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Dr Santa has been extremely generous this Christmas and filled my stocking with:

The Time Out guide to walks around London. Listing, among other things, a rota of the Saturday Walking Group, with the chosen walks for the book and the dates where people get together to do them, in 2004 and 2005.

Bjork Volumen DVD. Scratched, [...]

iRiver H300 Series
This is what I got for Christmas from a very generous Dr Santa.
(categories: iriver mp3 photo player video)

Converting video to play on a iRiver H320
How to install codecs (Xvid and Radium MP3) and VirtualDub to watch video on your Iriver H320.
(categories: encode iriver player video)

The Digital Audio Format Test
Two songs were taken as [...]

Trying to recover from:

SnowDays - It's always snowing somewhere
Create your own snowflake, write a message and post it
(categories: flash fun web winter)

As I approached the Royal Vauxhall Tavern today for a Holiday Monday show and saw it cordoned off, with police searching the stretch behind it, it was obvious something was the matter.
A policeman who politely explained that there had been a shooting in the morning, and the venue would open at 5, and would we [...]

What the Hell is the Fibonacci Series?
Small nice and clean Flash movie to illustrate a series of numbers where each figure is the sum of the two preceding
(categories: fibonacci figures maths numbers)

Free Online Photography Course
Section one on photographic composition is particularly clear and useful.
(categories: course design photography)

BBC Web Development Guidelines - Index
Simple yet structured guidelines [...]

Oxford Street, today at half past three, with Saturday-strong crowds rushing to the sales.

It's Boxing day, for goodness' sake! One is supposed to be at home, like, boxing or whatever it is one does on this day.
Come to think of it, it could all have been people going to exchange ill-chosen Christmas presents they received.
(Me? [...]

There is no public transport whatsoever in London on Christmas day.
So, if one needs to go to a friend's for Christmas lunch, one packs wine, champagne, Kath & Kim DVDs and panettone (Italian Christmas cake - not Dr B.'s favourite, as he sarcastically described it to someone as 'It's not stale; it's supposer to be [...]

The Trouble With EM 'n EN (and Other Shady Characters): A List Apart
The definitive truth about hyphens, dashes and valid character encoding
(categories: character coding dash hyphen internet web)

101 things you can do in Mozilla but not IE, by Neil Deakin (2002)
#101 (giant lizards are much more exciting than a blue e) is especially good
(categories: browser explorer internet mozilla web)

All the best.
Mister Bitful and Dr B.
x x x

I suppose there are certain things one only does at Christmas. Like waking up at 6 on Christmas Eve to pre-heat the oven and bake pepper cookies before rushing off to work.

Well, let me tell you: it was well the expression of disbelief on Dr B.'s face as he tasted the first of many, saying [...]

Yesterday I learnt something new at work - the hard way.
Having one of my colleagues switch on Capital FM (which has gone all Christmassy and only plays seasonal melodies) in the morning of December 23rd to make the whole office benefit from it is rather sweet.
Having it still on at 4pm, long after everyone has [...]

Recipe for Scandinavian Glogg
A classic Scandinavian hot spiced wine punch served with raisins and almonds
(categories: christmas cooking glogg recipe scandinavia)

Name the @ sign
Italians call it 'chiocciola' (= 'snail'). Because it looks like one.
(categories: @ email internet web)

Icelandic pepper cookies
This cookies are baked for Christmas in every home in Iceland
(categories: christmas cooking iceland recipe)

Almost two months from the conclusion of my survey of Central London coffee shops, I can certainly say things have changed.
It must have been some sort of aversion therapy, like when they ask you to smoke cigarette after cigarette, changing brands continuously in order to become disgusted and eventually quit.
Instead of two large americanos from [...]

Activity Calorie Calculator
Enter your weight in lbs, the time spent and get the calories burnt during 72 activities
(categories: calories diet sports weight)

Google Suggest
As you type your search, Google offers keyword suggestions in real time
(categories: internet java search web)

Box Lessons
CSS box designs for dealing with the misinterpretations of current browsers
(categories: browser css design development internet web)

Fontifier
Your own handwriting on your computer
(categories: computer design font graphic web writing)

Greg's Digital Retouching Portfolio
Sample image galleries - Roll over images with pre- and post-retouching
(categories: design graphic image photo)

Scarsdale Diet Support Site
Complete Scarsdale Diet site, from basic tips [...]

A little under two years ago, some time around my thirty-sixth birthday, I braided together three sets of twelve lengths each of red sewing thread.
I secured both ends with knots, then wrapped the resulting bracelet once around my left wrist and tied it with a double knot.
I made one extra knot in the middle of [...]

How to create an HTML table in PHP without pear
What to do if your host doesn't have the table libraries of pear installed - how to write the table yourself
(categories: database development html mysql opensource php table web)

Picture of spoof Chavopoly playing board sent to me by my boss.
My boss who lives in Essex. And owns Burberry's stuff. And was given "How to be a Chav" from his office Secret Santa (and probably failed to spot the irony of it all).
Click on the picture for a full view of the board (70kb [...]

So the sexiest men I know are growing beards these days. Lovely landscaped luscious frames to their handsome faces.
My latest attempt only confirms that I shall never be your daddy because…
…this is me from the left:

and this is me from the right:

The Bald and the Bitful.

I've been asked for a repeat of last year's Christmas meal.
Thank goodness for blogging to remind oneself of what was consumed.
And for Google to retrieve the original main recipe again.

I have bought my first nose and ear hair trimmer (a steal at £2.99 at Superdrug - battery not included).
Old age is just round the corner.

Bumped into Cherie Blair on the stairs at work this afternoon.
Yes her mouth is that wide.
The woman's got rhythm though - go see for yourselves at Cherie 'Disco' Blair.

So today I paid a huge black man to stick his hot tool into my cavity.
Yes, my dentist is from Nigeria (no queues around the block to register at his South London surgery) and seeing him is always quite an experience.
There is an adorable chuckling big mama of a receptionist.
A couple of skinny teenage nieces [...]

Inspiration: DG's collaborative work (four four-letter word per person to write a collective book).
Personal touch: these are the titles of all the posts on this website (many of which are four-letter words - in fact all of them since early July 2003).

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And, before anyone asks, I did not, I repeat, I did not sit [...]

This is the village where I am the only gayer - or perhaps not, judging from the two camp peroxyde blondes at a restaurant the other day, who could not take their eyes off me and my brother and mother (who noticed it). V. annoying.
One side of the village:

The other side of the village:

The church:

Country [...]

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Off to the land of my ancestors for the weekend, where I'll go back to being…
…the only gayer in the village!