Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Life Stuff’ Category
Flying Over Liverpool in a Dakota
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007For as long as I can remember I’ve had a picture of a plane flying over clouds and mountains. It had that grey, crome look that lots of 1950 art had. It was the front of a card, probably a birthday card but I don’t remember it ever having the back. I do remember the […]
Thursday Thirteen #15 / Post 500
Thursday, June 21st, 2007My Thursday Thirteen this week happens to coincide with my 500th post to this blog so I thought I’d combine the two events. Here are 13 posts from the 500 posts by Mark Caldwell about having Too Many Ideas… My First Post which isn’t particularly exciting: Staring at a Blank Page. Favourite picture: A reed […]
WebShock
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007I’m feeling wiped out today. I wanted to start coding on a GUI for another one of my vue python scripts today but I really can’t face it. As if keeping up with the basic technologies that we use on the web isn’t enough there are all the frameworks and open source projects to consider. […]
Thursday Thirteen #14
Thursday, June 14th, 2007Thirteen types of dice Mark has collected in ninteen years of table top gaming… Solid four, six, eight, ten, twelve and twenty sided dice. Gem plastic dice. Large Dice (regular red six sided dice for comparison). Small and tiny dice including glitter dice. Wooden alphabet dice. Emotion dice. Novelty spherical dice numbered one to six. […]
Too Hot to Blog
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007Yesterday it was too hot and humid to want to do much of anything. Today, after overnight rain and thunderstorms, it hasn’t been as bad. Having just watched CSI I’ve just been struck that a more difficult “quiz” question than what sport had the victim played – a) Soccer b) Boxing c) Another wrong answer […]
One Way to Get a Little Free Advertising
Saturday, June 9th, 2007I’d like to thank a high street store and their computer system for my 2 for £15 being only £5.47. I can only presume was a data entry glitch that set the price of both items to somewhat less than they should have been. By way of ensuring that some sort of balance is restored […]
Thursday Thirteen #13
Thursday, June 7th, 2007Eight Random Things and 5 Thoughts on 8 Random Things and makes 13 (and answers a few questions I’ve been asked in the last month too) because I was tagged by She ages ago and only just got round to it… I’ve been blogging since 2006 as a way of trying to keep track of […]
Wordless Wednesday #9
Wednesday, June 6th, 20071. And Miles To Go…2. Katya3. Sue4. Donna5. toni6. Patois 7. Angel Mama ( Pearls of Wisdom)8. An Ordinary Mom9. kailani10. Jarid and Caydon’s blog11. fatblokethin12. Dariana 13. Kellyology14. becca15. TeaMouse16. LuÃs Carlos Petry17. Alissa
Widgetbox makes being a Cool Cat Easy
Friday, June 1st, 2007You know how the cool bloggers and sites have their cool little syndication widgets you can add to your site? You wanted one all of your own but didn’t know where to start to make one? Widgetbox makes it easy. Make a few choices, tell it where your feed is and it does all the […]
Thursday Thirteen #12
Thursday, May 31st, 200713 Things Mark Caldwell uses to make the web work that don’t cost moneyScarily I’ve now been building web sites for a living for ten years. I get asked by friends who need or want a web site to help them. Here are a few of the free things you can use or may be […]