google docs

i'm not totally sold on google documents. i think it's useful if you've already got a document that you want to share or are working on with a group. using this service to create a document from scratch seems beside the point unless you're doing something simple. (here's an old file to illustrate) at the moment google docs feels like it's technology for technology's sake. just because you can update something doesn't always mean that it's going to be better or have more functionality, or that something else doesn't do the job just as well.

23 things - fredbaby

i've put a photo of my cat fredbaby on the wiki and mentioned him in an earlier post, but here are a couple of other photos i like. the first is of fred and one of my scottish cousins, jill at mum and dad's, where fredbaby now resides.

you tube

reading rainbow "at the library"



after having a look around, i settled on this animation. it's from a kid's show 'reading rainbow'. it's really far more about the joys of reading and the places books can take you, than it is about libraries. most you tube postings mentioning libraries are either excerpts from television shows (very good muppet show one and i love the one with cookie monster) or are introductions to library services.

love is all



this one used to scare me when i was a kid, but i was also fascinated by it. it was something that the abc used to play between shows. love is all, by roger glover (and the butterfly ball) i could have the details wrong, but this is what it said on the you tube page.

further google investigation reveals roger glover was in deep purple. 'the butterfly ball' is the name of the album. 'love is all' is the name of the song. find more biographical details here

google maps

here's the empire state building


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and a map of venice


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i love the abstraction of looking at maps from a distance.

final studio piece

a couple of images of my final studio piece.