Il Neige!

Il Neige, innit! :D

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neige

Bloodhounds!

Took this on Boxing Day - I think the girl in the window is rather nervous! :)

Happy Solstice

08:04 today was Solstice Sunrise.

Yah boo sucks to all those astronomically challenged hippies who observed it at 17:47 yesterday.

I welcomed the new year in my own inimitable style, at the M1 service station near Kettering, barefoot in the snow by the petrol pumps.

Happy Solstice!

Beasts

Doing the rounds last night I found 5 beasts* in the paddock - trying to herd them back through the hole in the hedge in the dark was pointless, so I shut them in and left them to it.

How exciting is my life? :)


* thats country speak for cows, it is, arrr.

Global Warming

I give you, The Ratcliffe upon Soar power station :)

(It made 'pic of the week' on the BBC News website too)

Entirely unrelated* very cool photographers are

Michael Kenna

Toby Smith

* OK They are not unrelated. Nah!

Smoothwall!

Ah, a great success over the weekend; Smoothwall now installed and the NTP server protected from the vagaries of Hackerz with L33t skillz - well, I hope so. Have installed snort to see whats what.

Best thing is I can now monitor what the systems doing from off-site; very handy.

In other news, the contractormobile passed it's MoT to cruise the M1 for another year! Blimey.

And I've almost finished the other internal stable's cladding, should get that done next weekend.

Not much else to report.

Silverlight - will the madness ever end?

I looked at Silverlight a year ago - when SL 2 came out - and built a photograph viewer with it - then I tried it on Chrome and it wasn't supported, so I went back to Flash.

This week I have been looking at it again in terms of using SL to display WPF content, such that I can write Smart Client and web based WPF apps sharing the same codebase.

Oh I wish. it looks like its still a bit of an integration nightmare.

But the real WTF here is this: A year later, and we're on SL 4??!? Whut? Blimey.