I’ve been photoblogging through instangram. This city is so photogenic. I’ve seen a really amusing phenomenon though – heavyweight selfie errors. Selfie’s are huge here for some reason – I’ve never seen as many people doing selfies. The error though is where (picture the scene) – straight ahead, a beautiful vista or landmark or some such awe inspiring thing. Step… Read more →
Moving to a new country feels more like a new book than a new chapter. We’re bound to have several chapters within the book. I’m past page one now but still in the preface. It feels like I’ve been here longer than 11 days. A midnight landing a week last Sunday. The arrival at base camp 1 (Ibis Hotel Deira… Read more →
DragonDrop Adventures T-Shirt Shot I’ve not counted recently, but I think the DD T Shirt adventure club gallery is close to 100 now. Here’s the latest installment; me standing near the foot of the worlds tallest building, At over 828 metres and more than 160 stories, Burj Khalifa. Flick through the DragonDrop Adventure Club T-Shirt photo archives why don’t you?… Read more →
In 2003 Felix went on a school trip and went up the Eiffel tower. He had a word famous DragonDrop Adventure Club T Shirt on. Earlier this month, he went off on his own (well, with 3 friends) and re created the shot. He made sure to point out that as well as it being the same t-shirt (washed between),… Read more →
What a great spot Marsk-by-the-Sea beach is. It’s an overlooked stretch of beach – the maddening crowds head for the Rock Stars of that area – Whitby, Scarborough and the like (which I’m not knocking, very nice.. but) we were after something a bit more as nature intended. Marske doesn’t boast amusement arcades, stick o rock shops – even so… Read more →
This last two weeks have been amongst the most intense two weeks of my life. I’ve either been busy, drinking or asleep. Here’s a checklist of what I’ve done. • Delivered a talk in front of 100+ mostly strangers on my specialist subject of User Experience at Manchester’s User Experience and Conversion Conference. • Had 3 coaching sessions from a… Read more →
Film is ace. You drop it off, you wait a bit and then the joy of opening the results for the first time are way better than seeing the results instantly on a digital back. Mostly. As well as that, the results are often somehow warmer. Like the valve radio vs the transistor. Like the vinyl vs the CD. I… Read more →
M’colleague’s husband plays bass trombone in the Hade Edge Brass Band. They were playing today in the Band Stand, Wetherby. We wandered along on the wind of wondering if the ‘come along’ suggestion would come good. It did. Particularly, this bit: … Dave Smith on the Euphonium – Impressive Grandfathers Clock work. The whole band was a treat to watch… Read more →
It’s my first trip to San Francisco, but I’m not the first adventure club member to visit. Fionn was here 13 years ago (as you can see near the bottom of this DDAC archive). I re created his shirt shot by standing at the bottom of Lombard Street – the 27% gradient street somehow personifies a lot of what San… Read more →
This reminds me of how amazed I was the first time I managed to photo blog to DragonDrop.org without the use of a cable attaching my keyboard to a wall somehow. 13 years ago, I ‘field blogged a photo’ (from an actual field) for the first time using wireless GPRS to connect to the internet via a 9210 communicator and… Read more →
As I was driving down the A1M this morning, I saw the car in front of me (the silver one, mine is the black one) slowly drift off the road, then it looked like the driver was wrestling with it to get it in a straight line, alas, to no avail. I watched it spin around and smash into the… Read more →
Often when Grove Road School comes up in conversation, a comment that frequently crops up, is the lack of a grassy area in the playground. Parents want their children to have access to a green space during playtime. It doesn’t seem to matter that for most of the year their children won’t be allowed on said green knowl as there… Read more →
Even though it was raining for 3 out of the 4 hours I was out this morning, the technology enhanced dog walk I went on this morning, was most enjoyable. I found 18 geocaches (a personal best). I’d uploaded 21 geocaches – as depicted below – a circular route that someone placed on to my GPS unit (Garmin Etrex H)…. Read more →
Because my hand held GPS unit (as used for geocaching) knows exactly where it is in the world, it can tell you exactly what time the sun up and sun down in. This morning, I was at N 54° 00.814′ W001° 31.395′ when I snapped the above photo (just down the bottom of Bilton Lane, near The Gardeners Arms…. Read more →
For around about 8 years, I’ve had a perpetual new years resolution : “This year, I want to drive a tractor”. As a kid, growing up in part in a village where my bezzy mates were farmers lads, tractors were kind of a big deal. I think I’ve travelled in the cab of a tractor before – certainly in the… Read more →
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