Feel free to go and have a look - though I've not really put any content on there yet, and probably won't.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
HalWiki
I've been playing with various things, and have installed MediaWiki on halclive.co.uk as a learning experience. It's amazing how easy they make these packages.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Helsinki Calling
Well, life has moved on again since I last posted on here. I've made the big step of moving to Helsinki and look forward to spending many long, happy years here. It's still pretty bloody cold though at this time of year!
I've also made the (not quite so big) step of rebuilding halclive.co.uk; partially to show off some of my web development skills, but also because Blogger no longer does ftp uploads. The current set up is still not ideal as it's not possible to view or make comments on posts from halclive.co.uk, requiring a visit to Blogspot to do so - as such, if I find time I might make a custom system using PHP and MySQL. Any SEO benefits from this would be a bonus...
Either way, welcome to my redesigned and relaunched site - especially if you're a prospective employer!
I've also made the (not quite so big) step of rebuilding halclive.co.uk; partially to show off some of my web development skills, but also because Blogger no longer does ftp uploads. The current set up is still not ideal as it's not possible to view or make comments on posts from halclive.co.uk, requiring a visit to Blogspot to do so - as such, if I find time I might make a custom system using PHP and MySQL. Any SEO benefits from this would be a bonus...
Either way, welcome to my redesigned and relaunched site - especially if you're a prospective employer!
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
3 years later...
Wow it's been a long time since I've posted here!
Since my last post, I've been to camp again, I've spent a summer in Helsinki, Martha has celebrated her third birthday and I've come back to Edinburgh to do an MSc in Information Systems Development. A whole lot more has happened too, both good and bad, and although I'm certainly not planning on updating as regularly as I did in the summer of 2006, I'm going to try to update here every so often.
Coming soon: Camp Cal video productions from 2008, for which (in contrast to the ones from 2006) I did much of the writing, directing and editing.
Since my last post, I've been to camp again, I've spent a summer in Helsinki, Martha has celebrated her third birthday and I've come back to Edinburgh to do an MSc in Information Systems Development. A whole lot more has happened too, both good and bad, and although I'm certainly not planning on updating as regularly as I did in the summer of 2006, I'm going to try to update here every so often.
Coming soon: Camp Cal video productions from 2008, for which (in contrast to the ones from 2006) I did much of the writing, directing and editing.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Monday, September 25, 2006
Uncle Hal!
As of a few days ago, I'm an uncle! My oldest brother's wife, Anya, gave birth to Martha Eve Susan Clive just a few days ago. We went down to London to see her yesterday, and she's absolutely beautiful.
She's incredibly long-fingered and legged, and I was amazed at how aware she seemed after just a few days of life - she seemed to be taking in everything around her.
In other, less exciting news, I've got another Camp Cal video uploaded - a VH1 Behind the Music Parody following the rise and fall of Mr. Mullet and the Perms of Destruction.
Click here for full-size version!
She's incredibly long-fingered and legged, and I was amazed at how aware she seemed after just a few days of life - she seemed to be taking in everything around her.
In other, less exciting news, I've got another Camp Cal video uploaded - a VH1 Behind the Music Parody following the rise and fall of Mr. Mullet and the Perms of Destruction.
Click here for full-size version!
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Camp is over!
At last camp is over and I'm back home in Yorkshire. I'll try to write more about everything that's happened when I have the time to do so, but the main point of this post is to show you a video from Camp this summer that I uploaded the other day.
More will come!
Click here for full-size version!
More will come!
Click here for full-size version!
Sunday, August 06, 2006
The camperless counsellor
It's been a week since my last update, and a week since I've started in my camperless cabin.
I've had a great time, but as I expected, having no campers has led to this being an utterly different experience. In particular, updating the Bunk1 website has been a lot of work and been taking a lot of time - despite the fact that I'm given a free period during the day, I can only do the updates after the evening activities when all the kids have gone to bed. In fact, I'm writing this update while the computer is resizing the images to post on the web.
It's also been wet this week, very wet indeed. The storms here are incredible, with what seem to be solid walls of rain dropping from the sky producing raging torrents across camp. As a result, a load of activities on a load of days have been cancelled with special "rainy day" activities being run in their stead. While I'm glad that this is all happening in this session with relatively few kids making all of this an easier experience for the counsellors to sort out, I feel really sorry for the kids having all their activities disrupted when the weather for the rest of the summer has been so great.
Yesterday I had my day off, which as usual started with a night at a local bar, and continued with a bus at 8:30 in the morning to Pula (yeah, getting up at that time after a heavy night before was painful). We went to a small reserve near Pula called something that sounds similar to "Crematorium" - I think it was actually "Prematorio" or something. Anyhow, it was really beautiful, and we did a bit of cliff-jumping and swimming around there, which was awesome fun.
We came back via Pula and had a quick look around the city. It's an ancient Roman city, and has the largest intact Roman ampitheatre outside of Rome itself in the entire world. The forum and ruins around there were beautiful, and I only wish we had a little more time to do a little more exploring round there and perhaps have a look inside the ampitheatre itself.
Today, we had a special afternoon activity with a superhero theme. As one of the people wandering about both to miscellaneously help and to take photographs, I wasn't obliged to dress up, but how could I resist?! I covered myself with green paint, put on my angry face and became the Incredible Hulk. Everything went really well, much to the credit of the organisers, and we got some great photos too. Perhaps I'll manage to get some of those uploaded here soon too.
Anyhow, I'd better get back to work as it looks like all my pictures have been resized. If you read this Dad, get better soon - I'll Skype home as soon as the necessary computer is working again.
I've had a great time, but as I expected, having no campers has led to this being an utterly different experience. In particular, updating the Bunk1 website has been a lot of work and been taking a lot of time - despite the fact that I'm given a free period during the day, I can only do the updates after the evening activities when all the kids have gone to bed. In fact, I'm writing this update while the computer is resizing the images to post on the web.
It's also been wet this week, very wet indeed. The storms here are incredible, with what seem to be solid walls of rain dropping from the sky producing raging torrents across camp. As a result, a load of activities on a load of days have been cancelled with special "rainy day" activities being run in their stead. While I'm glad that this is all happening in this session with relatively few kids making all of this an easier experience for the counsellors to sort out, I feel really sorry for the kids having all their activities disrupted when the weather for the rest of the summer has been so great.
Yesterday I had my day off, which as usual started with a night at a local bar, and continued with a bus at 8:30 in the morning to Pula (yeah, getting up at that time after a heavy night before was painful). We went to a small reserve near Pula called something that sounds similar to "Crematorium" - I think it was actually "Prematorio" or something. Anyhow, it was really beautiful, and we did a bit of cliff-jumping and swimming around there, which was awesome fun.
We came back via Pula and had a quick look around the city. It's an ancient Roman city, and has the largest intact Roman ampitheatre outside of Rome itself in the entire world. The forum and ruins around there were beautiful, and I only wish we had a little more time to do a little more exploring round there and perhaps have a look inside the ampitheatre itself.
Today, we had a special afternoon activity with a superhero theme. As one of the people wandering about both to miscellaneously help and to take photographs, I wasn't obliged to dress up, but how could I resist?! I covered myself with green paint, put on my angry face and became the Incredible Hulk. Everything went really well, much to the credit of the organisers, and we got some great photos too. Perhaps I'll manage to get some of those uploaded here soon too.
Anyhow, I'd better get back to work as it looks like all my pictures have been resized. If you read this Dad, get better soon - I'll Skype home as soon as the necessary computer is working again.
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