May 31, 2009

Castleton ROC Post

Filed under: General — James Holden @ 7:22 pm

Visited Castleton ROC post this week, a cold-war relic. Click for the Flickr set.

Castleton ROC Post

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April 9, 2009

Leeds International Pool, 18 Months Later

Filed under: General — James Holden @ 10:30 pm

Leeds International Pool

This is the sorry state of the Leeds International Pool 18 months after closing. The striking design is one of the disgraced architect John Poulson’s few remaining works.

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October 11, 2008

Happy Guitarist

Filed under: General — James Holden @ 8:08 pm

A few weeks back, we went to a friends wedding. The band were excellent, and I took some pictures:

Happy Guitarist

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September 18, 2008

Niall William Holden, born 18th September 2008

Filed under: General — James Holden @ 3:54 am

This is our latest addition, born four and a half hours ago:

Niall William Holden

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September 3, 2008

Photos from PHPNW Meeting

Filed under: General — James Holden @ 6:25 pm

There are some photos from the PHPNW meeting last night on my flickr stream.

Laptops

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August 29, 2008

3038 Photos in Three Days

Filed under: General — James Holden @ 6:21 pm

A guy called Robbie shot 3038 photos whilst going about his daily business over three days, set them to music, and used them to make a video showing a slice of his life. The result is awesome:
3038 Photos in Three Days

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August 22, 2008

Loud Truth returns

Filed under: General — James Holden @ 12:19 pm

The old Loud Truth webzine has been reactivated at http://www.loudtruth.org.

Neil’s done a sterling job of picking it up, dusting it down, and bringing it into the world wide web of 2008 complete with RSS feed. I’m sure interesting links will be gratefully accepted.

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May 29, 2008

Landing Gear Failure - Live from Manchester Airport!

Filed under: General — James Holden @ 2:56 pm

Well, I’m back off holiday - almost!

I’m currently writing this from the runway at Manchester Airport. Yes, on the plane. The problem is that we landed over an hour ago after a bumpy landing due to landing gear failure. The wheels went down, but the steering was b0rked and we needed to be towed.

That was only the first problem though, because we only got 200 yards before the tow truck broke down. A replacement was sent, but, incredibly, that broke down too!

We’re currently sat waiting for a replacement truck to tow us across the main runway - two hours after we landed.

Here’s the current view:

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March 18, 2008

Arthur C Clarke Dead at 90

Filed under: General — James Holden @ 11:02 pm

Some sad news had just come to my attention. The science fiction author and futurist, most well known for his 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey has passed away at the age of 90 in Sri Lanka after suffering breathing difficulties.

As well as his writing and film making, he was known for his scientific writings, including his proposal of geosynchronous communication satellites, which orbit at an altitude now known as the Clarke Belt.

He will be missed by a great many film and sci-fi fans and scientists the world over.

Arthur C Clarke

Arthur C Clarke - 1917 to 2008

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February 27, 2008

The BBC Homepage gets a makeover

Filed under: General — James Holden @ 4:26 pm

As of a few minutes ago, the BBC has gone live with it’s new homepage.

The new site is an iGoogle type affair with re-positionable content blocks, location specific content and, rather quirkily, a flash rendition of the old BBC clock, which will only be recognisable to those over a certain age.

There was a beta version of the new homepage floating around for a while which garnered somewhat mixed opinion, but it appear that they have launched with pretty much what was on the table then.

Most encouragingly it degrades very gracefully with JavaScript switched off. Also, at the HTML level the page is mostly composed of headings and lists with the layout being entirely derived by CSS.

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