The Richie G Website » phone http://www.stupidstupidity.co.uk Richie G: established 1986 Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:10:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Snow day… maybe http://www.stupidstupidity.co.uk/2009/03/04/snow-day-maybe/ http://www.stupidstupidity.co.uk/2009/03/04/snow-day-maybe/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:29:33 +0000 Richie G http://www.stupidstupidity.co.uk/?p=58 So when I got out of bed this morning, I was greeted with the horrible sound of my mum attempting to sing ‘Winter Wonderland’. Because it had snowed overnight.

It was still relatively OK though, but quite white outside. That was, until I got into work…

Snow March 09

View from my front door, 7.50am

View from my front door, 7.50am
A361 near Knowstone, around 8.15

A361 near Knowstone, around 8.15
Obliterated Roadwork Signs on A361 near Knowstone, around 8.15am

Obliterated Roadwork Signs on A361 near Knowstone, around 8.15am
Still on the A361 near Knowstone, probably around 8.20am by now!

Still on the A361 near Knowstone, probably around 8.20am by now!
... yet this was the view out of my office when I got in to work, around 9.10am.

... yet this was the view out of my office when I got in to work, around 9.10am.

(all photos taken on my phone, and honestly I was not driving while some of these were taken – there were traffic lights on the A361 which caught me up! Images hosted on Picasa)

Admittedly mainly this afternoon the weather down here has turned a bit so it’s a bit more snowy, but it’s not settling. I don’t think I could cope with another snow-day to be honest as I just get really bored.  I’m just amazed at how different a few miles can make in the weather – although it was a little cold it still looked rather summery down here when I got here this morning!

]]> http://www.stupidstupidity.co.uk/2009/03/04/snow-day-maybe/feed/ 0 Musings on the Internet how it used to be http://www.stupidstupidity.co.uk/2009/03/01/musings-on-the-internet-how-it-used-to-be/ http://www.stupidstupidity.co.uk/2009/03/01/musings-on-the-internet-how-it-used-to-be/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:16:17 +0000 Richie G http://www.stupidstupidity.co.uk/?p=18 I’ve been thinking a bit recently on how the Internet has changed a little bit.  For instance, I first discovered Google when first introduced to the Internet, by the fact that Yahoo!’s search was back then powered by Google.  I thought that if the Yahoo! search is being powered by Google, then surely I’d get quicker results by going directly there.  Now Google owns my life, not only in how I search the Internet, but I recently became the owner of a G1 mobile phone.

Yesterday while I was in the shower, for some reason I started thinking about the designs that have been on this very website in the past. I remember posting a copy of an old design which I found that had been done in MS Word, and other designs had been completed in MS Publisher and Dreamweaver before I started coding the pure HTML of sites.  One design that I remembered yesterday was composed mostly of lego, where all the page headings and the like were created in Lego and then photographed. I mention designs because I’m currently contemplating switching over to WordPress so I’ve actually got a website that works…

I’ve also been looking at some old websites that are still around, and earlier on today came across this little snippet of text: “If your browser can cope with it, there is a bigger version of this photo (1402×1170 pixels, 168 KB).”

I very much doubt that you’d need to put that on images any more…

I’ve also forgotton what the main point of this post was except to say that I’m still alive… Take care all.

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