Category: Frippery

February 1, 2008

Industrious Clock

Filed under: Frippery - 01 Feb 2008

Have a look at the page below, when you get there it will take a few seconds to orientate yourself. Therapeutic, hypnotic, mesmerising or plain old depressing - take your pick!

Industrious Clock

January 15, 2008

Mail - Mac OS X Leopard

Filed under: Frippery, Technology - 15 Jan 2008

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Try this out - send yourself a mail message inviting you to a meeting. In the body of message in the middle of some text include the meeting time and date something like ‘Thursday …

July 4, 2007

London Underground by The Amateur Transplants

Filed under: Frippery, Reflections - 04 Jul 2007

This music video comes with a warning as the lyrics contain a lot of colourful and potentially offensive language. However, if you have ever suffered the worst excesses of public transport in either London or Wellington and …

June 11, 2007

Come fra together - localised Yorkshire dialect for when something is broken or not working anymore

Filed under: Frippery - 11 Jun 2007

At the weekend I was back in my home village of Gowdall, Yorkshire. I was reminded of this this local phrase that I used to hear the old timers use when I was a kid ‘come fra together’. …

May 27, 2007

South Park World of Warcraft

Filed under: Frippery - 27 May 2007

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If you have 5 minutes, this is well worth watching. If you are a World of Warcraft addict, maybe it will be the saviour of you or hopefully you don’t give a dam!:^)

April 21, 2007

The importance of signage

Filed under: Frippery - 21 Apr 2007

A sign in Vanuatu that conveys visually what this business is about. The explanatory words are there, but not essential to gaining an understanding:^)

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March 4, 2007

White Island - Volcanic New Zealand

Filed under: Frippery - 04 Mar 2007

The most volcanically active place in NZ (although not ranked highest in terms of risk as nobody lives there) is a fascinating day trip from Whakatane, Bay Of Plenty.

As always, I find such places …

Entoloma hochstetteri (a beautiful fungi)

Filed under: Frippery - 04 Mar 2007

Whilst walking on Great Barrier Island, NZ we came across this stunning fungi - Entoloma hochstetteri. An impressive blue colour combined with a delicate structure made it appear almost ‘artificial’ rather than a creation of nature!…

January 28, 2007

Comet McNaught

Filed under: Frippery - 28 Jan 2007

Last night we were out comet watching. Unfortunately, I don’t have good enough camera to capture an image of the comet, but just a bunch of us watching it! This link will give you a better idea …

January 19, 2007

Fritter your life away…

Filed under: Frippery - 19 Jan 2007

MusicoveryNothing better to do with life? Why not fritter some of it away at Musicovery.

Chose your starting tune by mood (energetic-calm, dark - positive) along a couple of axis and then browse …

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