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Posts from ‘April, 2006’

Magnolia Morning

Magnolia Morning
Originally uploaded by JustGraham.
Leaving for work early this morning (around 6.45 am) I noticed that the Magnolia was in flower and couldn’t resist snapping it with my mobile phone. Then I found myself thinking of the film and started humming Aimee Mann songs.
The mind goes where it wants to go sometimes. I must see [...]

List of Freeware Programs to Solve 450+ Common Problems

Extremely useful free utilities that do specific jobs really well and save time and money.
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This is a first for me. A digg blog post. The list is structured by task which makes it more relevant for me. Definately worth a bookmark in my opinion.

Amazing

I just came across (courtesy of digg.com) some fantastic rainbow photos. As they are copyrighted I don’t wish to link with an image so I’m putting it here in the sidebar. This is also a means to check if you look at my sidebar or not…

Sculpture viewed as Non

Sculpture viewed as Non
Originally uploaded by JustGraham.
I can only offer you a very murky photo of a sculpture I came across coming out of the cinema last Sunday. Luckily there is a link to the artists work here. It is a rather clever sculpture which say OUI or NON depending on the angle you view [...]

Last flight to Zurich with FlyBaboo

Last flight to Zurich with FlyBaboo
Originally uploaded by JustGraham.
I forgot to tell you but FlyBaboo airlines, based in Geneva, is a low cost airline flying to Lugano and Venice amongst other destinations.
It started a service from Geneva to Zurich late last year but had to abandon it as there were insufficient passengers to make it [...]

Google

Since I changed templates I hadn’t got around to updating the sidebar and my Google Ads were no longer displaying. Google noticed and reminded me, offering all sorts of help to get me out of this uncomfortable and embarrasing situation. So they are back for your pleasure. Make me rich! Please?

The pics you were not meant to see

Flowers
Originally uploaded by JustGraham.
My wife and I went to visit a nearby DIY and Garden Centre store called Hornbach and I took my camera for the day. As the sun was out I was a happy snapper and took several innocent (and not altogether fascinating) pics of flowers and a small tub/pool that we could [...]

Amazing 3D Street Art

Kurt Wenner
Originally uploaded by Centripetal Notion.
A colleague sent me some pics of Julian Beever’s street art. Some remarkable 3D work that this British Artist has made these past few years. Another artist, the German Kurt Wenner does similar work and this picture is from a Flickr page dedicated to their work. Amazing. They should have [...]

Gaming memories

Wyn of Dereth
Originally uploaded by JustGraham.
I’ve just uploaded some screenpics of my last real gaming spree.
They date from my stint in Asheron’s Call 2 a MMORPG game from Turbine Studios that ended around the end of last year.
I had ended it some time before that. It’s a shame but it was a game frought with [...]

Railway

Big news today in the local paper. Our national railway, the CFF, has announced that it will be adding trains and shortening times between towns. They then add that this will occur by the year 2030… This is news???