Blog entries

Fallen heroes - two dogs that died in combat

Penn — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:14:13 +0100

Many people remember a fallen soldier as a person in uniform. Sometimes that soldiers the four-legged friend who saved your life by being a bomb sniffing dog that finds an IED and warns you about it before it explodes. This is a sad but beautiful picture of pure respect for two fallen heRead More...

Putting Google AdSense on your website

Penn — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:40:45 +0100

Hey, have you got your own website by any chance?

Fancy making a little bit of pocket money?

Well, I just might be able to help you there.

I'm sure you've heard of something called "Google AdSense"?

Ever thought about putting a few adverts on your website and then let other people make money for you?

I know this sounds like one of those "if it's too good to be true then it probably is" schemes, but I promise you Google AdSense can be quite lucrative if setupRead More...

Bradley Walsh hysterical laughing on "The Chase"

Penn — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 01:45:20 +0100

Come on Bradley, get a grip of yourself

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How to add a snazzy frame to a photo using Photoshop

Penn — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:58:42 +0100

A photograph or picture always looks nice with a frame around it, I think it's nice to emphasise a photo sometimes. Okay, the majority of photos on my website are frameless, but they are photos that are integrated into a paragraph of text. Framing a photograph using Photo shop is very easy and only takes a few minutes. There are many different ways to add a frame around a picture or photograph using photo shop, this is just my take on how to do it

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Using the crop tool in Photoshop

Penn — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:15:54 +0100

Sometimes you may have a photo that you want to chop down, maybe want to remove some of the unwanted background, or remove a couple of people from the photograph. If you wanted to do this with a standard photograph then you would use a pair of scissors to alter the size of the photo and cut out anything you don't want, you can do a very similar task in photo shop using the "crop tool". This tutorial will show you how

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How to resize & compress a photograph using Photoshop

Penn — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:25:22 +0100

Most people who take digital photos only do so so they can view the photos on their computer, there really is not any need to edit the photos. Nowadays most people have got fast Internet connections so it's even possible to send large photos over the e-mail without any problems.

However, occasionally you may want to edit a photograph to make it a little bit smaller, maybe you want to put it onto a forum, or even add it to your webpage. There are online programs that will do this for yoRead More...

How to download YouTube videos onto your computer

Penn — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 06:43:13 +0100

Ever wondered how to download videos from YouTube? Well it's quite easy, go to this website and its self-explanatory, piece of cake

http://downloadyoutubevideo.org/

Government questionnaires and people who don't deserve benefits

Penn — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:57:04 +0100

I was watching the news today and a news item came on which absolutely infuriated me. You can have a look at the news page yourself by clicking on the link at the bottom, however basically, the government has sent one of their questionnaires which assesses disabled people to find out whether they are capable of work to a young lad who suffers from Williams syndrome and has the mental age of a three-year-old. I'm not surprised that his father is angry, I can fully understand where he is comingRead More...

Get well soon Jon Boyce from Brixham

Penn — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:17:53 +0100

I got a total shock today when I picked up the local paper, there was a photograph of Jon Boyce on the front of the Herald Express. By all accounts him and a friend were out late last Saturday evening when Jon was attacked by somebody who may have either punched or pushed him. Either way, Jon hit his head on the wall and then the pavement and has now sustained serious head injuries. He is now down Derriford Hospital in Plymouth which is a specialist hospital for head injuries. I can onlRead More...

All aboard the wheelchair accessible NAB 23 Dory

Penn — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 03:15:49 +0100

I travelled up to Boatability near Southampton today to have a look at the wheelchair accessible fishing boat that I am contemplating purchasing. I met up with Nick and he took me for a nice ride on the NAB 23 Dory. It was an absolutely beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky and really warm, after all the horrible weather we've had it was just perfect weather for getting out there and turning up the throttle, God does this boat shift, a whopping 26 kn it will do.

As for the boat itself,Read More...

JCE editor keeps removing AdSense and HTML in Joomla!

Penn — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:27:51 +0100

I use Joomla! 1.5 for all my websites and I really really love it, I would never go back to using a website editor such as Dreamweaver, using Joomla! is so easy once you get your head around how to use it, it really is a fantastic content management system.

I have had a problem that has been bugging me for quite a long time. I first noticed it happening when I first started using Google AdSense on my website. Google AdSense uses a JavaScript to insert it advert on your website. The proRead More...

