Where am I part deux

Where am I?

Where am I?

Got frustrated with Fireeagle and BlogLoc could not get them to work together. Then I found MoosTrax and I have got it woring, follow the link at the top of the page titled where am I use the pet password and you can see where I am.

Other features include being able to view a track of where I have been, but you will have to wait for that I need to sharpen my php pencil.

Young Victoria ****

Young Victoria film poster

Young Victoria film poster

Young Victoria is a film about the first turbulent years of the reign of Queen Victoria.
The best thing about the film is the politics and interplay between all the characters. The are some great shots, one where the young Victoria glides across a room with the camera staying the same distance relative, so the background disappears, an effect similar to the famous zoom in and move away shot of a scene in Jaws. then there is a shot if Victorin in a cathedral which is stunning while just being a very drab image. I would recommend this film.

Where am I?

I have signed up for the new Yahoo app fireeagle it allows you to update your location then present it to a webpage on the internet.

You will need a GPS enabled phone, a fireeagle account, a blogloc accoount then your off. Just create a page using the code provided.

If I give you the password you can see my location at http://neilbaldwin.net/blog/?page_id=934 and if you know my pets name you have got it.

Flickr account

I now have a Flickr account. Below is a sample entry, basically you can insert a Flickr set into a post. Here is a group of photos mainly fungi taken on a holiday during October 2007.

[flickrset id="72157614908348045" thumbnail="square" overlay="true" size="medium"]

Weight Watchers meeting?

weight-wathchers-meetingWent to Princes Risborough for a quiz to raise money for the Risborough Cricket club. It was held at a primary school. We were in teams of 10 and you had to bring your own snacks, drinks but fish and chip supper was supplied. We came 7th out of 10 but at one point we were 3rd.

Each member of the team felt duty bound to bring enough snacks for everyone one so we had enough crisps and dips to feed a hundred. Just we we thougt we might run out of snacks the fish supper turned up.

Cheap stuff

Try these for size:
http://freecycle.org
http://gumtree.com
http://preloved.co.uk
http://ebay.co.uk
http://schoolstrader.com

Walk round HMP Bovingdon

Field view

Field view

Started off the A41 at the services near Bovingdon. Parked near paint balling centre. There is lots of rubbish perhaps from the market.
Magpie, Chaffinch, Long-tailed Tit, Great Tit, Rook, Yellowhammer, Goldcrest, Robin, Kestrel, Fieldfare, Redwing, Starling, Blackbird, Buzzard, Blue Tit, Skylark, Red Kite, Wood Pigeon, Collared0 Dove, Mallard, Black-headed Gull.
The walk ended at the Bovingdon Market site, and it was market day. Helen did not enjoy walking down the stalls but we got some chips and vegetables for dinner tomorrow.
At the duck pond on Whelpley Hill there was a large rat on a bird table.

Gran Torino *****

Gran Torino film poster

Gran Torino film poster

The film is about a grumpy old man Walt Kowalski, played by Clint Eastwood, who lives in a run down neighbourhood where most people are immigrants or come from immigrant famlies. He is unhappy with the people in the neighbourhood and his own family. He gets involved with the family next door after the son tries to steal his Gran Torino. It covers many moral issues around religion and racism. It is a great film, made even better by the good storyline.

I give it 5 out of 5, and would recommend you go and see it while it is still on in the cinemas. To find out more about the film including more that you would want to before seeing it try the Wikipedia article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Torino_(film)

Film reviews

I have added a new category to the blog Film Review I like going to the pictures, and try to go quite regularly. I often can’t remember a film I have seen even a few months later, perhaps old age is setting in, so this will be a way for me to refer back to films I have seen.

I will try to do the blog entry just after I have seen the film, by email using the BB. Films will be awarded up to 5 stars.

By the way they have started pouring concrete down at the dump site, I will try to get a picture of the machine with a big tube that they use to pump the wet cement. Not I used concrete and cement in the same sentence because I don’t know the difference between the two.

UPDATE – Apparently cement is the important ingredient in concrete, it is the fine grey powder that goes hard and holds all the other stuff together.

RDP shortcuts

RDP Shortcuts

RDP Shortcuts

Here is a tip I find very useful. I find myself constantly having to log in and out of RDP sessions at work. Recently I realised that it is possible to create an RDP file, that is effectivley a short cust to a session. I have put all mine in a fiolder and linked the folder to my start bar for easy access. To create yourself an RDP file you just need to press the options button in the RDP connection and use the save as option, or if you are feeling adventurous you can create one from scratch in notepad as they are just text files. I created one from the terminal services client then created a template and create new ones from that.

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