Prius: It looks like shit but saves the planet.
Prius: Boxy isn’t always good.
Prius: Celebrity endorsement doesn’t mean it’s a good car.
Prius: Average driver age 63.
Prius: Buy one and lose your ability to drive.
Prius: Save the planet and retain your credibility - walk.
Toyota: 30mph on the motorway is quite fast enough in a Prius.
Prius: Designed by [...]
Making the tea after getting home from work, smoking a smoke and pondering my belly-button fluff (cleaned out this morning!) I made two self observations.
One:
When I speak to my Mum I always call her Mum. Always have and always will.
When I speak to my Dad it’s always “buddy”, “mate”, “Dude”, “Get up you lazy [...]
It always gives me pleasure when I get the opportunity to wind up people in the business (not my department of course!) with legitimate cause.
My mission today was to visit one of the business units with a view to printer rationalisation. The business is way over subscribed on printers and in an effort to [...]
Yes, I know it’s a couple of thousand miles from my home, but The Chronicle Herald is reporting that there’s forest fires in two areas of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada right now.
Goat put a message on his Facebook1 profile that said simply
is STILL waiting to hear if his house has burned down…
This Google Map [...]
The Scout Association is looking for a replacement for Peter Duncan as the Chief Scout when his term runs out in 2009.
The Chief Scout is the volunteer Leader of the Scout Movement in the UK. With half-a-million members Scouting is the largest youth movement for girls and boys in the UK, and is part of [...]
Well, I watched it all on the NASA TV feed (whilst working on bits and pieces for MITTS). Lots of technical mumbo jumbo that I couldn’t understand but at 00:56 Phoenix landed n the surface of Mars. Mission Control confirmed that the landing was good and they are in contact with Phoenix.
90 days [...]
I love RSS feeds. For those readers that don’t know what RSS is it’s Really Simple Syndication and is a great way to pick up the latest information from blogs and websites that are regularly updated. I have an RSS for this blog, Mini Mini MIni has an RSS feed, as do websites such [...]
Most people (certainly English) will remember the glory that was the Vulcan bomber:
My personal memories stem from childhood, sitting on the beach (or in the sea) at Lee-on-Solent during the HMS Daedelus Air Day and seeing this hoofing great silent beast flying at me from the Isle of Wight. As it got overhead the [...]
And so is predicted the beginning of a new sport. It’s called (in case you hadn’t guessed) Flash Yer Googles. Preferably only the female of the species will play the game. The rules? Simple! Whenever you see one of Google’s street crawlers (they go round photographing roads for Google Maps) [...]
Lifehacker has an interesting post and poll on shooting your photographs using the RAW image file format.
I have a new series of posts about photography for beginners starting soon where I will talk about things like RAW and JPEG so I won’t go into technicals right now.
Suffice to say that I shoot using the RAW [...]
