Sugarbutties released
Sugarbutties - a pottery painting studio in the Chester/North East Wales - now up!
See http://www.sugarbutties.co.uk
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Irony in Facebook
I must confess, I was slightly amused to see this advert on the left on my Facebook profile:
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New design
Well I've finally got round to it - this site now has a shiny new design!
It's much more focused on what I'm actually spending my time doing these days - web work, specifically ColdFusion related coding. I managed to finally move to CF8 in the process, and whilst I'm still ironing out some kinks, everything seems to work so far. The biggest problem I had with the move was a change in MySQL …
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Tolhurst Organic Produce now live
If you've not seen the amazing work done Iain Tolhurst & co. down in Reading, now is the time to check them out: http://www.tolhurstorganic.co.uk/ I'm still trying to work out how they do it - farming with no pesticides & no animal manure (hence their "stockfree organic" status) with everything seemingly in balance. On top of it all, he's just about finished building a boat - the Pinky …
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to all!
Early 2008 should bring about a complete rehash of this site (possibly without the blogging, we shall see...) - stay tuned!
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Jakoti Hand Shears now available
Jakoti Hand Shears are now available in the UK! If you've not tried these, they are superb; one handed and extremely sharp, they seem to cut through anything. We clear our allotment with ours :) Get yourself a pair!
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JamesMartin.com released
James Martin's new website has been released . Dr Martin is founder of the James Martin 21st Century School, University of Oxford.
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A Tale of Two Portraits: From Crayon to Computer
A particularly surreal webcast from the OII: A Tale of Two Portraits: From Crayon to Computer Artist Jeremy Sutton, known for his lively and colourful portraits that capture the essence of his subjects, creates two portraits of Ted Nelson in a live portrait drawing session using first traditional media (crayon / pastel / gouache) and then painting with digital media (Macintosh computer / Corel …
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The Golden Compass at Oxford
Was amused to see these highly CGI'd versions of well known Christ Church Oxford landmarks in the trailer for the up coming Phillip Pullman Film of the book..
Tom Quad (Blimp + tower added) Tom Quad (Blimp + tower added) Meadows Building (Gates + extra trees added) All Images obviously copyright New Line 2007 :)
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Reorganising!
Blog re-organisation time: essentially, I've moved http://www.oxfordalto.co.uk to http://www.oxalto.co.uk. Part of me couldn't be bothered typing in those extra characters each time :) If there's something you can't find let me know! I'll be updating the style and layout of this installation in the next few days...
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