It’s not every day you see St.George taking a stroll along the beach on the South Coast of England. With occasional passer-by comments such as “Where’s the dragon?” and “You’ll rust up on the beach mate“, the Lonely Knight (aka Colin Bickers) responds with random comments such as “What year is this?” and “Where can a weary soldier find a pint of English ale in this place?“.
Click here to view a selection of photographs from todays shoot.
The photo shoot is to promote the Lonely Knight’s upcoming charity walk which will see him carry a rose from Worthing’s Rose and Crown pub to London, arriving in time to cast the rose before the royal wedding carriage on the 29th April.
Visit his website here to keep up to date with his challenge.
He estimates it will take him 5 days and leaves Worthing on St.George’s Day. To add to the bravery of this gallant knight he will not be carrying and food, instead relying on the generosity of random establishments he may fall upon on his journey.
All charity proceeds will go to Chestnut Tree House, Sussex’s only children’s hospice which cares for life-limited children and young adults aged 0-19 and also provides support for their families.
Please donate to this worthy cause on the The Lonely Knight’s JustGiving page here.
Posted in Events, General
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Tagged beach, charity, Chestnut Tree House, Colin Bickers, knight, photo, photography, photos, Rose and Crown, royal wedding, seafront, St. George, worthing
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Explorer internet technology (Web 2.0 in particular) in a different way! Navigate across the Platform Plateau and traverse the oceans of OS and UI, pass through the Union of Social Networks and Enterprise Island and still be back in time for tea and biscuits!
You can even switch to ‘Aquisition’ mode and suggest what the biggest players should do next to increase their world domination!
Awesome! http://map.web2summit.com
Given the latest exciting solar activity that’s cropped up in the news this week (read the BBC news article here) we thought we’d share with you some photography & timelapse video we shot at the beginning of February when we visited Tromsø in Norway.
Click here to view a gallery of photos and timelapse movies of the Aurora Borealis.
The Aurora Borealis (or Northern Lights) is one of nature’s most incredible spectacles. Watching them dance about the sky is truly mesmerising and something that everyone should have on their Bucket List.
Posted in General
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Tagged arctic circle, aurora, borealis, movie, northern lights, Norway, photo, solar activity, solar flare, sun, timelapse, Tromso, Tromsø, video
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After a really successful year, Webination is continuing work for a number of current clients in 2011 as well as adding some new ones too.
We’re also looking to the future and will be concentrating our research & learning time on several aspects of web development. We expect these areas to skyrocket this year and we want to be in on the action!
Here is a list of stuff we want to learn and use over the coming year…
- More ModX & Magento work. Open source will see huge growth – expect huge advances in open source cms & ecommerce apps.
- Touchy-feely apps! More responsive web apps. We will do more cross-platform development. In particular we plan to get involved in some iOS (iPhone & iPad) projects as well as Facebook API.
- We’re going to try out Ruby. The tools and open source community is growing at a stupendous pace now! Definitely one to watch in 2011.
Happy New Year everyone!
I was half expecting it to be Julian Assange… but no, Time have gone for the easy choice: Mark Zuckerberg.
Some crazy stats about Facebook include the fact that one out of every dozen people on the planet has a Facebook account, they collectively use 700 billion minutes up on Facebook every month, the site accounted for 1 out of 4 page views in the US last month and membership is still growing at a rate of about 700,000 people a day! Some of those statistics just don’t seem possible!
A full feature on Mark Zuckerberg, Time Person of the Year 2010 can be viewed here http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2036683,00.html
We’ve just tried out RockMelt on OSX and are very impressed with the page load time. The social networking integration seems to work very well and pretty much removes the need of having a facebook tab, a twitter tab and any other news feed tabs. Google Search works nicely too.
We might even be totally converted from Safari & Firefox if RockMelt provide a ‘FireBug’ style add-on for debugging. Until then we’ll probably stick with Firefox though.
You can register for an early beta and download RockMelt at http://www.rockmelt.com/
Webination have no less than 4 exciting new projects starting in the New Year! Two of these are home grown projects which have been in the planning for a very long time!
We’ll be looking for volunteers to try out the beta version of these sites over the next few months so drop us an email if you want to help out.
Watch this space!
Oh ok. Just one more! Webination launches http://www.diymanager.com/.
DIYmanager.com is a new search and ratings website that is the first port of call for all enthusiasts. They aim to provide visitors with ‘Know.How’, support and contacts during the planning and implementation stages of your DIY project.
Webination was contracted to build a bespoke Content Management System (CMS) and fully manageable and searchable database of services, products, classifieds, jobs and tutorials. We also integrated with the Thomson Local powered data feed providing local services and products.
Ooh! Hang on! Here comes another one…. Webination launches http://www.printeze.co.uk/
With over 30 years experience, Printeze is an online printer specialising in high quality digital and lithographic printing with free delivery throughout the UK. They supply a range of printing such as leaflets, business cards, letterheads, brochures, NCR books, pads, posters, T-shirts and much more.
This site was built within the Magento eCommerce CMS which has a great interface for non-technical people to run and manage products & sales. It utilities online payments via PayPal and SagePay.
Posted in Launches
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Tagged business cards, CMS, ecommerce, launch, magento, paypal, printer, printeze, sagepay, site, website
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Webination launches the new VC-NET website. http://www.vc-net.net/
VC-NET is a fast growing, UK based business, backed by tier 1 institutional investors, providing video conferencing equipment and network deployment. They supply all of the big brand manufacturers along with the network infrastructure to make it all work. Over the past ten years they have built up an impressive list of clients.
This site was built using modX CMS and includes some bespoke modules designed specifically for VC-NET’s use.
