Gary

London

Farewell Goodnight

Last night photo until I get a new photographic source. Had injections for Hepatitus A, Diptheria, Teberculosis, Thyphoid and a sugar cube for Polio today. The ball is rolling for the big trips! My arm hurts now though. This is from the little bridge that joins Shad Thames and Mill

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Dark Pictures

These pictures were taken at night time. Night time pictures require a longer exposure. Which means the shutter stays open for longer and the camera is able to take in more light. The real difficulty with this is that any movement the camera makes will blur the image. It’s

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you'll feel better if you lie

21st Century London in 1960’s New York photography style. Thanks to Jeroen for teaching me digital photography techniques! It was taken at the base of the escalators at the Canary Wharf underground station escalators. Also check out my attempt of making an Andreas Gursky style picture. The picture was

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and through the sleeping streets

I have joined the world of digital camera owners and its brilliant!! I have had my new camera for about 3 days and already have taken over 150 shots. Some of which I personally believe are not that bad! (The ones I put on here anyway). Here’s but a

God Doesn't Like Yoga

Random topic in aid of a random comment made by one of my friends school class children. Today at luncheon (now that the sandwich game has ended) we messed around with the idea of oxymorons and other words. ‘Living Legend’ is an oxymoron but it also can be used to

Buckley is Amazing

I found out about the artist Jeff Buckley through a friend of mine in the Netherlands. Jeff Buckley, from what I have read and heard, is a guy that liked to play music in a small Irish cafe called Sin-e

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I Digress

Last night was our work party and we went to a bar/restaurant called Digress at City Point, London – it was very nice of work to take us to this bar, but, the clientele of the packed bar are probably the worse crowd of people you can imagine (except for

Windows Tail

I have written an easy to use – not over hyped – not over complicated windows tail application. Tail is a unix command that lists the end of files, using the -f command tail could be used to monitor a file as it was being written to. This tool is the same

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Madrid 2003 - Swings and Roundabouts

Gin, Kim and Gaz on holiday for a couple of days—out of season With only a September-November 1999 'What's-On' guide for Madrid and Kims folder which contained 4 photocopied Yahoo maps of Madrid, we left the flat for the airport. Arriving at Gatwick, before we

Shake it like a polaroid picture..

“quick question actaully. my computer crashed (it froze) and i booted it again. It froze again and now it won’t boot at all – any ideas what is might be???” The person who sent this to me shall remain anonymous. This is the same as emailing your car mechanic and

Grilling + Rugby + Computer = FIRE

I have a small piece of advice for anyone who cares. Don’t try and grill bread with the oven door closed, while using a computer and watching England vs. France rugby. Our toaster exploded in the morning , must have been a fuse, I thought back to the good old

Useful XSL

To cut a long story short, say I wanted to get all the Car elements in /Ancillary/Cars, but I didn’t want to limit my XSLT to hardcoded Cars. I also might want to do it with all the /Ancillary/Vans in my XML document that I may have.

Matrix Revolutions

Actually I thought it was pretty good. Then again, I went into the cinema knowing it wasn’t going to be ground breaking and that I was to expect a Hollywood Block Buster spin-off from the amazingly brilliant original. It was definetly better than the second one, which I can’

Bad Hair Day

As you can see I appear to be having a bad hair day. I don’t know what happened. I didn’t do anything different last night, I actually think it looks pretty cool, I’m going to try and keep it like this but I don’t know if

Life Imitate Bridget Jones

There’s always something going on around where I live; if its not David Blaine living in a glass box, its ‘Spiderman’ climbing 180ft crane to demonstrate for fathers for justice. The crane stands over Tower Bridge road and so the bridge is closed to motorists until Wednesday, when he

I've done it

I’ve made two great breakthroughs recently. I’ve fixed the internet at home so it works. The process is simple, I have to dial the flat from my mobile, hand up after one ring, put the mobile in the kitchen and then dial the internet. works great every time

Matrix Screensaver

I have written a matrix screen saver in .NET 1.1 – it took me about 1 hour and is very poor compared to what else you can get out there; but its a bit of fun and has the added extra over everyone else in that it has the ‘wake

Concorde

I am very angry about the whole concorde thing. Not the whole going out of service thing; I can accept that, its not fuel efficent, its bad for the environment and its too loud. What annoys me is the press saying “I doubt will see another aircraft like this in

General Zod

A friend of mine just said this to me, General Zod says: not a big matrix fan General Zod says: i want to marry in orbit He is clearly insane. We are all going to Madrid next month, its going to be amazing!!!

The Sandwich Game

This is a game you can play at luncheon with your workmates. It is not very complicated and can save you a lot of money on lunches no matter what the outcome. By providing a competitive nature, especially with work mates, you will find you will save more than 50%

Capitalism Rant and MSFT

I want to withdraw a sum of money from an account I have in the United Kingdom, it yields approximately 4.2% interest every year. I have to give notice of any cash withdrawals to the finance house that is holding the investment. However, when I phoned up to tell

Reflection Part I

Someone asked on the Microsoft Web Dev. mailing list the other day about how they could remove their hardcoded loading of messages from their resource manager in .NET. They were doing it using some code like this- string err=resman.GetString(“ClassNotFoundException”); System.Reflection is one of the greatest advantages

The Guns of Love Disastrous

Hello Welcome to my blog, this is the first entry, my old blog at blog-city is now over. This is the future. I am going to buy a digital camera soon and this blog is going to get a lot more exciting than it is now! I got a great