What a load of tripe!!!

From the BBC news site:

Creationist museum challenges evolution

man, I knew this 'Creationist' thing was big in the states, but I never realised that it was so huge, took itself so seriously, or was such complete and utter CRAP!!

Golf Lesson

I had a 'Woods' lesson yesterday afternoon. Since starting back after the winter break, my fade/slice has returned with a vengance, especially with the 3 wood and fairway wood, and distance (or lack of) was a bit of an issue.

The 'cure' was two simple changes:
1) Aim the right direction!! Yep, that old one back again. Seems I was overcorrecting for my previous aligment errors.
2) Make my grip 'Stronger' ie left thumb on the rhs of the shaft, right thumb on the LHS of the shaft. Seems I had slipped into using Alex's "Thumbs Down The Centerline" grip without realising it!!

By the end of the lesson I was hitting 170 yards - straight - with a 3 wood, and about 150 with the fairway wood

Video Podcast worth watching...

If you have an interest in getting the best out of Photoshop check out the Video Podcast by Bert Monroy called Pixel Perfect, you can subscribe in iTunes, but I would suggest the Large Format version, and watch it on the PC, not the small version on the iPod.

Check out his *MASSIVE* original artwork called Damen:

This is my latest and most ambitious digital painting of a Chicago scene unveiled at Photoshop World in Miami on March 22, 2006.
It is a panorama of the Damen Station on the Blue Line of the Chicago Transit Authority.
Adobe Illustrator was used for generating the majority of the basic shapes as well as all the buildings in the Chicago skyline.
The rest was created in Photoshop.
• The image size is 40 inches by 120 inches.
• The flattened file weighs in at 1.7 Gigabytes.
• It took eleven months (close to 2,000 hours) to create.
• The painting is comprised of close to fifty individual Photoshop files.
• Taking a cumulative total of all the files, the overall image contains over 15,000 layers.
• Over 500 alpha channels were used for various effects.
• Over 250,000 paths make up the multitude of shapes throughout the scene.

Week Off

Well, I don't usually do it, but this weeks annual leave coincides with school holidays, so I have had to 'Do Things' with my days off, rather than my usual dossing around and chillin'...

So far, we have been for a game of Pitch 'n' Putt at Himley, booked Alex in for some golf lessons for the next few months, plus one for me on Friday - I really need to sort out my tee shots...

There was a family 'Gardening' session on Tuesday. A rather old tatty bed has been completely cleared, and 4 Peonys planted, complete with bark chippings etc. In addition several hanging baskets potted up.

Wednesday was a day out, firstly Cheshire Oaks outlet mall, where I treated myself to a HDD-DVD Recorder from the Toshiba outlet: A RD-XS25 for £149 (160 GB HDD!!) In addition a Tog24 jacket to replace my previous well worn warm/waterproof coat (with iPod connector and fabric controls on the arm!!)

From there we headed into North Wales and spent a few hours in Rhyl... Which to be honest was more than enough!! The one end of the town by the Sun Centre is very nice, but the other end of the promenade by the 'FunFair' was an absolute dump!!

Today, I have the house to myself, Amanda has taken the kids to Worcester for the day, and I am playing with setting up the DVD recorder. But as the sun is now starting to warm up nicely, I may have some food and then go out on the bandit for a ride later ;-)

Another Record Month

Beating the record set last month by about 19,000 visitors, I have had 85,737 hits on the Rockbox-Themes web site in March. Almost 3000 visitor per day on average.