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LUGRadio Live 2007
Just back from LUGRadio Live 2007 – the annual weekend of geekery in Wolverhampton. As well as being in a different location to last year, it had a completely different atmosphere for me – last year was too hot to circulate much but this year, I chatted to lots and lots of interesting people. Good [...]
A year on
So it was a year last weekend since I left work at the University of Leeds and things are going well. Not rolling-around-in-piles-of-money-and-giggling well (at least not all the time – but we’ve had our moments) but steady well (aka ‘enough for me to be able to afford the trip to Lindisfarne’ well). John’s joined [...]
Filters I’d like to see added into GIMP
I use GIMP every day. For those that don’t know, GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program – ie, the free software equivalent of Photoshop. I’m probably not supposed to call it that but meh. I mostly use it for pretty basic things like cropping/resizing, sharpening and adjusting the colour levels on photos for use [...]
Small packet. Small packet. Small packnet. Small parquet.
I’ve just written the phrase “small packet” 76 times in a row. To avoid any unnecessary knocks to John’s self-esteem, I should really say it had nothing to do with him.
“I use my grand I.Q. to decide what color lip gloss to wear and how to hit three keggers before curfew”
The most difficult decision of the day: what should be the lead photo story of the day, David Beckham’s new haircut or Lindsay Lohan’s nipples?
Recycle This in the Guardian too
Recycle This has really been popular this week – we’ve had links from loads of different blogs after a mention on treehugger and now the Guardian newspaper has mentioned us in an ethical editorial thingy too. So to say it again, woo!