Oh well, we say goodbye to plot 15 and hello to plot 7. What better way to start the day than to get a lovely e-mail from my local parish council, letting me know that a plot had become free just down the road from me.
I popped down last night to take a couple of shots - this was probably getting on for 6 / 7pm ish - but can you check out the secret visitor that has snuck on, after all this was rotovated and set up in April this year?

Yep, it's a lovely friend, Deadly Nightshade! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atropa_belladonna Getting it out is going to be our first job this year I reckons, then on to some planting. More news soon.

is a warm, marmite crumpet to get ready for some digging . . .

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Hmnnnnnnnnn, would love to give a few o these a go for 2010. Jan pot dales anyone?

So that’s a stress free kitchen floor replacement then …

its me, in polaroid form :-)

I have been on the Google Chrome trail now for a few days and my god its fast! If you haven’t got around to checking all your sites in it yet, some of the automated testing sites have been quite quick off the mark like [
Litmus ] and [ Browsershots ] but I don’t think [ Total Validator ] has caught up yet.

Anyhoo, hope your sites are well and you are enjoying the speed now anyway. It looks like Firefox 3.1 thinks its going to a bit quicker [ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/03/mozilla-fights-back-with-new-firefox-benchmarks/ ] but since that release is not out of the door, lets wait and see.

Anything that actually speeds up browsing has got to be a good thing I think. Whether or not Chrome is going to get market share is another matter. It was actually the Developer toolbar from [ Chris Pedrick ] that actually dragged me back to Firefox a bit earlier today. Those same plugins probably slow FF down a bit though, as most people like me probably have quite a few running.

Apart from speed, I have had very few problems with actually rending any pages **correctly**. Most things seem to have just appeared and ran quite happily, thank you very much! Its definitely becoming my browser of choice. Until next month…

For good accessibility, usability and lovely reasons, it is always good to have a transcript done of your online video. Most of the time this means using an outside agency and sending large files around. No more. Now, there is Casting Words [ http://castingwords.com ].

I first saw it mentioned on Bruce Lawson’s blog here [ http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2008/castingwords-for-audio-transcription/ ] and it looks great. Upload your audio and they generate text for you at a very decent rate.

Judging by a few searches around, it looks like they are using Amazon for payment, looks interesting [ http://turkers.castingwords.com/tutorials/getting_started.html ] and the style seems to have been widely copied [ http://www.futuregen.sg/business-process/transcription-style-adapted-from-casting-words/ ] - now just have to find some audio to get typed up. As soon as I have, I will let you know what the quality is like.