Author Archives: Dan

Wedding directions

I’ve created this google map of wedding directions. You can print this one off more easily and do driving instructions more easily.
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The map above shows all the vital locations for the wedding on the 29th September. Have a click around on the icons and you will find that the beds are hotels, the [...]

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St Lucia – yeaaah maan! No pressure, no problem

Just got back from the Island of St Lucia, what a brilliant place. We stayed at the Sandals Halcyon in the North of the Island. Everything they had to offer we tried: windsurfing, water skiing (crap at that!), scuba diving – 109 dives now, tennis, shuffleboard, eating, cocktails, patois etc. We also went to the [...]

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British Institute of Persian Studies

After a few months of on-off work, I’ve finally finished the British Institute of Persian studies website. It has taken a bit longer than I expected as we’ve had to get comments from various stake holders on the committee of the Institute. I’m actually quite pleased with it and I’m getting more pleased with textpattern [...]

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Returned from skiing

Just got back from 7 days of skiing in the Alpine resort of Serre Chevalier. I’ve now managed to come down red runs after 10 days of practice; they’re hard man! An interesting trip with loads of snow and some strange concoctions called Dr Pepper.
Stu Ervine took some great photos, and they can be seen [...]

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Cricket world cup

I’m going. How great will that be, two world cups in one year; rugby and cricket – the two greatest sports on Earth!

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Another textpattern site

This week, I’ve been helping out Corinne Mills with the upgrade of her website entitled “Our Past History”. Corinne has been a great supporter of the Scheme that I work for at the British Museum and she’s just started to dabble with content Management Systems and plumped for textpattern. I’ve been using this for a [...]

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Experiments

I’m just building a new website for the British Institute of Persian Studies to replace their old one . And I’ve been experimenting with adding Google and flickr to the basic Textpattern driven content management system. I haven’t gone down a plugin path for this, instead I’ve used a really good idea from David Ramos [...]

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Libya and bike crashes

I’ve not updated for a while, but I’ve just returned from Libya after a whirlwind 5 day visit via Voyages Jules Verne. This encompassed trips to Tripoli, Sabratha and Leptis Magna. The latter 2 magnificent examples of Roman town planning. However Leptis is by far and away the more impressive and reminded me of my [...]

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Official photos – bro’s wedding

Dapper photographs of Nick and Rachel’s wedding can now be purchased direct from the photographic clown who covered their big day. They can be seen here:
www.cdouglasphoto.co.uk/pett
Here’s a sample of the mafia at work.

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Rugby season begins (for me at least…)

Hampstead took on Bank of England at their palatial HQ on Saturday, and with a rather makeshift pack we managed to win 22 – 17 courtesy of a last minute converted try. I’m suffering today as we were under alot of pressure at scrums, regularly retreating several metres. We did however manage 5 against the [...]

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