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Nobody could ever accuse me of being a fan of the Royal Family, but I couldn’t pass up the chance to see the Royal Yacht Britannia. The yacht was retired in 1997 and is now open as a museum piece. It took us a good couple of hours to complete the tour which was well worth the £10.50 entrance fee. Honest . It was really interesting!  The official website : http://www.royalyachtbritannia.co.uk/

Here’s a few piccies:

Royal Yacht Britannia45 pictures

Everyone loves BBCi player right? … well SeeSaw looks pretty good too. Programmes from BBC , 4OD & Five all in one place. OK, theres some ad sponsorship to put up with, but its only a small inconvenience.

Something to play with while we wait for HULU to  go live in the UK ?

Youblisher takes your PDFs—product lists, multi-page brochures, and such—and fiddles with them to make them behave more like printed catalogs. Then you can use your mouse to flip pages just like a real catalog. Upload your document and these folks convert your PDF into a Flash movie that they host, that supports this flip-through-it behavior. Your users have quick access to your document, and they don’t have to download a PDF and fire up Adobe Reader to look at it.

Not exactly obvious…but this might just prove useful on occasion?

http://www.pdfmyurl.com/

I went to see Cumbrian prog rock legends It Bites last night. It was a ’special’ gig at Carlisle Art college , being filmed by a small army of camera men for a forthcoming live DVD release.

I last saw IT Bites in 1986, so this was really an excuse for a trip down memory lane.  The opening act was Jon Amor a bluesman from Devizes in Wiltshire, (home of the delta blues?) . Poor fella had one or two technical hitches to deal with but managed to pull off a convincing set – I particularly liked his cover of Tainted Love (in a blues stylee of course).

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