http://www.livestrong.com/video/5348-team-mellow-johnnys-tour-gila
Video taken on the tour bus on the way to stage 1 of the tour of the gila.
Wednesday 29 April 2009
Sunday 26 April 2009
The Glos and The Gate
Yesterday I went to watch Gloucester down at London Wasps. They were appalling. 34-3 and it could have been worse! Lets just hope Portsmouth are better in the footy at Newcastle on Monday.
The nice thing about rugby is that the players arrive and park outside the ground much like the staff and then they are happy to sign stuff for a while before they go in.
In better news. We finished the gate the other weekend and here is a nice photo of it in situ in our nice sunny garden this morning.
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The nice thing about rugby is that the players arrive and park outside the ground much like the staff and then they are happy to sign stuff for a while before they go in.
In better news. We finished the gate the other weekend and here is a nice photo of it in situ in our nice sunny garden this morning.
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Tuesday 21 April 2009
the hub videos
Last night I created and uploaded the first of 3 or 4 technical videos about my new admin hub. I wrote it to firstly have a single point of entry for all of my sites. This includes facebook, twitter, flickr, my blog and my forum. From this one site I am able to upload images and post to all my sites at once via various APIs.
The first video just shows the website working and over the next few I will go into the code behind.
Technical Blog
What has become apparant, as a bonus, is that it means I can access these sites from work where normally they are blocked. Which is nice.
As my lovely wife is having a well earned early night I may well create and upload the second vid tonight.
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The first video just shows the website working and over the next few I will go into the code behind.
Technical Blog
What has become apparant, as a bonus, is that it means I can access these sites from work where normally they are blocked. Which is nice.
As my lovely wife is having a well earned early night I may well create and upload the second vid tonight.
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Thursday 16 April 2009
my ill boy
Babies are so fragile when they are ill. We recon Alfie must have lost 1lb so far already and he has only been ill for 1.5 days...
He is so precious!
I read a quote earlier on Joe Stagners twitter by Harold B Lee - "The greatest thing a father can do for his children is love their mother". Right now, they seem like very real words. Legs and Alf are both currently asleep and the longer the better in my opinion. The last 2 days have destroyed them both.
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He is so precious!
I read a quote earlier on Joe Stagners twitter by Harold B Lee - "The greatest thing a father can do for his children is love their mother". Right now, they seem like very real words. Legs and Alf are both currently asleep and the longer the better in my opinion. The last 2 days have destroyed them both.
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Monday 13 April 2009
Easter Update
The long long long weekend is over and it's back to work tomorrow. Oh well. It has been a corking weekend! Not really sure we have done anything palpable aside from build a flat pack garden gate but it has been a fun time all the same. We have had Alfie out in the garden a lot this weekend. I think from the photo below you will agree that he really likes his play pen...
You can see the full size image as part of the photostream here.
He is starting to develop into a real joy. Still only just 8 months old and we are nearly certain now that he will be walking before he crawls. He has nearly no interest in being on his front and if he is left there for more than a minute he lets you know that he is not impressed!!
In other - non alfie - news, we have decided on the date for our June party. Sunday 21st of June! If you know us then you will almost certainly be getting an email from me over the next few days inviting you and yours along. Hope to see you then. If you work all hours and shifts, now is the time to swap them if you need to. :) (I know it isn't that easy)
The last thing I have been doing, code wise, is getting the twitter interface to work and getting around company firewall bans on flickr. If you look at the properties of the image of alfie you will see what I mean. The twitter interface is a nice hook in using the API but it means I can use it at work (during breaks of course). I think my twitterings are pretty lame at the mo so I am going to give them an Alfie/Techie slant.
Just had a good idea for a t-shirt too so look out for it on grillymonk soon.
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You can see the full size image as part of the photostream here.
He is starting to develop into a real joy. Still only just 8 months old and we are nearly certain now that he will be walking before he crawls. He has nearly no interest in being on his front and if he is left there for more than a minute he lets you know that he is not impressed!!
In other - non alfie - news, we have decided on the date for our June party. Sunday 21st of June! If you know us then you will almost certainly be getting an email from me over the next few days inviting you and yours along. Hope to see you then. If you work all hours and shifts, now is the time to swap them if you need to. :) (I know it isn't that easy)
The last thing I have been doing, code wise, is getting the twitter interface to work and getting around company firewall bans on flickr. If you look at the properties of the image of alfie you will see what I mean. The twitter interface is a nice hook in using the API but it means I can use it at work (during breaks of course). I think my twitterings are pretty lame at the mo so I am going to give them an Alfie/Techie slant.
Just had a good idea for a t-shirt too so look out for it on grillymonk soon.
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Sunday 5 April 2009
Joining the forum
So the forum has now been alive for a couple of weeks and slowly we are getting somewhere with memberships and people joining. That said, in the last couple of days there have been a few iffy signups of highly questionable, possibly robotic, nature so I am going to keep a close eye on the new members and see what happens. If needs be there are a few steps I can take to help protect the site a bit more from bots... I am also in the middle of writing an update for my admin page where I write all this stuff. I am looking to hook it into flickr and also make the HTML a bit nicer when posting the new thread and blog post. At the moment, it all comes out as one block of text. This isn't the end of the world but doesn't help when I have written it in nice paragraphs. The clustrmaps pages have all been up a couple of weeks now too and it would suggest that all my pages are getting a good few hits but the most popular would be tech.kruelintent.com which seems to have a bit more global appeal. In SEO news. grillymonk is now number 1 for 'Gloucester Baby T-shirts' and kruelintent is in the top 5 for both 'Gloucester Computer Help' and 'Gloucester Web Design'. Not bad at all! Oh, In family news. Alfie is now 8 months old and going great guns. I have 2 major woodwork projects going on in the back garden but all will be revealed if you are coming to my June party. Date to be announced in the next week or so. I think I will leave it there.
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