A tad late, but hey :) Photo Friday theme was Critters. Thats my hamster, Chi.

Bloginality: the INTP personality

My Bloginality is INTP!!!

Mind Media Brain Persuasion Test

Pete, you possess an interesting balance of hemispheric and sensory characteristics, with a slight right-brain dominance and a slight preference for visual processing.

Since neither of these is completely centered, you lack the indecision and second-guessing associated with other patterns. You have a distinct preference for creativity and intuition with seemingly sufficient verbal skills to be able to translate in any meaningful way to yourself and others.

You tend to see things in "wholes" without surrendering the ability to attend to details. You can give them sufficient notice to be able to utitlize and incorporate them as part of an overall pattern.

In the same way, while you are active and process information simultaneously, you demonstrate a capacity for sequencing as well as reflection which allows for some "inner dialogue."

All in all, you are likely to be quite content with yourself and your style although at times it will not necessarily be appreciated by others. You have sufficient confidence to not second-guess yourself, but rather to use your critical faculties in a way that enhances, rather than limits, your creativity.

You can learn in either mode although far more efficiently within the visual mode. It is likely that in listening to conversations or lecture materials you simultaneously translate into pictures which enhance and elaborate on the meaning.

It is most likely that you will gravitate towards those endeavors which are predominantly visual but include some logic or structuring. You may either work particularly hard at cultivating your auditory skills or risk "missing out" on being able to efficiently process what you learn. Your own intuitive skills will at times interfere with your capacity to listen to others, which is something else you may need to take into account.

Some intresting things in the web stats. Turns out that only 50.6% of my visitors use IE of some variety. So if I was a dweeb and designed for IE only, i'd be completely screwing over 49.4% of my visitors. Now thats a lot, but still only percentages. In normal terms thats 7072 hits or about 62 people each month being pissed off that my site doesn't work in their browser.

Speaking of standards, I hear that Designing With Web Standards is a very good book, and for probably the first time ever I'm quite looking forward to buyin a book. I've read a bit of Zeldman's site and he has similar ideas to me about the web, so it'll be a good read me thinks. Apparently its not mind blowing if you've been around for a while, but it'll be good to sort out my head i think on CSS / XHTML as I'm still a bit hazy about a few things. For example, in designing the new LSR site I discovered a really nice glitch in the box model in pretty much all browsers. You can't really do the auto vertical height thing you can with tables. There is a work around via javascript, but it would be a lot nicer to have it just work. Now, given the recent statement by Microsoft, that IE for Mac is dead and that they're also killing of IE for Windows life is gunna suck browser wise for a while. All those peeps saying "IE rules!! Design for IE cos it works!!" are dumb, as if they try and actually make a good site it they'll find the problems as I did. Its gunna be a case of fixing things to work in IE when they work fine in Opera or Mozilla. Total flipside to 4yrs ago.

"In other words, for the next two years, 85% of the web using population will have buggy support for CSS float, no support at all for adjacent sibling selectors, and no hope of PNG transparency unless developers are willing to write proprietary, IE-only code or deploy sophisticated JavaScript workarounds to make IE/Win do what other modern browsers do natively. Not to mention IE/Win ’s known caching problems with background images and its insistence on displaying the a:active state even when a link is no longer active. Can anyone tell us how two more years of flawed standards support is supposed to be a good thing?" - Zeldman

Taken at night, of my fibre optic tree lamp thing.

layer one

name: Peter Carr
birth date: 27th September 1978
birthplace: Wrexham, Wales
current location: Wirral, UK
eye color: greenish
hair color: brown
height: 6 foot, 5
righty or lefty: right
zodiac sign: libra

more inside :)

layer two

your heritage: welsh, afaik
the shoes you wore today: nike thingies
your weakness: a great angle :D
your fears: opening up
your perfect pizza: sausage, hold the rest :D
goal you'd like to achieve: getting clients :D

layer three

your most overused phrase on MSN: hehe
your first waking thoughts: open eyes, get to pc
your best physical feature: my head?
your most missed memory: times when things weren't corrupted by people

layer four

pepsi or coke: coke...god COKE!! (coke = migranes, god i miss it)
mcdonald's or burger king: burger king
single or group dates: ANY PLEASE!!!
lipton ice tea or nestea: er... i mean to try ice tea tho
chocolate or vanilla: chocolate!!! (but that also = migrane)
cappuccino or coffee: cappuccino

layer five

smoke: no
cuss: i've been known to
sing: haha, no effin way
take a shower everyday: pretty much
do you think you've been in love: yus
want to go to college: been there done that, although if i had the money i might do a degree in photography just for fun
liked high school: meh
want to get married: yer fink so
believe in yourself: yer pretty much
get motion sickness: don't think so
think you're attractive: i wish
think you're a health freak: in an odd way yus
get along with your parent(s): yer
play an instrument: did

layer six
in the past month...

drank alcohol: yer
smoked: no
done a drug: no
made out: haha no
gone on a date: lol NO!
eaten an entire box of oreos?: no, but pringles \o/
eaten sushi: ew no
been on stage: no
been dumped: no
gone skating: no
made homemade cookies: no
gone skinny dipping: lol i wish, but no
dyed your hair: no
stolen anything: no
you sound boring: bite me :p

layer seven
ever...

played a game that required removal of clothing: no
if so, was it mixed company: -
been trashed or extremely intoxicated: no
been caught "doing something": no
been called a tease: no
gotten beaten up: no
shoplifted: no
changed who you were to fit in: no

layer eight

age you hope to be married: er 30 ?
numbers and names of children: ookay this is too girly.
describe your dream wedding: er...girly
how do you want to die: happy.
where you want to go to college: been
what do you want to be when you grow up: peter pan :D
what country would you most like to visit: um...USA, New York

layer nine

number of drugs taken illegally: 0
number of people i could trust with my life: 4
number of cds that i own: 30 odd?
number of piercings: 0
number of tattoos: 0
number of times my name has appeared in the newspaper? 2
number of scars on my body: 2
number of things in my past that i regret: 1

"Used to be". When I read the title, the song title "This used to be my playground", by Madonna sprang to mind. So I went to my old playground, and suprisingly it had changed. It did used to be my playground, now its been changed and its now someone elses playground. Even the skater halfpipes have gone and are now a bowling green!

You are Neo, from "The Matrix." You
display a perfect fusion of heroism and
compassion.


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Just a simple picture, the packaging on my Rock Matrix cd.

Recently at the Imperial War Museum North at Salford Quays we saw this really good presentation. The whole exhibition turns into a slideshow with very dramatic sound. I was trying to capture a shot of this tank, and while the show was on the 9/11 image appeared right behind it. *Snap*. I find it very moving, topical, debateble, and such as it echos various themes of war and terrorism and the like. I think it speaks for its self about the theme "Wrong". But just in case, war is wrong, 9/11 was wrong, war in pursuit of vengance against 9/11 is also wrong (imho).

I have a few more images in my new war gallery.

Added a comment system, so you can now comment on pretty much every page :) Mainly for the images tho :D