Dave

Dave

Quietness

Things have been pretty quiet over here recently. I guess I have just been concentrating on other things. First up, I have started to host the Impnet forums – a site for fans of Lincoln City Football Club. This has…

Ryan Adams

Ryan Adams, along with Nick Cave, is just about the only musician whose new releases I bother with these days. I know what I like, alright?! Anyway, here’s a quick round-up of his solo career. I don’t know a lot…

Lake Vyrnwy Mosaic

Today we visited Lake Vyrnwy. Around the lake are a load of different trails to walk on, one of which leads to an area full of slightly mental wooden sculptures.See the flickr set for them in their proper sizes. Worth…

2005 in Cities

My list is depressingly parochial, and short: Norwich  Peterborough London Cambridge Chester Amsterdam York Bristol Birmingham And in the rough order than I visited them. Hopefully, others on Palimpsest will have added their’s soon.

The Magic of the Cup

MJR thinks of an explanation for the proliferation of cup upsets over the last week: England’s football fans had the pleasure of random football scores last weekend: the FA Cup. Why is there so much expectation of upsets? I think…

My Top Ten Websites and services

…right now. This is a seriously temporary list! 1. Gmail – never have I stuck with an email system or even address for so long. Quick, easy to use, almost perfect. 2. Newsgator – you could possibly substitute this with…

Links 9/1/06

Which I left in drafts until now… Knifing Charles: Was this Daisy McAndrew’s First Scoop? Sniping from the sidelines at Google Pack

Links 7/1/06

It’s a Saturday, so not a lot going on, despite the Google announcements. Google Pack – hasn’t everyone already got this stuff? Politics: Charles Kennedy resigns at last (aside from whether he should have done so, whether now or months…

Another Mosaic

This one is better I think: more pics at a smaller size. A tip for when pasting in HTML from flickr into WordPress 2. the editor is supposed to pick up HTML and work it out for you, but for…

Big Day Out 2

Much planning is being done over at Palimpsest for the second Big Day Out, which we have all been looking forward to after the success of last year’s. It seems like a few new Palimpers will be coming along, which…

Council Website

My local council has a forum which no one uses. Well, I thought I would give it a go, largely because I was so annoyed at how long it took me to find out my local councillors’ names and contact…

Tree, by Chillicheese

Been browsing through Flickr and found this beauty from Chillicheese: Palimper and blogger. I have recently become a ‘pro’ member of flickr, largely so that I can dump loads of family photos for distant family members to see, so they are…

Links 3/1/06

The first of the New Year. Quentin likes Protopage a lot. Good. I think it is a brilliant service. Palimpsest discusses resolutions. I need to focus more. I have updated my book page for 2006. I have had 5 emails…

New Year Annoyance

Just logged into my web-based RSS aggregator (I am using Newsgator these days) to find hundreds of posts all wishing me a happy new year. Great, thanks everyone. I must be in  a bad mood today. Still, if people just…

The Rock, Llanymynech

The Rock is a disused limestone quarry which overlooks the village, now a nature reserve. A brilliant place for rambling walks. Loads more photos on my Flickr page.

10/20/30 Rule of Powerpoint

Guy Kawasaki writes about  his 10/20/30 Rule of  Powerpoint: It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.