Alan Skerrett. Eccentric English Gent.

Ice Skating

On a romantic whim I bought tickets for the wife and I. The venue was the temporary rink outside the National History Museum. As expected I started off badly, then got worse, then slightly improved. The most noteworthy thing was my spectacular unnsteadiness. Other people are wobbly, yes, but I have the uncanny knack of randomly and quite sensationally going arse over tit. Can't wait for next time though.
By the way, all you single guys out there, go ice skating. You are guaranteed to crash into some giggling girlie at one stage or another; hilarity ensues, retire to the barrier, engage in delightful conversation, BINGO!

Bosch!

  Bosch! 
  Originally uploaded by AlanSk.

links for 2005-11-28

• Queens Arms, South Kensington.
  Love this pub. Cosy, pleasing decor, great lighting, beers galore, decent prices, a three-legged dog and a holy-sh*tballs car showroom over the road. Perfectamundo.
  (tags: london pub)
• Shikara, Indian Restaurant.
  Above-average food at decent prices, but why so sloooooow? The place wasn't packed, but the waiters/kitchen seemed to have completely lost the plot. Too much focus on the takeaways, methinks.
  (tags: london restaurant indian)
• Camden Arms, Camden, London
  Worth a visit just to see the short, good-looking guy behind the bar. He's hot. Ouch! ;-)
  (tags: london pub camden)

Lost starts to get good

Starting from tonight's E4 episode (it's about Hurley - the fat one - and some numbers), Lost really starts to fire on all cylinders. With just seven episodes left until the end of series 1, the flashbacks become increasingly intriguing and are limited to the main characters, which is nice. Bring on the numbers.

links for 2005-11-23

• Google Video of the Day
  (tags: funny video daily google)

links for 2005-11-21

• Bush slapstick pics
  Brilliant. This guy is a genius!
  (tags: bush gaffe photos)
• Bush in slapstick comedy gold
  BBC news has the video.
  (tags: bush gaffe video)

links for 2005-11-19

• DMSO: Many Uses, Much Controversy
  It's a solvent used by pharmaceutical companies. Kinda fascinating.
  (tags: solvent pharmaceutical)

Lost

Lost drives me nuts because I've been suckered into the mystery of it all, and feel compelled to watch it religiously, but every week I only enjoy about 10 minutes of it. The flashbacks, morality junk and twee musical numbers concluding each episode are so poor they make me want to scratch my eyes out. Obviously the bits I enjoy are the bits that bring us closer to solving the mystery, but I've read a little interview with the writers and so much of it seems to be concocted as they go along that I'm convinced the payoff will be a disappointment.

links for 2005-11-17

• PXN8
  Online photo editing. Wow that rocks.
  (tags: online photo editor)
• Ten Good AJAX Tutorials
  Ajax is a web development technique. Facilitates seamless loading of new data into portions of a page (i.e without reloading the whole page).
  (tags: ajax webdesign web dev tutorials)
• Interesting AJAX issues
  (tags: ajax issues)

links for 2005-11-16

• Hideous man in front of hideous powerpoint slide
  (tags: gates microsoft live powerpoint slide)
• Google Base
  Not sure about this. Can't see myself using it, yet.
• Spicy beef burger
  I'm gonna cook me one o' these.
  (tags: recipe spicy burger)
• Tate Britain | Current Exhibitions | Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec
  Get a digital preview of the exhibition with this room-by-room guide. I like Sickert.
  (tags: art exhibition tate degas sickert toulouse-lautrec)
• Kung fu hustle
  Ridiculous. Preposterous. Downright silly. But brilliant.
  (tags: film martial arts funny)

links for 2005-11-15

• Yahoo Shoposphere launched
  My project GiftyListy will blow it out of the water though
  (tags: giftylisty wish list social shopping)
• Intel-based Mac Minis in January?
  (tags: mac mini apple intel macworld)

Technical question

Hello there, Ken here.

I am a friend of Alan's and I always consult him regarding anything technical. Sometimes I believe his brain may be part machine! (it's not)

My cousin and I were chatting over fajitas the other week about technology, computers, etc. He told me about a chap at his work who had one of these iPod things. Apparently he can fit over one thousand songs on the thing! I mentioned that Stephen Hawking must have a very complex computer with a large amount of storage. So we got to thinking exactly how many songs could you fit onto Stephen?

If anyone knows, myself and my cous would be grateful of an answer. Apologies for the length of my post. Brevity, after all, is the father of invention. Bye for now Web Wizards.