Daily Archives: Sunday, 6th April 2008, 11:51pm

The Last Shadow Puppets – The Age of the Understatement

Posted on Sunday, 6th April 2008, 11:51pm by Les

Now this is fun. The Last Shadow Puppets are the brilliant Alex Turner, singer and songwriter of those lovely Arctic Monkeys and his friend Miles Kane of The Rascals, a band I currently know nothing about, but will be checking … Continue reading →

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I never liked those things…

Posted on Sunday, 6th April 2008, 11:34pm by Les

CAPTCHAs[1], that is. Those nasty things that display some hideously distorted text which you’re meant to be able to read then type into a box to prove that you’re human. Well, last time I checked, I appeared to be either … Continue reading →

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The Management?

Posted on Sunday, 6th April 2008, 9:01pm by Les

On Friday, I had one of my lunchtime walks with the camera. My main target was the Newcastle City Library construction site, where I took some more record shots of the progress of the work. I’ll be posting those later, … Continue reading →

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Weight Report – 6 April 2008

Posted on Sunday, 6th April 2008, 3:21pm by Les

Weight: 217.4 pounds (15 stone 7.4 pounds, 98.6 kg)Oh dear. This is really not going to plan, is it? I blame the weather.[1] Or something. I’ll aim for more of that self-discipline stuff starting tomorrow. Probably. [1] From my Big Book … Continue reading →

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Doctor Who – Partners in Crime

Posted on Sunday, 6th April 2008, 3:10pm by Les

If it hadn’t been for my webserver’s fit of the sulks, I’d have posted this last night. But here we go with the first episode of the fourth series of the revived Doctor Who, or the 30th overall, if you … Continue reading →

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Reasons to hate IE6, Part 395[1]

Posted on Sunday, 6th April 2008, 2:30pm by Les

This is the current design of the heading of this site[2]. It’s been tweaked and twiddled quite a lot, with the most recent change being the randomly changing picture on the left and the new font for the title. I’m … Continue reading →

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Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature

Posted on Sunday, 6th April 2008, 10:13am by Les

While I do most of my photo processing in Lightroom these days, and the new features in Lightroom 2.0 will probably make that even more true, there are times when only Photoshop will do. The trouble with Photoshop is that … Continue reading →

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Another lovely Spring

Posted on Sunday, 6th April 2008, 9:23am by Les

I do love this indecisive weather. Last week, we had some nice mild, sunny days. Just the thing for this time of year, and most welcome. But the weekend has seen a bit of a change. Yesterday morning there was … Continue reading →

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Unplugged?

Posted on Sunday, 6th April 2008, 9:00am by Les

Anyone trying to visit Losing it[1] yesterday may have been disappointed[1] to be greeted by rude messages from their web browsers telling them that the site could not be contacted. What with one thing and another, I didn’t notice there … Continue reading →

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