One Man's Notes

A brief bit of video from last night's wedding reception:

Dancing at Adam & Clair's wedding

We're going meta today: What questions would you'd like to see become QoTDs?

This is slightly random, but I'd like to see more picture challenges, like the digital archive one from a few days ago. That was by far the most interesting QotD so far. Maybe you could have a Picture otD alongside the QotD, if that's not overkill.

Quill & Inkwell 1

Another busy day's desk clearing at EG today. One more day, and I should be free to take up residence at RBI central full time.

Spent a little chunk of the day fiddling around with Movable Type 3.3 on my own blog, trying to get a feel of how it operates, and how I'm going to set things up for our bloggers. The single feature I'm probably most excited by is the Widget Manager, although the activity feeds may well be invaluable, too. Exciting, exciting.

I'd have liked to have spent longer playing, but the sooner I clear my desk, the sooner I can go full time on the new project. Humbug.

I popped into Procter Street this afternoon to sort through some stuff, and found a letter from a firm called UBS.

My mind immediatly read that as UBRS.

It may be time for a WoW break...

What's the most recent vivid dream or nightmare that you remember?

Most of the most vivid dreams I've had have been, uh, rude. And I forget my nighmares.

I'm not being very helpful here, am I?

Decorating the hall

As my father might have said, tonight, I have wanker's cramp. Not, you understand, for the activities the name suggests. No, it's because I've spent around 8 hours decorating the internal and external halls and I'm tired.

Lorna and I are on our (hopefully) final push to get the flat finished and on the market by the autumn. We've been putting off doing the external hall because it's an awkaward, tall, Victorian space that's difficult to get to (we used a tall ladder and the pateted "roller on a stick" appraoch) and because it suffered some water damaged while the roof was being replaced.

After a hard weekend's work, it's all done bar a final coat and some carpeting. Very satisfied.

What's the oldest digital camera photo you have on your computer? When is it from? Let's see it!

Happy Mum

I dug through iPhoto, and this is the oldest pic I have that was taken on a digital camera, rather than scanned from film. It's my mum, in her kitchen, taken a few hours after I bought my first digital camera in Halesworth in Suffolk, back in October 2001.

I've got a lovely set of photos taken of Lorna and Mum in Snape Maltings that weekend that were the first real trial of my digital camera. Four and a half years on, I can't image going back to film, especially since I bought a digital SLR 18 months ago.

I'm heading home this evening with a to-do list as long as your arm. The remarkable thing is that I'm looking forward to every single task on the list.

This is the view from my new office:

View from the 8th floor

About a decade ago, I was a restaurant journalist, working for a now defunct magazine. During the couple of years I worked there I had the opportunity to meet several of the UK's celebrity chefs, including Gordon Ramsey, Jean-Christophe Novelli, Michel Roux and Anthony Worral-Thompson.

They're obsessive and ego-driven individuals, but they make great food.

New companion announced

Making good use of promotional tat in the office

I suspect that memory cheats with fireworks. Objectively speaking, the year 2000 fireworks over the Thames was probably the most impressive display I've ever seen. However, those small, local fireworks shows in Dollar while I was growing up have more awe about them in my memory. That's the great thing about being a child: you enjoy things so much more intensely.

Friday night was Conspiracy of Ravens night (that's Friday night, ellefurtle), a gathering of our WoW guild. I lured lornabear along under false pretences (I didn't tell her it was a WoW drinks night), but she had a good time despite that.

Saturday was a day of doing stuff. We sorted out much of the remaining work on the kitchen, leaving us just a touch of paining to do. We took advantage of the quiet streets created by the England vrs Portugal match to go shopping and get me some new threads for my new work role. We then settled down for some serious Cyber action in the penultimate episode of Dr Who. A bit more flat work, and then back to the TV to watch one of our Amazon DVD rentals The Wedding Crashers. Not a bad movie. I did wish that the focus had been on the Vince Vaughn/Isla Fisher couple and not the lead romance, though, and not the dull lead couple. Ah, well.

Sunday, we slept in, mostly due to the ludicrous heat. I toodled off to Sainsbury's and B&Q for food and DIY supplies, and then did some serious eBay listing. I whipped up some Tuna Linguine for dinner, and we watched the excellent Lord of War (another Amazon rental).

Not the busiest weekend ever, but pretty enjoyable.

I am clearly a warm-blooded adders, as all this hot weather is not making me happy.

Or letting me sleep.

Grrr.