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Kelvin from canal bridge in Kelvindale

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

Kelvin from canal bridge in KelvindaleOriginally uploaded by battez##########################Luke Barker, from a mobile device.28th August, 2010

New Year’s Sunrise in Oulu

Friday, January 1st, 2010

New Year’s Sunrise in Oulu

Originally uploaded by ptrktn

lovely pic on flickr (not by me!)

Shoez

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Shoez

Originally uploaded by battez

sent from my mobile phone

MOV00270

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

MOV00270

Originally uploaded by EvisNP

an untitled masterpiece evoking the Glasgow summer.
By Evis Perdikou, a Glasgow-based artist.

eeePC-mame-sibling-clash-hypersports

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

eeePC-mame-sibling-clash-hypersports
Originally uploaded by battez

i got off to a good start, but lost it somewhere during the archery and then of course, the pole vault which I hate…even qualified in the triple jump.
tom assures me the perfect angles are 35 41 and 45 with as much on the line as possible. If so a […]

Blog overhauled - battez.org is no more!

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Hi for anyone who has ever been to my website before, it was battez.org but I rather lacksadazeically (sick) omitted to renew the domain before it expired a few days ago, incurring a charge of $100+ or let it slide…so it has slid.
Anyway I wanted to move things to this Fianchetto domain, as that […]

Alphabeat / Leon Jean Marie

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Alphabeat / Leon Jean Marie

Originally uploaded by battez

saw this great band AlphaBeat last night - kind of S Club 7 with early Madonna and recent Madonna thrown in. Lots n lots of catchy tunes…

Javascript slideshow Scriptaculous / Prototype based

Friday, April 25th, 2008

A really nice script for a basic cross fading slideshow in javascript was written by Andrew Sellick a wee while ago.
Along with others using the script I was suffereing from a behaviour in browsers where the images in the list items would be cycled through as stills briefly until the slideshow was ready to go […]

Chess for schools

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

…but only english schools it seems. Still, an interesting scheme to provide chess sets for free to all schools who apply. They look slightly ugly but are intriguingly meant to be near indestructible sets made from some form of durable plastic.

Advert project from Uni!

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

made this several years ago (end 2003 /early 04?) as part of our Animation class using LightWave at University of Paisley - Multimedia BSc Honours . Nicolas Blanchard, David Gallagher and Sophie Godard - Nicolas really knew his stuff (like the textures and more fancy Lightwave effects) but I think we all contributed a fair […]