-face and rant for a while on how great Tiger is. More … Continue reading

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Mobile phones

I recently switched my mobile from Vodafone to O2, moving from a personal contract to a business contract. In doing so I needed to register on the O2 site, and as I did so, I encountered a convoluted nightmare process … Continue reading

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meet thy doom

meet thy doom, originally uploaded by savs. hehehe omfg

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The good old days

Marcus writes about his brief history with computers, and brings up something I remember from my early days, too: The Amiga was another catalyst for me, and I can still remember quite vividly the first time I turned it on, … Continue reading

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Keynote and fading images

I’ve been trying to work out how to nicely fade images into slides in Keynote, like in this example. Unfortunately, there’s no simple way to do it with just Keynote. You can add masks to an image to crop the … Continue reading

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