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My personal blog can now be found at Rants 2.0

Day at the airport

Spent yesterday mainly in the car. It was nice to be in Tasha's car though as the extra comfort and the elevated driving position are good for long distance. Caught some WiFi action at the airport whilst having a bit of lunch before the meeting and used the Sip&Surf network, which was very quick and quite reasonable (in comparison to the others available).

The drive home was exhausting in the rain and spray, but I got home at a reasonable time. Picked up my new 3G modem on the way home and gave that a little try this morning, I get pretty good coverage from my desk in Leicester, occasionally dropping into FAST 3G mode of upto 1.4Mbps.

Woke up this morning to find a heron in the garden - cool! Couldn't get to my camera in time though. Catching up with a few more back episodes of HEROES. Jesus! I wasn't sure it could get much better but man episode 17 rocks!!

A long, long day

Well it has truely been a very long day today. Its long rehearsal for Goodnight Mr.Tom and as assitant director she had a lot on her mind - so she was up at 05:15 this morning. I did the husbandly thing and got up to to make tea etc while Tasha worked on the production. Our printer dying didn't help, as a lot of the work Tasha had was to be printed, so we had to email it out and get it done remotely. It was also the last official game of the season for Derby (the play-offs still to come), and the team played well to get a 2-0 victory over Leeds. The ref was stretchered off after a few minutes after he took a nasty fall. Steve Howard got his player of the year award, Giles Barnes the young player. It was cool to see Dennis Wise ( a bit of a hero in our house) looking very snappy!

The kids spend the day with Grandma & Grandpa and got spoilt rotten!! I picked them up full of beans and with painted faces!! Sounds like Mum & Dad were run ragged!!

Tasha has just rung to say the rehearsal has finished and she's going for a well deserved drink - I'll catch the gossip of the day later!

Just watched the new BT advert staring Gordon Ramsey - very funny, but surprised he's doing the ad - they must have paid him a lot of money

24 Hours of Flickr

Got up yesterday to some poor lighting. Thought that I wouldn't get much photography done on the 24 hours of Flickr Day. As it turned out though we were really busy, so there was plenty of "day in the life" type stuff.

Went over to Uttoxeter to get a bistro table for the patio, and built that when we got back from ballet lessons - by which time the sun had come out.

Tasha did some more planting and then we wandered down to Suzanne's house to see the new cats (and Ralph's new plasma!)

We chatted for a while then all of us went over to the Spread Eagle and had a few drinks. We like it there because wine by the bottle is on offer!! Sat there until just after 6 then came home for a BBQ at the new bistro table!!!

Mixed bag

Yesterday was a mixed bag of stuff really. After being bored all week I had 6 meeting invitations to take place of friday to wednesday in varying locations about the country, 3 of which were yesterday. I have had some more invoicing issues which hopefully have been sorted out now. Job news on other fronts is looking up though - which is good, and I did enjoy another frap with Mark & Dan.

Got home to 2 mac packages of my extra memory and a keyboard - sweet.

Had a wee play with Aperture last night too.

Pimp my Mac!

My new memory upgrade, written with my new keyboard. Mac'd out!

Dyson School

How I which that the Dyson School of Design Innovation was around when I was younger. The school which is due to open in 2009 is partly funded by the government and aims to boost the number of engineering graduates in the UK compared to developing countries like India and China. other contributors to the school include Airbus, Rolls-Royce and Williams F1.

Information from a story in the IET Engineering & Technology Magazine

iPhone Pictures

Interesting edition of MacBreak Weekly podcast this morning, saying that some pictures had been posted to Flickr this week that were taken on an iPhone. The pictures seem to be taken in a cafe 3 miles from Apple HQ and were quickly withdrawn from the Flickr feed. The EXIF data showed the type to be an iPhone and the resolution of the images ties in with the size quoted (about 3MP). The images were pretty detailed though.

Apparently there have been numerous sighting in the Apple HQ area of folks with iPhones, assuming they are employees on test.

Very quiet in the office today - same old folks out at Gatwick, but Mark & Pete have gone down for some fire training at Stanstead. My cube bay is empty apart from me, checking out some MacBreak and iLifeZone.

The Daily Grind

Really struggling to stay focused on work at the moment. The task that I have isn't very taxing and involves a lot of reading (which I personally can't stomach a great deal of in one sitting), so my mind is naturally wandering to creative pursuits. This situation is not helped by the new mac and setting it up with sweet little tricks.

Had another great life-laundry session last night, this time sorting out all the wardrobes, archiving the winter coats into the new wardrobe in the loft and making up some charity bags.

Completed the latest ubermaclife post using TextMate, another tool that I've got on trial I'm finding it really good to have the ability to blog whilst not on line (just while working for this client, although I'm looking at getting a wireless mobile based modem)

Just taken a look at the video introducing some of the features of OmniFocus which is hopefully due for beta release in the next few weeks. It looks really cool and will be a direct replacement for Kinkless.