Category: life
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Building the new World Trade Center
As of a couple of weeks ago, I have a new job (more to come on that some other time.) One thing about my new job is from my desk I have a grandstand view of what is probably the most famous construction site in the world right now - that of the new World Trade Center.
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Intolerable
It's already most of the way round the blogosphere by now, but I just wanted to join in the voices of condemnation against the people who have abused Kathy Sierra.
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Plutoed
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I've been blogtagged
Damn you Chris Donnan! OK, here's my 5 things you probably don't know about me...
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Trying comments
People keep bugging me to enable comments on my blog, so I've decided to give it a whirl. My biggest problem with comments has been the spam issues, but I'm going to try the Akismet plugin for wordpress and see how that goes.
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Proof that the French have a sense of humour
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Switching to Flickr
It wasn't long ago I was waxing lyrical about Picasa and Picasaweb. Not to be accused of sticking to my guns though, I've switched to Flickr, and there's a few reasons why. -
The universe conspires for us
As anyone who knows me understands, I've faced some challenges over the last couple of years. One or two I've mentioned on this blog, most I haven't.
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JCB vs Astramax? You decide
Apparently the world has a new fastest diesel vehicle - the JCB DIESELMAX. I'm not convinced. Everyone knows the fastest diesel, on the motorway at least, is the Astramax van. I should know, I drove one for a couple of years. Mine wasn't white, but I was still a fully paid-up resident of the outside lane. Oh, those heady days....
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Cliffs, Colorado, and cameras
Short post this one - in the last couple of weeks I went to Fort Tyron Park in New York and Crested Butte in Colorado, and of course took photos. One new thing though, these photos were taken with my new Nikon D50 Digital SLR camera. Now I just have to figure out how to take good looking photos without just cheating and using the automatic modes.