I have never been to Kenilworth Castle but if you get good weather it looks like a nice place to visit and to slow the world down just a bit.
04 January, 2009
Cold
Now for some reason that I can not fathom it's been cold down here in the South of England for longer than I can remember for the last few years at this time of year why? don't know.
All I do know is at the rate it is going it will have been at 2 centigrade or less during the day for the last week or so, and at night we have had -8 centigrade! which for us is low in this part of England, as I write this the weather forecast is for it to stay cold until this Friday the 9 th of January.
As I have noticed of the last few years I do not fair very well in the cold any more, in fact it gets to be painful, why? not a clue, no one else in my close family have the problem just little old me, so it goes without saying that I do keep a very good watch on the weather at this time of year, and now with my ipod touch it has become all to easy to check the weather.
All I do know is at the rate it is going it will have been at 2 centigrade or less during the day for the last week or so, and at night we have had -8 centigrade! which for us is low in this part of England, as I write this the weather forecast is for it to stay cold until this Friday the 9 th of January.
As I have noticed of the last few years I do not fair very well in the cold any more, in fact it gets to be painful, why? not a clue, no one else in my close family have the problem just little old me, so it goes without saying that I do keep a very good watch on the weather at this time of year, and now with my ipod touch it has become all to easy to check the weather.
02 January, 2009
Test one
This is a test of a new program on the iPod touch to do blogging on it instead of on the computer.
So far the only. Thing that i do not like is the size of the keyboard on the iPod screen it's to small and does not rotate but then the program does not cost anything perhaps what I have to do is find a better program
So far the only. Thing that i do not like is the size of the keyboard on the iPod screen it's to small and does not rotate but then the program does not cost anything perhaps what I have to do is find a better program
2008 a 100 or not
Not sure what is going on with Blogger as it now reports that for 2008 I did 100 Blogs? how did I do that when I last looked I had only done some 90 or so and with only a couple of days left I thought that there was no way that I would get to the 100. But it now appears that I have just done that.
So if the Blog count is correct I now have to chose a new target, which is 150 Blogs, looking back over the years I see that 150 is not that high a target so that's what I shall go for.
Other news that did not make my earlier Blog today was that I have updated the Dirk Maggs Productions Website, not a big update in that the only change has been the change of the copyright year!
Yeah big change... I know, but it is all part of keeping the website alive.
So if the Blog count is correct I now have to chose a new target, which is 150 Blogs, looking back over the years I see that 150 is not that high a target so that's what I shall go for.
Other news that did not make my earlier Blog today was that I have updated the Dirk Maggs Productions Website, not a big update in that the only change has been the change of the copyright year!
Yeah big change... I know, but it is all part of keeping the website alive.
So What's Going on Then
I don't know what has come all over me, I mean this is getting out of hand, in that I have Blogged every day this year so far!
It will not last I am sure, real life and work will see to that and with all the changes at work I just know it will.
But as I have a 100% success rate in doing a Blog this year I thought I might just enjoy the moment.
I do want to say here that my and the ipod touch are getting along fine. the only thing that I have that I do not like is that when you are in the apps shop and ask for info on an app or download it the menu always takes you back up to the very top of the apps list, this can get to be very annoying when you have got yourself some 3 or more screens deep in the apps listing.
As with all new toys they overuse has worn off a bit and I find that I use it as an mp3 player more but now and then I can collect my mail and all that sort of stuff.
The unit I have is 32G and I have 11G free, yes I know that an awful lot of music but then I like music and also podcasts.
It will not last I am sure, real life and work will see to that and with all the changes at work I just know it will.
But as I have a 100% success rate in doing a Blog this year I thought I might just enjoy the moment.
I do want to say here that my and the ipod touch are getting along fine. the only thing that I have that I do not like is that when you are in the apps shop and ask for info on an app or download it the menu always takes you back up to the very top of the apps list, this can get to be very annoying when you have got yourself some 3 or more screens deep in the apps listing.
As with all new toys they overuse has worn off a bit and I find that I use it as an mp3 player more but now and then I can collect my mail and all that sort of stuff.
The unit I have is 32G and I have 11G free, yes I know that an awful lot of music but then I like music and also podcasts.
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This is an image that I like a lot, one of the reasons being that it is very similar to an image I took sometime ago. NY is a place that I would love to go to
01 January, 2009
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst: Daily Photo #389
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst: Daily Photo #389 Just seen this picture from one of the Blogs that I read when I have the time. My two cats Mizzyb and Ant both always seem to do this when I have a camera around, why, not a clue, glad that I am not being singled out by the felines of this world.
