So today Tom asked me to do some research into places I’d like to visit in Denmark and Sweden when we go there after Wacken this year. We’ve been planning this little trip for a little while, but I never really thought much about what could be there. I don’t know much about these countries, just that they speak other languages and that the terrain is spectacular apparently.
Places I’ve seen (I’ll expand this list in the future) include:
Denmark:
- The Jelling Stones
- Fyn Island (or Funen), mainly Egeskov Castle.
- Copenhagen
Sweden:
- Ale’s Stones in Scania, South Sweden
- Visby medieval city on Gotland (if we can get there!)
- Stockholm
So back in England and working again. Here’s a couple of tech-related links I read about today:
Interesting? Well this is the first IE8-related article I’ve read, so I don’t really know what to make of it yet. I still am vehemently in love with Firefox, so it would take a miracle for IE8 to wow me. As for the bit on C#, just generally a nice little bit of code. I’ve not read through the comments, but I like the idea of C# object initialisers.
I still prefer LAMP though… I love LAMP.
So here I am sitting on the last evening of my short but sweet holiday, Hannah moaning that she needs a poo and has a stitch (charming, eh?). Just had my parents friends over for a spot of roast lamb which was rather tasty, and yesterday was spent in Sarlat in a restaurants that was plagued by power cuts (silly French, eh?). I shall be travelling home tomorrow from the excuse for an airport that is Bergerac, back to busy hectic Portsmouth, oh joy. At least I’ll have my X-Box back.
So Frosthold started recording on 19th Jan 2008, initially in the Old Blacksmith’s Studio in Portsmouth. We currently have drums and bass tracks down and recorded, although I haven’t heard it myself, apparently sounding good. Next step is guitars then vocals! I can’t really give much of a “studio blog” as I wasn’t there of course, I was in Durham…
So it’s been a few days since I last posted, I was a bit ill over the weekend, but fine now. I’ve noticed myself listening to Emperor a lot recently, as some of you may know, I go through cyclic phases of loving a particular band, and it seems this time it’s Emperor (for the umpteenth time).
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After a bit of a slow start as the marshalls were trying out a new game on us, we eventually got into full swing with a prison break. After that, marshalls got us going on the new game but slightly modified, but unfortunately not all went to play so we had to try it quite a few times. But then that is what Wednesdays are supposed to be - a bit of a social night, and a night to try out new games. After that we did a bomb the research lab with a twist (a doorbell which triggers a thermo explosion) which was quite fun, and at this point Hannah finally cheered up as she started killing people.
ComponentArt are really good. For those of you who don’t know, they make custom .NET controls. They’re well built, simple to use/program with and so on. In about 4 hours yesterday I managed to put together most of a drop down tree-view control using a demo they built (based on this) which is pretty cool. Just playing around with styles etc. now and should be finished hopefully at some point tomorrow.
So here’s thanks to ComponentArt!
So I had a blood test today, not nearly as bad as I thought it would be. Last time I had a blood test was when I was in hospital with Appendicitis. It was a doctor that did it, so I didn’t have too much worry about it, but the doctor managed to spray blood all over me and the bed and himself from my arm… nice. That was definately cringeworthy. The nurse who did mine today was friendly, but I still dreaded it remembering the blood spray of days past.
My doc’s appointment was not as bad as I was dreading either yesterday, he was sympathetic and understanding and I explained everything the best I could. He said I should start feeling better in a couple of weeks, and I’ll be seeing him on 1st Feb for a check-up.
I hate it. It’s far too complex. MySQL is a nice simple query language (no pun intended), why can’t T-SQL be the same. It’s been fustrating me for hours. That’s all I have to say.
