Elliott Rodgers

I’ve restored the Precious Gifts page along with a new gift and an old gift…. If you don’t know what I mean then you probably not meant to… If you know me very well and want the password send me an email or message me on Facebook.

On the 1st of March I took part in “Blog Splash” with Fiona Robyn, a UK author, who is putting her third novel Thaw online, one day at a time (SPOILER WARNING: if you are going to read it, do it from Start of Thaw).

Fiona Robyn was kind enough to let me interview her.

Thaw Synopsis

Ruth is thirty two years old and doesn’t know if she wants to be thirty three. Her meticulously-ordered lonely life as a microbiologist is starved of pleasure and devoid of meaning. She decides to give herself three months to decide whether or not to end her life, and we read her daily diary as she struggles to make sense of her past and grapples with the pain of the present. ‘Thaw’ explores what makes any of our lives worth living. Can Red, the eccentric Russian artist Ruth commissions to paint her portrait, find a way to warm her frozen heart?
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This movie has to be seen to be believed, it must have taken this guy weeks to do, I am in awe! It also makes me really, really tempted to have a go at doing one myself…. I realise of course I could never make it as good and don’t have anywhere near the patience needed!

Enjoy!

If that all seems like a lot of effort you could try this

This was originally posted in my blog on 18th October 2009

Photoshop isn’t one of my strong points, at some point I plan on learning a lot more about Photoshop so I’ve been collecting online tutorials to so I decided to share them. When I was younger I was heavily into Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, I think this is why fantasy photoshop images of dragons, wizards, magic and sorcery appeal to me so much.

I thought I’d start the tutorials off with a selection of fantasy and magic style effects in photoshop.

50 Imaginative Fantasy Art Tutorials

Tutorial to create an amazing dragon

Speckyboy kicks off my list with a collection of 50 imaginative fantasy art tutorials for photoshop including an amazing one of a dragon.

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For various reasons, I was awake at 4am and decided that Sheppie and I should go down to Lowndes Park and watch the sunrise… It was beautiful, the park and most of Chesham, quiet apart from birds singing. Ironically the best view of the sunrise was from my lounge window!

Anyway here they are:

Sunrise over Chesham

Sunrise over Chesham II

Not bad for someone who’s normally out of bed about 830am!

I’m getting a little better, I’m still pretty weak and feel tired all the time. I can eat now without having to rush to the bathroom five minutes later which is a massive improvement.

So things should start getting back to normal over the next few days.

Spent most of the day in A&E. Am unwell with more of the usual gastric intestinal stomach type trouble so will be away for a few days a week or two.

Sometimes you just need a simple image to use for a web graphic or photo. Sometimes you don’t have the time or energy to make one from scratch. So here’s some of my favourite ways to make a quick graphic.

Says-It.com

This is one of my favourite “sign generator” sites. It has a wide range of signs, although very American in nature including Church Sign, Drinks Can, Concert Ticket and a brilliant Delivery Truck. I used their Danger Sign on the Broken Hearted page. There’s an amazing 200 (yes two hundred!!) symbols you can have on some of the signs.

Says-it is popular so sometimes the server needs a breather and you have to wait for your graphic but it’s well worth the wait.

Advert on a Bus

The atheists in the UK decided they wanted to advertise on a bus, someone created a brilliant advert on a bus generator! I haven’t found a practical use for the image yet. Enjoy, have fun.

(On a side note despite being a Christian, I do support their right to express their opinion, even if I think they are wrong)

Atom Smasher

Another great site with some fun signs including the simply brilliant error message generator and the Chinese take away sign.
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So someone just had to try me on my Rules for leaving comments. Sadly you bottom-feeding pond scum, you picked the wrong day and the wrong time to behave like a t**t. This morning someone using Ubiquity Server Solutions decided to spam multiple times from the same IP on the same page. I know it was them as they had the same IP address each time. A screenshot of the spam comments and details has been sent.

I’ll update this post with any replies from Ubiquity Server Solutions… If any. I don’t count an automated reply telling me a ticket has been logged.

Update: Less than an hour later, had a reply from an Allen Jenkins saying they’d passed the complaint onto the customer responsible for the server oh and he added Thanks.

Oh and they used gmail accounts so I’ll probably report them to Google as well. After some marmite toast, cup of tea and doing the washing up from yesterday (I hate washing up so it’ll put me in the mood for a rant).

Added two more galleries; a Snowscapes Photo Gallery and a Sunsets Photo Gallery.