7 - 0 to the Arsenal

These days I see my life getting taken over by football, a 7 year old son heavily into youth football and who knows one day may make it.

Tonight we sit and watch Arsenal perform at their best, with Theo Walcott starting in the line up and making an impressive mark on the match. My son Daniel was over awed by the match, he only has one thing in his sights and that is to play on the Emirates turf.

I have to admit that I love it all, from the freezing cold foggy morning screaming my head of at him to 'SHOOOTTT' to watching the Arsenal play.

I track Dans scores and matches and find it good to see how he progresses, which led me to start www.fscore.co.uk just completing the BE Datadase at the moment but an example can be seen at www.fscore.co.uk/myscores.asp now have to fill it will youth footie content.

A couple of websites

Just recently finished two website http://www.hillbillycreek.co.uk/ and also http://www.startthecar.co.uk/ both written in ye old ASP with backend MySql.

The Start the Car website is a re-write, and now has a database attached for the bands gigs, message blog and gallery.

Next up is a website for Graveley School in Hertfordshire a new set of rules and a new challenge.

Adobe Lightroom 1.2

I had tried a beta version of Adobe Lightroom and to be honest, did not think much of the software, slow loading, confusing interface and poor performance.

Recently I downloaded the trial of Lightroom 1.2, and after sitting down with it for an hour, can now see what a useful p[iece of software this is. The organsing of image is a chore and have not realy bothered before, just dumping them in a folder with the date on.

Have to prepare a presentation I recieved images from various engineering worksops throughout the UK. Images that were taken indoors with basic digital cameras, the quality of the returned image were abmismal. It took me a few minutes to sort, correct, lighten and prepare these images using Lightroom which did a fantastic job.

It's one of those pieces of software, where I think in a few weeks I will be wondering how I ever managed without it. - More on Adobe Lightroom and trial downloads

Fotolia Freebies

I received a lot of activity on my Fotolia account recently, in particular an image I took of my son Daniel's eye. This image is in the free section of Fotolia and from time to time appears as a free download. This particular image now has over 100 free downloads, who knows where Dan's eye mat pop up.

Fotolia is a huge resource of images, here I always seem to find what I want for a particular project, and at a £1.00 an image doesn't break the bank.

You can view the rest of my images on fotolia here - Fotolia