Archive for the ‘Lifeblog’ Category

Three Months?

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Ok, I’m back around after a hectic – and very hot – three months away from this blog.

Three months? How time flies.

All kinds of things have been happening, not the least of which was a move of the main Rogi Castle from Loulé to São Brás de Alportel.

Moving in temperatures of up to 40ºC is not an experience I feel I ever want to repeat.

So, I’m back around.

More soon!

Flickr And…More Flickr…

Monday, March 8th, 2010

I’m getting to have a large collection of photo odds and ends laying around that don’t seem to fit anywhere, so I have rebooted my Flickr account.

I have also added a new page here to the site that displays the latest ten of my Flickr uploads.

Go Flickr.

Music To Earthquake By

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

In honour of this morning’s excitement here in the Algarve.

Here is a quick video of me in my kitchen as the earthquake took place.

Useful: FlightStats Flight Tracking

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

This morning I was looking for a website to live track a flight my daughter was taking from London to Zurich.

air approach track into zurich

However, finding live tracking that covered EU air routes was not as easy as I imagined. The US is well covered, but the EU? Not so much.

After much searching around I eventually discovered FlightStats, which offers just what I was looking for; live mapping, flight status, arrival, departure and delay times, and even free email alerts.

All in all, a very useful tool for EU flight tracking. Recommended.

Video: Come Talk To Me

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

The video of the day for me today is Peter Gabriel’s ‘Come Talk To Me’.

It’s also going to be pretty much the theme tune of my life for this week, I suspect, but that’s a different story.

Play it loud. It’s the only way.