http://www.ampersandindustries.co.uk Web development with Drupal and WordPress, consultancy and training in Cornwall Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:34:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When I used to teach Photoshop at Adult Education classes, people always used to think Photoshop could work magic, that you could cut people out of a photo and the background behind them would be suddenly visible. I blamed this on programs like Spooks that used to show this all ... http://www.ampersandindustries.co.uk/cool-photoshop-demo/ A great looking site after my own heart with a love of ampersands. This is going to go on my daily check list of sites: http://ampersandampersand.tumblr.com/ http://www.ampersandindustries.co.uk/ampersand-showcase/ no face to face meetings this afternoon so should be safe with garlic mushrooms for lunch # smugness from easy parking at blue bar for meeting offset by them being closed for a month # Still lunch at http://bit.ly/7aPoNv was very good so that helped make up for it # Hard to feel ... http://www.ampersandindustries.co.uk/twitter-updates-for-january-2010/ at royal festival hall about to pull sandi toksvig's christmas cracker. Stephen mangan guesting tonight apparently # Working in London, getting a bit excited that it's snowing. # Created my first book using http://www.blurb.com last week, just arrived. Very excited. # It's a photo book version of my travel blog from last year ... http://www.ampersandindustries.co.uk/twitter-updates-for-december-2009/ The 2009 Open Source CMS awards have been announced with great results for the two main solutions that we use at Ampersand. WordPress won the Best Overall award. Some recent examples of sites we've built with WordPress include this site,  21st Century Boy and Kate Kerrow. Drupal won the Hall of Fame ... http://www.ampersandindustries.co.uk/good-news-in-open-source-cms-awards/ Tempted by picture frame with "casual bevelled edges". Rather than strictly formal bevelled edges I presume. # On the look out now for one with nonchalantly bevelled edges # @camelwinemaker see HFW was cooking with your wine tonight on River Cottage # http://www.ampersandindustries.co.uk/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-11-22/ waiting for my train to truro in what feels like a windy apocalypse # atmospheric wind I should point out, nothing digestion related # http://www.ampersandindustries.co.uk/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-11-15/ @digitalfrost Don't know what's on with the map, I'm taking a look now. Can't see anything obvious. in reply to digitalfrost # @digitalfrost Are you still having problems with the map? Can't see anything obviously wrong; can you try again and let me know. in reply to digitalfrost # http://www.ampersandindustries.co.uk/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-11-01/ Looking forward to sponsors evening at Falmouth Ale Festival this evening. # @patroclus I've made a start! http://bit.ly/2APWvW. Should be open to editors I think if everyone wants to have a go. in reply to patroclus # http://www.ampersandindustries.co.uk/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-10-25/ @Queenchoo I was in row H I think. Not as 'stand-uppy' as some but was very funny. Shame ppl seemed more interested in heckling at times! in reply to Queenchoo # Multitasking with multiple monitors - coding websites on laptop and watching live feed and live blog of #likeminds on the ... http://www.ampersandindustries.co.uk/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-10-18/