Adam Turtle, Freelance Web Design in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Since1986
Archive for March, 2008
March 25 th
Monday!
Yesterday was fun.
Work
I started the day quite badly. Sunday night I worked the late shift at work, answering the calls until 10pm, then I worked the early shift on Monday which means answering from 6am. I forgot to turn my phone off between 10 and 6 and in the middle of the night, someone called to cancel their tour for Monday due to illness. 2am in the morning I answered my phone thinking it was 6am. I couldn’t sleep the rest of the night so I arrived at work exhausted before I even started.
Playstation
But I got off work at 4.30pm and walked up to Mission St…
March 23 rd
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter to everybody, joyeux paques tout le monde! And especially thank you to Lauren for the Percy Piglets, they were delicious!
March 18 th
St Paddy’s Day
It’s kinda sad that the American’s celebrate an Irish holiday more than the Irish. The biggest celebrations of Saint Patrick’s Day are in Chicago, Boston and New York, and in Chicago they even go to the extent of dying the river green.
San Francisco is no different. On Saturday they had the big St Patrick’s Day celebrations where thousands of ‘Irish’ people lined Market St appropriately attired in green to watch the parade go past.
I think I was one of the few genuine Irish people there that day, but I did feel very proud to be Irish…
March 13 th
Awesome
Yesterday they officially launched Hulu – a website with a very stupid name but lots of great content. It’s basically a video site with loads of TV channels and and movies available to stream for free. Most videos are pretty good quality, and the player is nice. There is limited advertising throughout the presentations but it’s much less advertising than you’d get watching these shows on tv – typically it’s about 15 seconds of ads per 10 minutes during half hour shows…
March 10 th
Baker Beach
This past weekend the weather was good so I spent Sunday afternoon at Baker Beach. It’s one of numerous beaches around San Francisco, and arguably the best. Usually when Valerie and I go to the beach we go to Ocean Beach which stretches the entire length of the west coast of the city, but it gets battered by the fierce Pacific winds and is usually quite cold. We went last week and stayed 10 minutes because it was so cold.
Baker Beach is much better. It’s considerably smaller and has a nudist section on the northern end…
March 6 th
Lifehouse at the Warfield
I went out to see Lifehouse last night playing a sold out show at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco. I was very excited about it since Lifehouse are one of those bands that rarely leaves the US, making this a golden opportunity to see them since I may never be able to do so again. And how did it go? Well, to be honest, it wasn’t great.
I arrived after work and met Valerie (the stereotypical Lifehouse fan) at the Warfield, which is a nice venue similar in size and style to the Grand Opera House in Belfast with a capacity of about 3,000…
March 4 th
Header images
I got bored yesterday during my lunch break at work so I added a little bit of PHP to my CSS file of this blog. Basically, the header image changes depending on day. 7 images – one for each day of the week. Decided this place needs some excitement. And no, I’m still nowhere near finishing my site redesign.
My weekend was nothing special. I spend Saturday browsing round a toy shop and remembering how much fun it was being a kid. I bought a frisbee and spent most of the afternoon in the Golden Gate Park playing with it…
