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Tree fern opening at Waddesdon Manor.

Waddesdon is a Rothschild family home near Aylesbury and is managed by the National Trust. It’s a fantastic place to visit.

You’ve always had a hard time finding your place in this world, haven’t you? Never knowing your true worth. You can settle for less, an ordinary life, or do you feel like you were meant for something better? Something special.

Christopher Pike to James T Kirk

Star Trek (2009) – Quotations

The gatehouse of Charlecote Park.

I like the vignette effect caused by the polarising filter when taking the shot at 18mm.

Experiments with focus leading to an interesting effect in this shot of a Bleeding Heart plant

The avalanche has already begun. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.

Ambassador Kosh – Babylon 5

The vaulted ceiling of the Cellarium at Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire

Snow plus no flash makes for a very strange picture

Guns make you dumb. If at all possible, fight your wars with duct tape. Duct tape makes you smart

Michael Westen – Burn Notice

It’s been over a month since my last update. Work has been getting in the way…

The past month has been spent in a “study” phase for a development project that’s going to be the focus for half off our resources for the rest of the year. My time has been taken up in analysis and specifying requirements for changes to web applications and web services.

The Twitter widgets attracted my attention and made me decide to integrate them into this blog, prompting me to revisit and update the theme. So now, there are recent twitter updates in the sidebar of this site. There at least they’ll be updates several times a day – even if hearing only half of the conversation gets confusing

I know have 6 random examples of my Flickr photos appearing in the footer (they’ll change every time the page is refreshed). Really turned out to be simple – just a case of creating a badge using http://www.flickr.com/badge.gne.

After getting to the end of it the only bit that was really needed was the JavaScript in the code they provided. You can then change varying parameters to get what you actually want out – the obvious one being the number of images. If you change the parameter count in the script you can fetch back the number of pictures that you want (I chose 6 for the layout of this page).

If you need to change style then the images provided are in a div with a class of?? .flickr_badge_image that contains an image surrounded by a link. The ones on this page are simply floated left