Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

Akihabara News is a great source of Just-out-in-Japan News, but today by way of a change, there’s a series of photo’s showing the effect of having a Starwars Stormtrooper wandering around Akihabara, Tokyo on a Saturday.

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Quay Arts - Alpha’s photos

Originally uploaded by Simon.

We went for a hastily arranged drinks do at the Quay Arts Centre in Newport this evening - Cheers Raff. Alpha’s been getting into taking photo’s, so was running around with my k750i, snapping her heart out. You can see […]

Anders & Christina, friends from Stockholm dropped over a couple of weekend ago. It was lovely to see them but one strange thing arose from the conversations was that the convention of telling time in England and Sweden are remarkably/alarmingly different.
Swedish say Half nine
To English ears: 9:30
To Swedish ears: 8:30
The Swedes mean half nine as […]

I like the thinking behind this video, as startup soundscommnets on Bush and Iraq.

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Another quick note from an IM conversation with Julian C, when I was telling him about he slightly more than a large rowing boat with a sail that Sal’s parents are generously talking about let us have
the best thing to get is an inflable - at least 2.7m with a 5hp engine - safe for […]

Earlier this evening I had a really enjoyable Web browsing session, unlike I’ve had for a long time.
It’s too late/early to detail it neatly now, so here’s the notes for later smartening.
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http://cameratoss.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/_nod/sets/876285/
http://wordwriter.blogspot.com/2005/09/urban-assualt.html
http://www.stuartsproule.com/
http://www.stuartsproule.com/movies/FleeVideo_47_2.mpg
http://www.designacademy.nl/main.asp?taal=EN
icon mag - http://www.icon-magazine.co.uk/issues/021/influential_3.htm
Concepts like “creative commons” – whereby others can copy your work as long as they acknowledge that you had the idea […]

Argh … that’s the last time … I had to stop command-Q quitting Safari. Too many times had I lost a screen full of tabbed web pages, simply by pressing the key next to the one I wanted. It’s a big flaw in the software.
A couple of different searches later, I found this workable solution, […]

How great, a list of the first 100 domain names registered.
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[ 18, October 2005; 2:23 pm to 5:23 pm. ]

Reuters House Prices Up and Down.jpg

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Whoops. On Reuters morning mail out today, they had two seemingly conflicting headlines.

Look at the 3rd and 4th headlines.

House prices fall at slowest pace in 14 months - RICS
House prices rise for first time since June

While both […]