Games!

Back in Business!

My word it's been a long time! My poor little blog has been neglected over the past few months, rarely having contact with it's owner apart from being used as a test site for various work-related coding. The indignity of it all!

After recently attending a course on writing for the web, I have decided that I should be practicing blogging/writing as much as possible - even if it's crap and even if no one reads it - just as a record for myself. I still feel this blog is a bit of a jumble of random stuff and I'm not really sure what direction it should be going in yet, but I need to start somewhere!

I WILL try harder in future! :)

Quite Possibly the Funniest Piece of Writing Ever

If I ever have to write a letter of complaint, I hope I can do it with as much style as this!

Dear Mr Branson »

Side-splittingly good stuff :)

Embed YouTube Channel?

Spotted a new feature on YouTube today allowing you to "embed a channel" on your blog/website etc. Looks quite clever, although unfortunately we're not allowing embedding for most of the videos on our channel so perhaps not particularly useful for us!

Long Time No Blog!

No blog in nearly 2 months? I've been busy y'see....

I packed up my bags at 10 Foxcombe Road and moved about 5 minutes over the other side of the river in Bath. It was a pain in the arse to unpack...

...but I met some lovely new housemates on the way.....

I said bon voyage to some good friends - Alison (centre) went off to work in New Zealand

and Suhanya went off to travel the world:

I bought a bike and went on a random trip to Bristol with my housemate Suz. I haven't used it since.

I saw the launch of 2 new exciting sites at work. 4mations.tv had been on the cards since I first joined so it was great to see it finally go live:

...plus the Aardman YouTube channel! Slightly less work but very exciting as I have been able to get stuck in with the production work:

I ran the 10k race at Ashton Court! It was hilly, it was hot, but it was a lot of fun. Lots of lovely friends and family helped me raise £150 for Cancer Research, which was then kindly matched by the good people at Aardman.

I went to London and did lots of touristy things with my good friend Lucy. I met a rather lovely guard standing near the houses of parliament......

And last but certainly not least, on Sunday I bought myself a Glastonbury ticket. Woop! Now I have to work on containing my excitement until next June. Sigh.

Think that's it for now! Next on the agenda is a trip to Glasgow, then Ipswich, Cardiff and then possibly a Christmas adventure to Arizona. Life is good!

I Haz Started Luvin Lolcats

When I first looked at ICanHazCheezburger.com I thought it was completely ridiculous and couldn't understand why people found it funny, but after returning there today I can't stop chuckling!



Who can't help but laugh at this, eh? Design and build wise the site is crap - but it goes to show that having an unusual and unique idea that captures people's imaginations is the foundation for a successful site and millions of hits.

Right, off to fish out some pictures of my old cats and lolify them!

My Droplet!

Got my hands on one of these little fellas the other week!


These little vinyl toys were designed by Gavin Strange, our Senior Designer at work. He came into the office and dished them out to us all in a Santa-like fashion, minus the beard and red clothing.

Droplets come in 6 different sweetie colours/flavours, but they are blind-boxed so you never know which one you are going to get. There's even a 'special edition' black and gold one which is made in a smaller ratio to the rest. Mine is named Refresher :-)

They make great pressies and are very collectable - I'm already contemplating buying another to see if I can get the pink and yellow 'rhubarb and custard' version. You can buy them worldwide from Crazy Label's store

What makes them even more popular for me - Droplet has its own Facebook page. I'm sold! :-D