December 2006 Archives
Today has ended up being a day spent on the Mac.
First off, I uploaded photos of our somewhat solitary but very relaxed and enjoyable Christmas Day (dinner and presents) to Flickr and activated my Pro Account renewal gift token from Phil. Next I set about geotagging my Flickr photos as far as possible. London, Walton and Herefordshire proved relatively straightforward, but lack of decent map data for Pakistan's North West Frontier Province and Northern Areas proved an insurmountable barrier to geotagging my Hindu Kush Adventure photos, and I suspect that all of my non-Yalta Crimea pics are far from accurately located..... Indeed I do have to gripe about the map functionality generally: why does the map move so far/fast when you click the left/right/up/down arrows? How do you stop the map moving when you spot the location you need? Why let you search for a location and then not pinpoint its coordinates when you click through to the map - eg Foros, Crimea, Ukraine?
After a break for lunch, I thought I might as well join the merry Twitter throng. Having spent the Christmas holiday in the constant company of Phil's buzzing treo - aka altering Phil and his nearest and dearest to the arrival of a new Twitter from one of his friends - it was an obvious move. Quite how I'll fit it into my work day, I can't imagine. In fact, I suspect that it will turn out somewhat similar to my Haddock-ing, catching up at the end of the day.
Last but not least, I tweaked the SparklyTrainers templates, to include four random Flickr pics on the homepage, to update the link to Sparkly Trainers >> Photos so that I now goes to Flickr rather than Fotopic and to change the colour scheme for Sparkly Trainers >> Reading (and added entries for my Christmas reading so far).
Yes, it's the week before Christmas which means the annual festive night out with Rachel and the now traditional karaoke-fest at Zyrus on Clerkenwell Road. Emo kids eat your hearts out, this is where 80's power ballads and rock anthems rule. Brilliant. Glad I only had to manage a half day today mind you....
I finally made the change from black&purple to white&red, courtesy Phil and his ace CSS skillz.
Still wondering if perhaps I shouldn't have gone for a sunshine shade of orange instead of the red, to match with the background colour in Phil's photo of me......
A lovely weekend - after a very successful DIY pizza lunch with TJBR we all headed over to the Barbican to watch the matinee performance of Dick Whittington, which was good although I wasn't too sure how much the Dame enjoyed herself. Back to base for tea and cake.
On Sunday, Phil's mum and dad came round for a traditional Sunday roast - a nice excuse for a roast chicken with all the trimmings. Paul joined us as he was going to see In the Face of History - European Photographers in the 20th Century. Between the five of us (four meat-eaters) we managed to get through a couple of platefuls each and still had some remains for leftovers. A lovely day.