kestrel

seaweed and shells
Originally uploaded by ramtops.

I don’t normally blog my photos, but I was quite pleased with my Photoshop tinkering on this one.

and go perlmonger; at last, we have a network card in the Tivo, and a web interface to it from anywhere on the LAN*. And tools to pull things off it, and convert them to other formats, so they can be saved and written to DVD. Given perlmonger’s utter loathing of hardware, it was remarkably painless although, with hindsight, we should have finished reading the instructions before he reassembled it and put it into the AV stack the first time.

this is very good *indeed*.

* apart from dorfl, the iMac in the living room, which currently seems to be quite sulky about conversing with other parts of the network. I shall have words with it.

George Monbiot writes a good article in today’s Guardian about the further predatory march of Tesco and its ilk, this time with regard to newspaper and magazine distribution.

and people ask why I hate Tesco; soon there’ll be virtually no choice anywhere for most people …

[edit]
more musings from Monbiot on the subject of supermarkets here, if anyone is interested

www.storewars.org

diligent readers will remember that we had a LibDem placard in the garden during the preparations for Bliar’s third coming.

last night, a hand delivered invitation came through the letterbox – to an American Plate Supper, as a thank you.

it says “please bring a plate of food” … meat and two veg? Kettle chips? Who knows. I shall e-mail and ask.

but this could be the start of our assimilation into the Kennedy clan. And for this, I’m missing Eurovision?

Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.

squirrel
Originally uploaded by ramtops.

taken at Ashton Court, Somerset on 27 December 2005.

cute little chap, isn’t he?

what we’ve all been waiting for – the Google Content Blocker

ladybird
Originally uploaded by ramtops.

spotted (ho ho) while I was doing some photography behind Temple Meads railway station today.

as Simon Schama reminds us in the Guardian, it could be worse ,,,