Am I on Melbourne time? Am I on UK time? No idea, all I know is I’m not getting any sleep. Still it does mean that I can fit lots into my days. We’ve had 4 days in Melbourne following our 27 hour flight (1 hour’s sleep), and although it’s winter, it feels very mild. The sun is incredibly strong, given that it’s the equivalent of the end of January. We’ve visited some museums, including the MCG where we had …
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Woo hoo we have a shiny new office sign!
Not a moment too soon, here’s our shiny new brushed aluminium office sign
Taking off in a 777
Longest plane to fly into Newcastle Airport… … and I’ll be on it when it takes off again. I’m flying Emirates to Dubai (then on to Melbourne) on Monday 26 July and it just happens to be Newcastle Airport’s 75th birthday. As part of the celebrations, Emirates are flying a 777 into the airport – the longest plane to land at Newcastle, and 50% bigger than the Airbus A330 which normally flies the Newcastle-Dubai route. This means that I will …
Losing my keyboard input
This is something that has been bothering me on the odd occasion for years. It is intermittent, so is something I have been able to live with, but it would be nice to get to the bottom of it. Basically, there is a key combination – somewhere around the “A” on my keyboard, probably involving the control and perhaps the shift keys, and is so easy to accidentally press when not being careful, that locks up all my keyboard input. …
Screengrab tools
Was on the hunt for some software that would let me take multiple screengrabs. Eventually settled on Grab them all, a Firefox extension. Here’s the story! Step 1 was to create a list of URLs that needed screengrabs. I wrote an small PHP that printed a list of URLs (one per line) which I then saved to a text file: http://www.siteroom.co.uk/ http://www.consil.co.uk/ The first tool I came across was WebShot. The GUI interface is simple, but there’s far more flexibility …