The austere grey exterior of York Minster, in the City of York, is a famous medieval landmark. Patrice Warrener and Tim Blake have created a new vision of the building; a colourful play on gothic architecture, projected onto the building itself. Photographer Daniel M. German captured the event on his website. Given Britain’s rich architectural [...]
Archive | January, 2006
Archaeology stories: "Site" by David J. Knight
David J. Knight has begun to publish some of his fantastic prose on his website. “Site” was written in 1997 and begins thus: There were four of us on the unsheltered top of a hill. The high winds took the sounds of our shovelling away. The damp sand was robbed from each shovel-load and scattered [...]
They've done it: Apple announce iWeb
Apple have just announced iWeb, their personal website tool, as a new member of the iLife family of applications. According to the live text commentary from MacRumors, it is just like RapidWeaver and Sandvox: template-driven, drag and drop software that makes it easy to build a simple website. Is this bad for Realmac Software and [...]
Sandvox: Easy website creation for the Mac
Karelia have just released their first public beta of the long-awaited Sandvox website creation software, ahead of recent rumours that Apple releasing similar software entitled “iWeb” tomorrow, which could (well, will) threaten their new venture. For their sake, I hope the rumours are untrue. Karelia have been shot down once before when Apple, who developed [...]
'Tis the season to be blogging: tehmina.org
Tehmina (my gorgeous wife!) has started blogging. Tehm is an historian, museums specialist, and regular commenter on Past Thinking (normally correcting my slip-ups). She’s written books too! Expect her blog to be wonderfully written, and to cover topics such as “Life, history, beauty, oranges”. According to her it’s “one small leap for one small woman” [...]
Archaeology and Music
Acoustic archaeology specialist and musician David J. Knight has begun blogging on his “Archaeology Soapbox“. David’s first post deals with “Archaeology and Music: Two Recording Industries“, which explores potential connections between the two. This part relates to the Music Industry. Since about 1992 I’ve been playing with the idea of an alternative industry that would [...]
WordPress 2.0
I have just upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.0. If you notice any hiccoughs with the site – please let me know! [Update] After some plugin weirdness (Spam Karma 2) all seems to be working again.
