I upgraded my cell phone yesterday and I’m now playing with download apps and posting to my blog from the phone. Testing 123 update…:)
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Nando’s Norwood for the Last Time – Dodgy Salad
October 14, 2009 – 8:13 am
Okay, so we get some friends round for dinner – we’re working on something so it’s going to be take aways from Nando’s.
Off we go to collect from Norwood Nando’s, bring it home, start dishing out, only to find that we’ve been given an already eaten, used serving of more than half eaten coleslaw! I kid you not! Take a look at what we found when we opened the box.
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We called the on duty manager and asked them to send us a new one, we are still waiting.
I tried to chirp about it on their website, but this is what I get “An error has occurred. Please try again later.”
What I’m definitely not going to be trying again later is Norwood Nandos, this is not the first complaint!
Testing Scribefire NOT!
October 8, 2009 – 3:13 pm
I was attempting to test scribefire for Firefox, which allows you to update your blog directly from Firefox, without having to do it from within your blog application. Sounds great, and simple, looks nice and clean, able to change text colours easily etc…
BUT I am struggling, getting very frustrated trying to add images which is simply not working and a post without images is just not going to cut it. So, excited as I was, and I see many others who also have this problem were – we are no longer!
If anyone knows the answer to the upload image (ftp) problem, any assistance would be welcome!
Just Upgraded WordPress 2.7 to 2.8.4
October 2, 2009 – 3:31 pm
I have been a bit nervous to do this update from all the things I’ve read, but was worried about the latest invasion so I just decided to give it a try. And so far it’s holding! I need to decide if I’m going to use WP or another CMS system for a new project so I hope Wordpress is stable and can weather this little storm. So far so good. I’ll let you know if the status changes. Because WE LOVE WP : ) don’t we?
My steps for the Wordpress update from 2.7 to 2.8.4:
From the link below on the WP codex: I did step 1 to 5
http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended
I then saved the database as instructed here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
and then from the Admin panel on your WP site, where it says Update Now – I selected that button and let Wordpress do an automatic update. It took a few minutes to complete it’s thing, but it completed successfully while I was testing to see how long I could hold my breath.
And now we’re up and running and I have managed to update most of the plugins and just want to test a few more things and do some more research for my new project that I think would be perfect in Wordpress!
If anyone has any other insight into the latest Wordpress story please let me know or comment here.
Aliens land in Joburg! District 9 trailer
August 14, 2009 – 4:43 pm
The latest District 9 movie trailer.
This is going to be great, Imagine aliens landing in Joburg?
Come on peeps lets support South African cinema, this is certainly a first here.
Fantastic Typeface Portrait of Steve Jobs by Dylan Roscover
May 18, 2009 – 9:40 am
Go forth and conquer your type!
This typographic image of Steve jobs by Dylan Roscover is a great example of illustrator, vector and type skill not to mention his attention to detail. I’m often involved in design and technique training and would love to give this type of exercise to the students, I think they would learn a huge amount from attempting this type of project. Love it. Well done!
How It Was Done | see it at Cult of Mac
Grunge textured backgrounds for free download
May 5, 2009 – 7:03 pm
I’ve was playing around with some textures, colors and brushes in photoshop for a grunge background effect and thought I’d share some of the files for free downloading.
The files are high res 3456 x 2304 pixels at 300dpi and can be used as source files for any application that you would like.
Your feedback is welcome and appreciated.
grunge01.jpg (unknown, 608 hits)
grunge02.jpg (unknown, 258 hits)
grunge03.jpg (unknown, 185 hits)
HMF.com handmade fonts for fabulous design
April 17, 2009 – 10:57 am
Take a look at this great site for some pretty fantastic “handmade fonts”, thanks for the link Luke.
If you’re looking for something funky – object orientated fonts, like paper cut out letters, ice, fur, grass and many more. Take a look at the link HMF.com and see the fantastic work these guys are doing with fonts.
I love this Japanese Mayo design
April 9, 2009 – 9:36 am
You may think I’m crazy, but this Japanese mayonnaise packaging is one of my favourites. Sushi chefs use it all the time and we all eat it in our sushi hand rolls or whatever they put it on. I also love it because it has good memories from living in London.
I’m posting some pictures of it here to show it’s simplistic design, just a soft, squeeze bottle in a printed plastic sleeve. And the cute little character illustration on the sleeve is embossed subtly on the bottles front. NO printing on the bottle – isn’t that great? Once you throw the plastic sleeve away you are left with this seemingly unbranded plastic bottle. I love it!
Oh yah, the mayonnaise is great too.
Let me know what you think, or show me one of your favourites.
Steers – It’s just better TV ad – true or false
April 2, 2009 – 5:41 pm
I lived in London for seven years and ohhh so true is this very clever Steers tv advert, it did make me laugh! My only disappointment is that when I finally made it back home, I’m yet to have a decent steers burger. What a let down, after dreaming about their burgers for all those years the burgers that I’ve tried are not the same. There may be a particular franchise or two that are still great, if so you’re welcome to tell me about them. I have had the Steers steak roll which has been ok to good. But I think they have a lot to do to live up the reputation that this advert is depicting. Just my opinion based on my own experiences.
Let me know if you agree or not, or tell me about a good Steers that you know of.