Ditching the Clients

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So just before Christmas the company I work for decided to stop taking on new design work and focus on their own project. At first I wasn’t sure it was a good idea but as it turns out, ditching all the clients was one of the best things I have experienced at work. All of …

Skiing up north

Mini break up north to the snow

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For the first time ever me and my sister decided to head up north to see what Scotland’s ski slopes were like. As we live near Glasgow we decided to head up the left hand side of Scotland and see what Glencoe was like. Having got a Thursday, Friday off work we got packed on …

Rocky Horror Show

The Rocky Horror Show

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Having never see Rocky Horror Show I decided to say yes to some tickets from a mate and go see what it was like. To be honest I had no idea what the story line was and maybe should have Googled it before going but in a way I am glad I didn’t because it …

Connecting WAMP to live database

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So when you are making a Joomla or WordPress site or any with php script you would usually have some kind of server program running on your computer to test it before uploading the site to a live domain name. For this i use WAMP. I used to use XAMPP but it broke so switched …

avenue-q

Avenue Q

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So a friend of mine text me and says, “you want to go see Avenue Q”, and my reply was, “I’ve never heard of them”. After a bit of googling I find its a show not a band, lol, and has puppets in it. The best way to describe it is an adult version of …

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Some holiday tutorials

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Over the past two years I haven’t really done much Photoshop work, so I decided to look up some tutorials and try some new things. So I did two tutorials, which were mainly just trying new filters and merging Photoshop files, which I didn’t know was so easy. The first  one involved setting up an …

Android and WebOS phone

WebOS v’s Android

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WebOS wins. Point blank. Ok i’ll go into a little more detail. With WebOS the interface is what it should be….. user friendly! Every application is opened in its own little window. When you want to close an application you get rid of that window (flick it off the screen). With Android each application opens …

Gamefest 2011

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So i’ll admit i’m not the biggest gamer in the world but my boyfriend Euan is so we went down to Gamefest in Birmingham to check out the latest games coming out. It was held in the NEC which is mentally big, and has crap road signs, but we got there. As you walk in …

Some new sites.

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Over the past few months I have been working on a couple of sites. Both are WordPress sites designed for very different clients. One is a site re-design and the other a new site. Depthcharge is a re-design of a html site. This new site lets the DJ’s update their upcoming gigs.       …