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I actually intended to try and do quite a straight portrait and include the horse at the side of me. I stood with my back to the horse with my camera at ...")
Flock
I’m glad modern technology is being used to make games like this :)
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Dave
Kitchen Stories & O’Horten
Recently, I’ve seen a number of films that aren’t the sort of things I’d normally watch. This is due mainly to having two consecutive 3 months trials with LoveFilm, the online DVD rental company. Their service works so well and seems good value so I’m still using it after the trials ended.
Anyway, the point of this, is that I recently watched a film that bowled me over – Kitchen Stories. It’s a few years old but up until a few weeks ago I’d never heard of hit. It’s just lovely really and a breath of fresh air compared to a lot of the current crop of Hollywood pap.
The reason I found this in the first place was because I saw the trailer for O’Horten which is the latest film from the director of Kitchen Stories, Bent Hamer. This trailer looks charming and lovely too. I’m really looking forward to this now that I’ve watched Kitchen Stories.
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Dave
Alport Castles with Nottingham Flickr Group
On Saturday I went for a walk from Fairholmes near Ladybower Reservoir to Alport Castles with some members of the Nottingham Flickr Group. It was pretty wet in the morning – this photo was taken just before lunch when we reached Alport Castles and despite my efforts to keep the lens free of water, I was losing the battle, so this is the result – big blurred spots where the water droplets landed.
On the plus side, it more accurately reflects the conditions!
The day was much harder work for me than normal due to the fact that I had forgotten my walking boots. The footwear I wear most of the rest of the time would have to do – they were classed as walking shoes – and while they are very comfortable for day to day use, the level of grip is tiny compared to good walking boots. As a consequence, the section of the walk that descended down the wet grass from Alport Castles to the valley bellow required a lot more effort and concentration. I’m determined never to forget them again!
More photos from me and the rest of the group here.
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Dave
Some Good Stuff
I’ve not posted for a while so he’s a picture of a donkey and a horse to make up for that.
Both of them were big fans of having their noses stroked and showed no signs of getting bored with it – so when we left they would just have to wait for the next set of people to come along and fuss over them.
Anyway, the rest of this post is a list of some stuff that I’ve either enjoyed or found useful that I thought I’d share. It’s a right mix of stuff:
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
The series continues to make me laugh. Now in it’s fourth season. The main characters are all self serving and amoral and Danny DeVito is just great.
They really need to get some UK DVD’s released though.
More info at FX.
Fringe
Fringe is a TV show with hints of The X Files. In the screenshot above, some of the main characters are enjoying some food and Spongebob Squarepants on TV. The cow is called Gene. One of my favourite moments, other than the one pictured above, saw them driving across town chasing some homing pigeons that had been tuned to home in on somebody’s magnetic field. Thankfully a lot of it isn’t silly, but it’s a nice balanced mix.
World of Goo
This is just a lovely game. Very simple – get a lot of goo balls to the exit. More at 2dboy.com.
Evernote
Evernote is a great application/service. It stores notes and lets you search them. There are plenty of things that do this already, but over the years, everthing I’ve tried has just been lacking. Evernote is very good at it’s job and in all the time I have been using it, the speed of development and improvement has been quite impressive too.
I use evernote to store notes about anything and everything. I can drag PDF documents in to it, clip a section of a web page, send it a photo or recording from my mobile phone and it all goes in to the searchable pot. The windows client I use synchronises with the web so that I can get to my notes from anywhere. There is a mobile client for some mobile phone times but also a mobile version of the site for other mobile users.
There are lots of nice things about this. For example, if I take a photo of something I want to remember on my phone and send it to Evernote, when I’m searching for it later, it will recognise words inside the photos too. This means, for example, that if you snap a photo of a business card, you’ll be able to search for the person’s name or company and find the details. It’s not just nicely typed text it recognises either, it has a really good success rate with hand written stuff.
For me, it’s great for technical bits and bobs that I always used to end up searching for time after time. I also use it to store quite a large library or walking routes in PDF format. The has multiple advantages over my previous method of storing them – just in a folder on my computer with filenames that tried to explain what the walk was about.
Now that they’re inside Evernote, I can browse them visually with full previews of the map and route, I can search for phrases that are within the route description and place names too. So if I fancy a walk that takes in the village of Longnor, I can search for that and find some.
It also means that all of this stuff is backed up away from my computer in case disaster ever hits it.
Evernote has become invaluable to me. More at evernote.com.
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Stephen Hill
Hi Dave,
Evernote is awesome. I was using OneNote for quite a while until Evernote came along, which has the big advantage of being web based and available on almost any device.
Great little write-up :)
Stephen
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Dave Wild, and 
Rick Harrison 10:29 pm on November 30, 2008 Permalink |
Have you found anything to say when its coming out? It does indeed look fun :-)
Dave Wild 8:01 am on December 1, 2008 Permalink |
It was supposed to be before Christmas but the word on the, ahem, farm, is that it’s more likely to be January.