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It's been an interesting year so far for our old 1988 Mini 'Designer' Mary Quant limited edition.   A month or so ago we were asked to submit some photos to the Mini Designer Register site (currently 'Mini of the month' at bottom of front-page and several photos on other pages) and then the webmistress of that site put us in touch with a journalist for MiniWorld who was doing an article on Mary Quant.  I took a batch of photos, sent them off and heard back the other day that a few had been used on the article which is now in the sh

One word... Awesome!

I've held back from using Twitter for ages as I've never had a reason to want to use it.  The thought of seeing banal messages of "I had beans on toast tonight" just didn't give me a burning desire to sign up.  That changed though at the weekend...

We were up at The Gadget Show Live at the NEC in Birmingham today.  What a great show!  We were fortunate to be on the very front row, right in the middle, during the hour long session from the presenters.  One of the best things seen there was the new Panasonic Viera Z1 Series plasma TV - a picture that has to be seen to be believed.  If I could justify £4k for a TV then this would be the only choice.  

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There are rarely films on at our local cinemas (Vue & Odeon) in Worcester that I actually want to see - maybe one or two a year that are worth a visit.  That's not to say I don't like films - I love films and that's the problem.  We make good use of our LoveFilm subscription with the huge selection of world cinema and other great movies they have in stock but get frustrated that the two main chain cinemas in the city just churn out the usual brainless fodder that people seem to lap up these days.  These poor examples of film-making ar

Sometimes you use words and phrases and don't think anything of them...until someone else asks what on earth you are talking about.   An example of this is "back-friend".  My family have always used this, from my Dad's side I believe.  I have heard my grandparents use it in the past and my Dad uses it.   Needless to say it's become part of my vocabulary too, but I never though to look at the origin, and always thought everyone knew what it meant.

Internet Explorer has a way of driving web developers up the wall.  Every version has its own glut of bugs and quirks, some just irritating and some downright bizarre.   It's one of those bizarre ones that I've been looking at over the last few days - specifically in Internet Explorer 7, the major browser of our end users.

It's been a busy weekend and it doesn't feel like 5 minutes since Friday evening.

I had a spur of the moment trip to the Mini show at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern today and what a great show it was.  At least a couple of hundred Minis there (a few modern BMW-crafted imposters but mainly real Minis).  The time spent on restoring, modifying and caring for these cars was as obvious as ever and there were some really stunning examples.   As usual there were slogans in back windows such as "

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A couple of weeks ago I was out on a lunchtime walk around the Business Park and bumped into someone I used to work with a few years ago at Severn Trent Systems (about 200m from where I work now).    It seems that the project we both used to work on is still alive and well and it made me start wondering about other projects I've worked on; how long they lived for in these fast-changing times and how many still have traces of them being used today.