An update on my recent parking fine

Penn — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 07:04:58 +0100

This seems to be the situation as it stands regarding the parking fine I received the other day. First thing I'm going to do is hold my hands up and admit that I was at fault when it came to display my blue badge, although I wasn't the person who put it back the wrong way around, I am the driver and owner of the blue badge so I am therefore responsible for it. I parked in the breakwater car park and I was under the impression that everything was in order, I was display my blue badge and validRead More...

Invalid Parking Fine or Not?

Penn — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:09:03 +0100

A couple of weeks ago me and a friend went fishing at Brixham breakwater. A little later on in the day when the guys were here at the radio club, Derek noticed something at the bottom of my windscreen. It turned out to be a parking fine that I had received for apparently "parking in a pay and display car park and not displaying a valid parking ticket" I thought this rather strange since I have a parking permit that entitles me to park free of charge without having to purchase a parking Read More...

What the hell is wrong with some people who use YouTube?

Penn — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:30:04 +0100

If you are a regular user or viewer of YouTube, you'll know that you are able to leave comments on each video as long as the account holder has enabled this function. YouTube is extremely popular, nearly everyone knows about it and millions of people use it every day. I would say that the majority of YouTube users are decent respectable folk, however there is a small minority who trawl YouTube videos just for the sake of leaving abusive antisocial messages.

Following the sad Read More...

Fish Town, Brixham - entertaining if you can ignore the terrible poetry

Penn — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:33:29 +0100

We are now up to program three of Fish Town, a new series focusing on the people and businesses of Brixham in Devon. I wasn't particularly enamoured with the episode which focused on the annual pirate get-together that we have here in Brixham. The last program which was filmed in May was a lot more interesting, we looked at a 17-year-old lad who wanted to get a job on the trawlers. He had recently been kicked out of the Marines for getting a tattoo on his neck, silly boy :-) let's hope Read More...

Fish Town - a new series filmed in Brixham Devon

Penn — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 01:27:47 +0100

A 10 part series focusing on the town of Brixham in Devon started this evening on Sky Atlantic. Narrated by Kenneth Cranham this series which will look at the various characters and businesses that are located in and around Brixham has been filmed in the spring and summer of 2011.

We saw Barry Young who is chief auctioneer at the Brixham fish market, actually I know Barry. We also saw a few other characters, Pat from the Maritime who certainly doesn't mince her words, especially when iRead More...

Live Hedgehog WebCam in Brixham Devon

Penn — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:34:49 +0100

A very good friend of mine, actually a radio ham buddy some time ago started taking in hedgehogs, normally when they were very young and had not yet built up enough fat reserves to hibernate for the whole winter. Anyway, this project has escalated and he is now quite involved in looking after and taking an active interest in looking after these endearing little critters. He recently set up a live hedgehog WebCam in his back garden where at night, you can see hedgehogs feeding. Why not drop byRead More...

Legalising assisted suicide in the United Kingdom

Penn — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:19:05 +0100

I've been confined to a wheelchair since 1986 and in all that time I've never once thought that my life is not worth living. I cannot imagine what it must be like to want to end it all and cease living. A person must be suffering from the worst kind of depression to want to kill themselves. The business of whether euthanasia should be legalised in the UK has been ongoing for many years now and whether or not our government will ever allow the same practices to happen here in the UK like they Read More...

Unnecessary childish outburst from an Internet troll

Penn — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 05:14:40 +0100

The recent episode of Emmerdale where we saw the assisted suicide of Jackson has certainly caused a lot of controversy. I havebeen looking through a few websites that have covered this article and have message boards attached. Some people really haven't minced their words. Here is a quote by simon from hampshire

"Do not call these people scriptwriters and actors because it is an insult. Emmerdale is pure rubbish watched by the thick and stupid. Emmerdale, Coronation Street and mostRead More...

Beware of a scam going around

Penn — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:16:42 +0100

Just to let you all know of a scam thats going around the Asda stores in my area ...

Whilst putting shopping into my car , i was aproached by 2 stunning women aged about 20 wearing short mini skirts and rather revealing low cut tops that just covered their ample breasts ...

The blond one asked me if i would like to make love to her and her mate at the same time?
Well, naturally i agreed and we went to a secluded area where they both undressed and we spent aboRead More...