Archive for March, 2009

Revenue Protection?

This weekend I have been in London.В  As usual, I took the train between Tiverton Parkway station and Paddington. Today, I returned, and I found myself contemplating about several things actually, but one of which I am about to mention to you. Although I had a completely valid ticket for the train on which I [...]

March 22, 2009  Tags: ,  Posted in: Public Transport Geekery, Railways   No Comments

Knightshayes & Grand Western Canal

Another Thursday, another day out taking photographs with the AS Photography Students… This time we went to the nearby National Trust property, Knightshayes Court, followed by a quick jaunt to the Grand Western Canal.В  As with the students, I took more photos at Knightshayes than the canal, but more importantly, today was the first day [...]

March 19, 2009  Tags: , ,  Posted in: Old Website, Photographs   No Comments

Eggesford and Honiton

At the end of the day on Friday, I was given one of the Nikon D40 DSLR cameras by one of the students who had experienced some problems focussing it.В  This was the excuse I needed to borrow one of said cameras over the weekend so that I could take some random photographs. So yesterday, [...]

March 15, 2009  Tags: , ,  Posted in: Old Website, Photographs, Railways   No Comments

Return of the 307 Bus

People who have known me for quite some time (those who knew me back at Secondary School) will know that for a short while I appeared to have a bit of a fixation with the 307 bus, the route which back then was between Barnstaple and South Molton, occasionally down here to North Molton, occasionally [...]

March 13, 2009  Tags: , ,  Posted in: Old Website, Public Transport Geekery   No Comments

Eden Project

Today, work was a little different.В  Instead of spending the day in Tiverton, a minibus was taken down to the Eden Project in Cornwall so that some of the photography students could take some photos.В  Of course, I wasn’t one to miss out on an opportunity like this, so under the guise of ‘Technical Support’ [...]

March 12, 2009  Tags: , , ,  Posted in: Old Website, Photographs   No Comments

More snow

Yes, OK – my life is this dull that two snow days on the trot I’ve made a post of photographs. Still, it’s not every day that it does snow and apparantly it’s going to all disappear by the weekend. Quite a bit of it has disappeared here today to be honest which actually is [...]

March 5, 2009  Tags: , ,  Posted in: Life, the Universe and Everything, Old Website, Photographs   No Comments

Snow day… maybe

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… http://picasaweb.google.com/richie.g/SnowMarch09 (all photos taken on my phone, and honestly [...]

March 4, 2009  Tags: , , ,  Posted in: Life, the Universe and Everything, Old Website   No Comments

Welcome…

Yes, I’ve decided to give up on coding my own and have joined the masses who have gone over to WordPress. I’ve copied the posts over from the old site too which was a bit of a pointless gesture really but I’ve always tried to keep the same things up and running and it was [...]

March 1, 2009    Posted in: Life, the Universe and Everything   No Comments

Musings on the Internet how it used to be

I’ve been thinking a bit recently on how the Internet has changed a little bit.В  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.В  I thought that if the Yahoo! search is being powered by Google, then surely I’d get [...]

March 1, 2009  Tags: , , ,  Posted in: Old Website   One Comment