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Archive for December, 2005

My daughter and I were in the study the other day looking at some photos that I had just transferred from our digital camera. Jasmine loves to see photos on the big screen of the iMac and I thought it would be fun for her to take some of her own so with a quick lesson (push this one) I let her roam the house taking photos.

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She kept popping back to show me her images and I was amazed by the photos she was taking. She seems to have an eye for both detail and patterns and it was a fascinating insight into her view of our house at Christmas.

In Japan the most common size of motorcycle is 400cc and smaller and the reason for this is entirely practical.

Part of the Japanese motorcycle test requires you to lay your bike on its side on the ground and then to pick it up on your own. The Japanese not being the largest of people and there being nothing heavier than a motor bike on its side means that they choose smaller motorcycles.

I think the same rule should be applied to luggage on public transport.

If you cannot pick up your own luggage or if it weighs more than you or a small horse in some cases, you should not be allowed on public transport.

I am fed up with being stuck behind tourists with huge cases as they struggle to move on and off trains and up stairs at stations.

Get a taxi or travel lighter please.

Yes another Top X of 2005 listing…

Top 5 Events
1. The Birth of my son
2. Celebrating 15 years with and 5 years married to my beautiful wife
3. Spending hours bobbing around in the Med with my daughter Jasmine
4. Finally buying a Mac
5. So many others…

Top 5 Albums
1. Stars of CCTV – Hard Fi
2. Employment – Kaiser Chiefs
3. Hold Your Colour – Pendulum
4. Aerial – Kate Bush
5. ‘64 – ‘95 – Lemon Jelly

An honourable mention goes to Underworld who have released their first new material for ages in the last couple of months. The River Run Project is not a new album as such; there are currently two tracks totalling almost an hour of music so they just sneak in…

Very difficult to choose 5. This is just 5 that were released in 2005; I have found so many more great albums this year – some old, some new and some revisited.

Top 5 Books Read
1. First Light – Geoffrey Wellum
2. Tail End Charlies – John Nichol & Tony Rennel
3. Pattern Recognition – William Gibson
4. Fermat’s Last Theorem – Simon Singh
5. 15 Inspector Rebus novels – Ian Rankin

Doing this really makes me think of High Fidelity by Nick Hornby – if you have read it you’ll know what I mean…

Tim Berners Lee, the man who invented the web in case you didn’t know and shame on you if you didn’t, has started a blog.

In 1989 one of the main objectives of the WWW was to be a space for sharing information. It seemed evident that it should be a space in which anyone could be creative, to which anyone could contribute.

Just the one entry for now but we all had to start somewhere ;-)

Am I missing something?

George Best is the genius footballer that essentially drank himself to death.. is he not?

Why the hell is the life of a suicide victim being celebrated like this?

What message does this send to kids? Hey it’s OK to have everything and then throw it all away through self destructive drinking and drug taking; don’t worry you’ll still get a hero’s send off.

With modern day footballers being viewed as celebrities and apparently being able to get away with rape because of who they are this all seem very wrong to me.