Discovered 2 interesting takes on Finnish (particularly Helsinki) life recently. This Photo journal of Helsinki, from where this pic comes from.
I re-named it nutshell as it contains so many Finnish-y things… the trees, the lake, the reeds, a sauna, a power station (so many koski’s!), beautiful light and especially a sense of calm. (Notwithstanding the […]
Woo hoo! I’m off to Mallorca tomorrow - Valldemossa, where Borges, Chopin and er…Bill Clinton have all visited. And CZ Jones is nearby too
Sun ,sea, safety from potential Scottish ribbing if England have an early exit. Which seems not too unlikely, I have to say.
ROONEY! WING BALL!!
PS prepare for the soporific deluge […]
Retro browsers
Not that you’ll read this from the wilderness of Swaziland, but wherever you are, good luck with your summer plans… *looks skyward*
I can’t give enough thanks for the records you so kindly entrusted me with…I’m loving the Bert Jansch stuff especially, the album sleeve is like a Johnny Marr biography captured in a single pose. […]
Update: Sold!
(And for a fair price considering it’s rare and has some fine stuff on it, particularly ‘illusion‘).
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Stumbled upon a Prince addict’s amassing of discographical info today. Incredible number of sessions prince worked on there.
I love this pic (opens a new window, and it’s a big picture) →
Mega! got a new GMail account, thanks to Iain. And I am now waiting for an equivalent of this GMail notifier for IE, for firefox, which will hopefully work in the 0.9 version too which is imminent!
Working on getting on a RSS of my eBay stuff for sale up here..seeing as I didn’t sell much […]
Just read a piece by Jukka Korpela, who once sent me an email when I was in Finland, I am proud to say! (He helped get MySQL running on the University server when I was there) What I didn’t realise at the time of my most un-Proust-like correspondence with him, was that he is a […]
An interesting article on the commercial benefits of implementing web standards in web sites. (If anyone really is still loath to use them only because the government says they have to). If you want a quick example - using the validation tool, is now pretty much what a spell-checker is to an editor, simply, a […]