• Motorcycle Diaries

    Fantastic.
    Will watch this one many times over.
    Hardly anything to do with bikes (go figure).
    Its almost a pitty about the title as Im sure it has put a lot of people off watching it, which is a shame as a lot of people need to see it and would really enjoy it.


  • Kenny

    Both Freddy and I got motion sick watching this movie.
    Its all shot with a hand held digital handycam.
    I spent most of the movie looking at the floor.

    Just the same, its an interesting movie.


  • Snow and my Mum.

    My sister sent me this email today;

    “You know snow day this week how cold it was etc etc, when I got
    home the news man was saying how we hadn’t had a cold november day like
    this in 12 years! And you know what it was the day of mums funeral 12
    years ago that it snowed!! It hadn’t been that cold since then – so
    there you go – useless info!!”

    I think its rather interesting. I dont know why, it really should get filed away as useless info, but instead it makes it onto my blog.
    So, why interesting? Because I thought about it during the day as well. I was telling one of the guys at work that the last time I remember it snowing was at my mums funeral. Has it snowed between then and now? I dont know, the thing is, in my mind, snow (and all the more so, snow in November) is now firmly linked to the memory of my Mums funeral.

    Snow at my sisters work.


  • How to menu 101

    Had a longish and animated discussion today with Gary, Dan and Nick about the new menu along the top of my web site.
    I had set it up so that you can click on any of the top level (the root if you like) and get a web page, it was not clear to Dan, Gary or Nick that clicking on this top level was even an option.
    Nick said he figured it out eventually because he noticed the mouse cursor turn into a little hand, Dan and Gary did not notice it straight away because they were not looking for it.
    Also, most of the guys missed the arrows to show it was a pop out menu. Today I have changed the position and color of the arrows to make them stand out more (I hope).
    Lastly Dan did not like the hovering tool tips, so I have taken them out of all but the BRAT menu, I dont mind either way, so hence they have mostly gone.

    So, what do you think of the menu?
    Easy to see? Easy to use? Obvious that you should be able to click on the very top level?

    Im still messing with it, so if you have an opinion lets know. Leave a comment!