Archive for January, 2006

10 songs. impossibly heavy. macintosh classic II.

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

Check out this spoof of the current iPod Nano ad currently showing on TV and on the Apple web site.
Very funny!
Seriously though, it’s hard to believe the Macintosh Classic II only had a 40-80MB hard drive, but sold for $1,900!

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wales fact #5

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Wales has more castles per square mile than any other country in Western Europe.

View Yahoo! Maps on your iPod

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Found a cool site that allows you to view Yahoo! Map directions on your iPod Photo or nano without the need for additional software. Best of all it’s completely free!
1. Just go to http://www.ipodiway.com/, type in your starting and destination addresses and click on “Verify Directions“.
2.The next step is to click the “Get Directions” button […]

Calennig

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Happy New Year to everyone from cymru66!
In Wales it’s not just Christmas where the giving of gifts is popular. An old Welsh tradition on New Year’s Day is the giving of Calennig. Children would form groups and go from house to house, bearing New Year wishes of health and prosperity for the family. Skewered apples, […]

LlanfairPG

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Had an email regarding an earlier post about the longest place name in Europe and it’s meaning.
If anyone’s interested, here’s the translation:
The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio’s of the red cave.

My latest web site goes live

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

Today’s the day my latest web site creation goes live. Been working on the redesign project for a month or so and it’s my first real attempt at a standards compliant, CSS based site (CSS as opposed to HTML table based).