1 and 99 to go
So I did not make the 100 Blogs last year in 2008 so can you guess what I want to try and do for this year? yes you got it 100 for 2009.
I shall continue to use this Blog as a notebook to myself and all that sort of stuff. It really is amazing just how quick you can and do forget stuff from a few weeks ago so that's what this Blog will continue to be.
I shall continue to use this Blog as a notebook to myself and all that sort of stuff. It really is amazing just how quick you can and do forget stuff from a few weeks ago so that's what this Blog will continue to be.
31 December, 2008
stone age
This for me is an image of a warm summer's day just drawing into the early evening and being in a place that has no cars or even lots of man made noise near you, even if only for a few minutes.
The last Post
Well I have made a last post of the year to this Blog, I see that I did not do 100 posts this year, but some 80 odd, so not that bad in the end.
May be next year I will get to 100.
Who knows
It will be fun finding out.
May be next year I will get to 100.
Who knows
It will be fun finding out.
30 December, 2008
Time
So the end of the year is very nearly with us and I suppose that I should see if I can do a blog for the last few days of this year, will I do it?
29 December, 2008
Dirk Maggs Website
Updates again to the site, some how or other missed a show that Dirk produced called Growning up with the Goons broadcast on 25 th December 2008 I must admit that I think we were just a bit busy with Xmas stuff and all that. As Dirk produced the show it has gone on the site as it is something he did do.
All I have to try an do is get to hear it!
All I have to try an do is get to hear it!
ipod touch
Well as I said earlier the touch is what I got for Xmas this year to replace a rather old creative mp3 player. So far I have found that it's all to easy to download free apps that you don't need, and the apps that you do want have yet to be written. I have also had the odd thought or two on how easy is it for Apple to redo the firmware in the machine as there as still a few parts of the software that come with the machine that just look like they have not been finished.
Other than that I have so far had lots of fun with the thing and have now only got 12G free...
Other than that I have so far had lots of fun with the thing and have now only got 12G free...
28 December, 2008
Cold
Just want to record here that it's cold here the stat says that it is 19.3 c but I still feel cold why?
27 December, 2008
itouch & all that
Can you guess what I got for Xmas?, yes that's right a new mp3 player, this time it's from Apple and it's a itouch.
My old creative mp3 player has done very good service, and it still works but as I am into podcasts it does not handle them, mainly because when it was made they did not exist!
So I am now in the Apple crowd along with lots of other folk and I must say for the most part the experance has been very good.
My podcasts are all where they should be and it all sync's nice.
What I don't like is that when i transferd some of my exsisting music it never seems to have the album artwork and this is for stuff that is in the shops and had been out there for folks to buy for weeks or months why is it? The stuff is very popular eg the albums are in the top twenty.
The other thing that I like about the itouch is how light and small it is and how nice the screen is.
As I have the 32G unit you can see why I needed one that big as I have already only got 14G space left on it!
So of course it goes with out saying that in early 2009 they will release the 64G unit, not that I need that much space yet!
My old creative mp3 player has done very good service, and it still works but as I am into podcasts it does not handle them, mainly because when it was made they did not exist!
So I am now in the Apple crowd along with lots of other folk and I must say for the most part the experance has been very good.
My podcasts are all where they should be and it all sync's nice.
What I don't like is that when i transferd some of my exsisting music it never seems to have the album artwork and this is for stuff that is in the shops and had been out there for folks to buy for weeks or months why is it? The stuff is very popular eg the albums are in the top twenty.
The other thing that I like about the itouch is how light and small it is and how nice the screen is.
As I have the 32G unit you can see why I needed one that big as I have already only got 14G space left on it!
So of course it goes with out saying that in early 2009 they will release the 64G unit, not that I need that much space yet!
26 December, 2008
Blogs and all that stuff
So for the first time in a while I have some spare time, and as it's very cold outside and I don't want to freeze on the mountain bike I start to surf the net and flicker and Blogger, and I have found some Blogs that have opened my eyes to how cruel and dam right nasty people can be to each other, and just because of choices and nature can get things wrong.
I have to admit to not thinking about some of the choices folks out there have to make, and what I have read, some of the things that they have had to go through I know that I could not.
