Archive for April, 2008

We pass this little guy everytime we go to the pub, and everytime it puts a little smile on my face. Now is this art or just pure vandalism?

I’ve been pondering this on and off for a while: I think petrol stations in the UK are ripping us off ever since the price cracked £1 a litre.
Unlike South Africa, and other countries, the UK’s petrol prices are not regulated (only heavily taxed). Accordingly, petrol companies are free to charge what they like [...]

CNN have started selling T-Shirts on which you can have one of their news headlines printed. It’s a pretty cool idea, although shockingly easy to manipulate…

Watchout Bob, as soon as I can get my hands on some Zim dollars, I’ll be over to claim my country.

Just a quick note to say I’m trialling some experimental settings on my site. If you spot any problems, please let me know. If I don’t hear anything, I’ll assume all is well with the new settings.

I’m starting to get a bit creative with Lightroom’s RAW processing capabilities. Accentuating the blacks really brings out the colour and gives a great contrasting black background, without losing the bright morning sunshine, in which I took this picture.

Following our snowfall on Saturday night, a couple of kids built a snowman on the grass across the road from us. Well, it’s now Thursday and we’ve had 3 days of glorious sun shine and remnants of our neighbourhood snowman are still there…

He’s lost his head, and his stature is a bit diminished, but [...]

Look what I woke up to this morning…

We’re off for a team curry at the Ancient Raj in Frimley this evening and I thought I’d peruse the menu before we go (we’re hoping may speed things up if we can pre-order before arriving).
In my perusals I encountered the usual assortment of well known Indian dishes, and then I encountered this intriguing dish:

It’s [...]

The entire world certainly knows about the shambles that has been the first week of London Heathrow Terminal 5. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled, and are still being cancelled and BAA/BA have a huge mountain of “lost” luggage to return to their rightful owners.
They’re coming up with some very creative ways of getting [...]