Wednesday 30 September 2009

Oliver medley

Oliver medley from Southend windband at the Southend bandstand at Priory park;


I love apple strudel and custard

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Adding Tweets to blogger

Awesome, adding tweets to your blogger feed is really easy. Just got to www.twitter.com/badges and follow the simple instructions.

Header/title returns

I've added the title as it acts as a link back to the front page... so maybe I'll remove the Kev's Web text in the image, or maybe I won't.

Comments don't seem to be work... maybe I'll try again later.

The video renders correctly. That's therefore a nice touch that you can upload video - but embedding youtube videos is actually perfect!

How about adding video?

Tried the video, unfortunately it wants me to upload a video. Lets try embedding a youtube video;

Testing adding some media to the post

Lets try out the web interface. Okay, so I can add a link eg. to www.kevingordon.org.uk. And then I can add an image?

This was from an image on flick, and how about uploading an image;


Yeah its fine, but always adds the images to the top, and you then have to edit the html to place them in the correct place.

Customising the blog

Cool, you can customise blogger using layout and playing around with the css. Harder than I thought it was going to be to get the header as I wanted it (hiding the header text, as my header title is embedded in the header image). So use "display: none" on .titlewrapper in the css (you'll have to add this).

Monday 28 September 2009

District 9 and drivers moan

District 9 was an awesome movie, I'm so glad I got to watch it. The story was fast paced and kept me guessing.

I was so rooting for the main chap and the aliens. Other humans were rubbish (as in kinda evil rubbish, not crap rubbish)!

Some drivers puzzle me, some scare me.

At the end of my road a car could have waited to let me go; rather it squeezed past me, forcing me on to the pavement.

There was a car - a car and a halves length in front in the middle lane of the 3 lane part of the A13. This car I am soon to overtake. A car then comes acclerating up from the left, overtaking through the rapidly decreasing gap between me and car I am overtaking. The danger they put all 3 cars in, and everyone behind us!

I have a new found respect for London drivers. London pedestrians have no respect for drivers. Two emergency stops and one quick avoiding action were required during my first short adventure.

Lights take 5 minutes to cycle round, only to stay on green for 10 seconds; when the slowest walker comes in front of your car, argh!!

Totally respect the beeping now.


Sunday 27 September 2009

Taxes argh!

A kind of alcohol, induced putting the world to right evening, I'll spare you our solutions, but here is my rant.

I'm inflamed with how much tax I pay. I would be happy if I saw something for it.

But trains are pretty poor (they'll always being replaced by buses), tube is always getting cancelled, unairconditioned and standing room only. Roads are suffocating with traffic.

I came out of uni with massive dept. Schools only help the average, so when I fell behind, parents had to pay for private tuition, or end up with an uneducated son.

NHS has never worked for me when I've needed it, so I end up paying privately. Same goes for others in the family, where we can afford it. NHS dentist, what's that?

Then we pay tax on everthing we buy, and then we pay tax on everything when we die.

Where is all this tax going? Really?

Saturday 26 September 2009

Blogpress

Found Blogpress, it looks far more promising.

Blogwriter iPhone

Blogwriter is a bit pants, need another app.

TGI Fridays

We went in TGI Fridays, had to wait for table. After a while, I asked when a table would be ready.

Suddenly our table was ready. They sat us in the corner of the conservatory by a draft away from everyone except an obnoxious family.

Was that punishment for being impatient? Should I have said something?

Friday 25 September 2009

Where have my posts gone?

Where?

Creating via blog app

There is an app for that. Trying lite version to check it works. Looks like you can't format it though.

Or maybe that's in the paid version.

Kev's web arrives at blogger

Created on an iPhone, compose doesn't work that well. I wonder if there is an app for that?