All entries for May 2004
May 28, 2004
Poppy power
Follow-up to Sunday poppy from Hannah's handbag
Its amazing how similar this poppy image is to the one I took the other day. I suppose its not really that surprising though – it is poppy season!
Heading for the hills
I am loooking forward to a break next week – exploring, swimming, walking, reading and hopefully experimenting with a bit of photography.The view should be something like this…..
Picture courtesy of Chris Coe.
Adobe Live Conference
I spent yesterday at the Adobe Live Conference at Olympia. It was a really worthwhile day showcasing the (newish) Abobe CS suite. I attended seminars on digital video, print and web publishing and proffessional digital photography. The integratation between applications (which were once designed and used in isolation) is really developing in leaps and bounds, and Photoshop just gets better all the time.
Demonstrations showed how Premiere Pro, After Effects, Encore DVD and Abobe Audition (sound editing) create a seamless and intuitve work flow, with tonnes of pre-set features for editing.
Its always good to pick up tips on current software and to see the new upgrades showcased by the leading lights of the design and animation industry. I was able to learn more about the RAW file formats for digital SLR photography, and amazed to learn just how much control Photoshop CS offers to the RAW digital format.
There was even time for a spot of shopping in Oxford St at the end of the day!
May 25, 2004
The dentist
I went to the dentist yesterday for the first time in a while. Fortunately I don't have to go that often and all I had to have was a polish and have my teeth counted. Why do they do that numbering thing? Its as though they are making sure you haven't grown any new ones or sold any on the black market. Its a bit weird really.
I don't know what it is about dentists that strikes fear into even the calmest heart. Maybe its the memory of all the extractions I had as a child, and that once in that seat I am powerless, come what may!
Sunday poppy
I spied this poppy my kitchen window on Sunday morning as the early sun caught it. I now have a mass of them lolloping about. Its amazing how they fold up at night and unfold in the morning sun.
May 21, 2004
Gates backs blogs for businesses
Writing about web page http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3734981.stm
Blogs are good for business, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has said.
In a speech to an audience of chief executives, Mr Gates said the regularly updated journals, or blogs, could be a good way for firms to tell customers, staff and partners what they are doing.
He said blogs had advantages over other, older ways of communicating such as e-mail and websites.
More than 700 Microsoft employees are already using blogs to keep people up to date with their projects.
Clematis
The campus presents a diverse array of sights and sounds in late spring, especially when bathed in warm sunshine (unlike today!).
Some things require a close up inspection to be fully appreciated.
Things that bug…
Writing about Things that annoy me… from [Ux]
Inspired by Steve C, here are my top bugs for the week:
1. Traffic lights (Coventry City Council are going crazy and putting them everywhere!)
2. Annoying phone tones.
3. Milk cartons that spill regardless of how you open them
May 20, 2004
Purple
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Perhaps the powder thrown at Tony Blair was crushed from this very purple patch !