http://www.neuroticcamel.com Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:23:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The BBC News website has published a selection of photos as a year in review that makes for depressing viewing. Of the 17 pictures posted there, 13 of them are about bad news - violence in Kenya and the DR Congo, Amazonian land disputes, natural disasters, wars in Afghanistan, Iraq ... http://www.neuroticcamel.com/2008/12/30/bbc-pictorial-year-in-review/ How good is your perception of colour? Can you easily discriminate between and order hues? Test yourself here - http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77. The lower your score, the better, with 0 being a perfect eye for hues and shades, and around 1000 being the default (unordered) score. My best score was 12, with a ... http://www.neuroticcamel.com/2008/10/01/colour-iq/ I had a City Council Pest Control guy round yesterday to sort out a wasps nest I'd discovered in the electricity meter cupboard on the side of my house. He took a look at it in the corner of the meter cupboard, listened as I said they were entering underneath ... http://www.neuroticcamel.com/2008/09/26/wasps/ My youngest sister, Jude, got married on Saturday to her fiancé Liam. I think she looked gorgeous.    The wedding service was at St Chad's in Hopwas, a small but beautiful little church in a village just outside of Tamworth. Yes, I did shed a tear or two. Thankfully, I was sat ... http://www.neuroticcamel.com/2008/09/22/jude-and-liams-wedding/ Worldle.net lets you create images generated from the frequency of words on your website. Some of them are visually stunning. You can also tweak the colours, fonts, and layout of the images. [note that your website must have an Atom or RSS feed for this to work] http://www.neuroticcamel.com/2008/09/17/a-visual-holiday/ We tendered off the coast of the sunny island of Santorini early in the morning, and Nan and I waited until a little later in the morning before catching the shuttle boat to avoid a queue. As it turned out, we had to contend with a queue anyway on the ... http://www.neuroticcamel.com/2008/08/30/day-7-santorini/ Rhodes turned out to be something of a non-starter for us. We woke up late, and Nan wasn't feeling too well, so we decided to take it easy instead. Both of us booked treatments at the AquaSpa; a hair appointment for Nan, and an Aromastonetherapy full massage for me. I spent ... http://www.neuroticcamel.com/2008/08/30/day-6-rhodes/ By the time (the hideously early) morning came round, we'd left behind the choppy seas of the Dodecanese, and were pulling into Kusadasi in Turkey. The last time I visited Kusadasi was on the second week of a 2-week holiday with my brother Chris 11 years ago. We spent the ... http://www.neuroticcamel.com/2008/08/28/day-5-kusadasi-ephesus/ Sailing into Mykonos in the morning was probably the best port arrival to date. The island was blessed with a really strong breeze that, after the heat of Athens, was an amazing relief. With no tour planned, Nan and I had a lie in, before getting up for breakfast then heading ... http://www.neuroticcamel.com/2008/08/28/day-4-mykonos/ The ship docked at Piraeus early on Tuesday morning. By the time Nan and I woke up, the ship was stationary in port. After 24 hours at sea, it was strange to open the curtains and see land outside! Stepping out onto the veranda was like stepping into an oven. ... http://www.neuroticcamel.com/2008/08/26/day-3-piraeus-athens/