So I have linked to them and I am going to follow their Blogs, their lives are very different from mine, but they are the same as me, in wanting the same things that I think all of use want, friendship, love ect you know the list of common things that all of us want and need, and most of us get some of these things, now as I am not that outward going in real-life and also on the net, I find that I don't have the guts to just drop a line or two, to these folk just to say wow your great in going for it and what you need to do to find peace.
So if you folk do some how fall over this site, I am sorry that I have not given you a nod to say go for it, but I have my own hurdles, I know they are nothing to what you have to go through.
May be one day I will be able to climb my own personal mountain...
Knowing just how bad I have been at doing this Blog, this could and I think will be my last Blog of the year.
I have to admit to not thinking about some of the choices folks out there have to make, and what I have read, some of the things that they have had to go through I know that I could not.
So I have linked to them and I am going to follow their Blogs, their lives are very different from mine, but they are the same as me, in wanting the same things that I think all of use want, friendship, love ect you know the list of common things that all of us want and need, and most of us get some of these things, now as I am not that outward going in real-life and also on the net, I find that I don't have the guts to just drop a line or two, to these folk just to say wow your great in going for it and what you need to do to find peace.
So if you folk do some how fall over this site, I am sorry that I have not given you a nod to say go for it, but I have my own hurdles, I know they are nothing to what you have to go through.
May be one day I will be able to climb my own personal mountain...
Knowing just how bad I have been at doing this Blog, this could and I think will be my last Blog of the year.
28 November, 2008
Dirk Maggs Website Updates
Yes, I know that it has been awhile since the last update on this Blog. But truth if it is to be told is that there has been nothing to report.
Work on my other projects has stopped. The reason sorting out stuff in real life like my job.
The only two things that have now changed and hence why this post is that I have started a very low level off-line project DMP 3 which is a technology test bed for the main DMP site and so far progress has been very good and the results from it have been far better than expected and getting results so early into the project has been a surprise.
The only other bit of news has been that Dirk Maggs has another production out which is due broadcast 29th Nov on BBC Radio 4 its called Boscobel if yet have the time have a look out for it I know I will.
Work on my other projects has stopped. The reason sorting out stuff in real life like my job.
The only two things that have now changed and hence why this post is that I have started a very low level off-line project DMP 3 which is a technology test bed for the main DMP site and so far progress has been very good and the results from it have been far better than expected and getting results so early into the project has been a surprise.
The only other bit of news has been that Dirk Maggs has another production out which is due broadcast 29th Nov on BBC Radio 4 its called Boscobel if yet have the time have a look out for it I know I will.
09 November, 2008
AE35 Episode 13
Just a note to me from me saying that episode 13 of the ae35 podcast has been done and published, or it should be by the time you get to read this.
08 November, 2008
Dirk Maggs Producer Web site
It has been a little while since I did anything on this Blog.
And has been even longer since I did any up dates to the Dirk Maggs Productions Web site, so I am pleased to report that the site has been updated yesterday (07.11.2008) as there is a new production by Dirk that is due to air on BBC Radio 4 next Thursday at 9 pm.
The show is one hour long and I will admit here that having had the chance to hear it I spent 15 minutes stuck in the works car park just so I could hear it all the way to the end. And I have to say it's time well spent.
I have to thank Dirk for the preview tape and the show is called The Johnny Cash Hi-Jack road show and if you can give your ears a treat they will thank you for it, the scripts and the production values and the actors all have combined in such away that it is an audio movie and the tension and fear that build up in the play, work very well. Dare I say classic Maggs?
It must be good as the Radio Times has made it choice of the day on Radio 4 so what more do I need to say!
And has been even longer since I did any up dates to the Dirk Maggs Productions Web site, so I am pleased to report that the site has been updated yesterday (07.11.2008) as there is a new production by Dirk that is due to air on BBC Radio 4 next Thursday at 9 pm.
The show is one hour long and I will admit here that having had the chance to hear it I spent 15 minutes stuck in the works car park just so I could hear it all the way to the end. And I have to say it's time well spent.
I have to thank Dirk for the preview tape and the show is called The Johnny Cash Hi-Jack road show and if you can give your ears a treat they will thank you for it, the scripts and the production values and the actors all have combined in such away that it is an audio movie and the tension and fear that build up in the play, work very well. Dare I say classic Maggs?
It must be good as the Radio Times has made it choice of the day on Radio 4 so what more do I need to say!
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