did by graham

Training - Test copy for new look

2010-05-22T14:49:00.001-07:00

An essential part of any training for new bus drivers should be to warn them to get used to being photographed. I therefore like to think I am providing a service as part of this element in his future career...
Nice to see a breadvan in Barbie colours on the streets of Plymouth again (never thought I'd say that!)

Uncle Terry

One Hundred Days!
101 Taking shelter

Terry Partridge

Basking
Wanted - a puff

Omnibuses

Where did the bus go? Arriva goes viral: a real feel good story and clever marketing

A Transport of Delight

Perverse pricey profligate: The end of GBrowns big plan for London Underground

21 May 2010

12:17 FIRST CORNWALL The sun is shining(hooray!)so a trip on our Open Top Cornwall 300 via Penzance, Marazion, St Ives& Land's End is a must
13:15 FIRST PLYMOUTH: Have you saved money on your bus travel with our SALE on First 3 & 6 Month tickets yet? Save up to £55 here:

Test without frames

2010-05-21T12:31:00.001-07:00

This is Plymouth:

COMMUTERS face months of chaos in the east of Plymouth from the beginning of next month. The first phase of the East End transport scheme will see Gdynia Way closed for five months. The road, which is the main route into the city from Plympton and Plymstock, is being widened to three lanes as part of an 18-month, £19million improvement scheme. The worst of the disruption will be in the first phase, from June to October this year, with the closure of Gdynia Way. Early work has already started in the area, and on Monday, June 1, contractors Amey will begin demolishing and rebuilding Elliott Road bridge. Drivers who use Gdynia Way now will be diverted through either Embankment Road or the Cattedown industrial estate, along Finnigan Road/Shapters Road.

The £19m scheme, which has won funding from the Government's Community Infrastructure Fund and is supported by the Regional Development Agency's Regional Infrastructure Fund, will provide better transport infrastructure that will boost the area's local economy and support the future growth of our city. At the heart of the scheme will be a new public transport corridor along Embankment Road heading east, which will help improve the reliability of existing local bus services as well as the future Eastern Corridor high quality public transport service. The scheme is expected to nearly halve the amount of traffic using Embankment Road and significantly enhance the local environment and quality of life for residents living in this area. There will be new and re-surfaced roads and pavements, new off-road cycle paths to better link the city centre with the East End, Plympton and Plymstock and improved pedestrian links offering better access to local shops and amenities in the area. With a scheme of this size some disruption is inevitable, but we are doing everything that we can to manage the construction of the scheme as effectively as possible to keep this to a minimum and maintain the flow of public transport through the area. Plymouth City Council

PDF Files explaining the diversions better can be found here

Uncle Terry

One Hundred Days!

Terry Partridge

Omnibuses

Where did the bus go?

A Transport Illustrated

PTOTPA

Busworld Photography

Elsewhere in the News

21 May 2010

SMALLER SCRIPT TEST

2010-05-21T02:28:00.001-07:00

Gdynia TESTING TESTING TESTING

SMALLER PICTURE SIZES IN OLD TEMPLET SCRIPT?!

This is Plymouth:

PDF Files explaining the diversions better can be found here

I am currently in the final stages of putting together a new design for Plymothian Transit to give it a fresher look and also to tidy things up and reduce the clutter at the bottom of the page. You may will certainly notice the difference when it goes live sometime in the next day or so, hopefully you wont notice too many ’issues’ as I am ironing these out on a test site. WATCH THIS SPACE!

Uncle Terry

099 Sometimes the gardening just gets on top of me

Terry Partridge

Emulsified
Gas Spanner
Gas Works

Omnibuses

New Preston Bus: Life after Stagecoach?

A Transport Illustrated

Bristol Harbourside Rally

PTOTPA

A Line Line up

Busworld Photography

Elsewhere in the News

20 May 2010

15:19 FIRST PLYMOUTH: Half Marathon affecting services 2 / 6 / 12/ 48 / X80 / 93 on Sunday 30th May 2010 between 0800 - 1200

2010-05-20T16:50:00.001-07:00

Testing old posts to see if it all fits

New Plymouth Park & Ride fares from Tuesday 1st June 2010

The George

Adult single to Milehouse (all times) £1.40
Adult return Station/City Centre (after 0900) £2.20
Adult return to Milehouse(all times) £1.85
Adult return (before 0900) to Station/City Centre £2.90
Family* return (after 0900) £4.60
Family* return (before 0900) £6.00
10 return journeys multi journey ticket (all times) £20.00 NEW LOWER PRICE!
Special Argyle Home Match day adult return
to Milehouse/Windsor House** £1.00

Milehouse

Adult single to The George (all times) £1.40
Adult return to Station/City Centre (after 0900) £1.50
Adult return to Station/City Centre (before 0900) £1.90
Adult return to The George (all times) £1.85
Family* return (after 0900) £3.70
Family* return (before 0900) £4.60
10 return journeys multi journey ticket (all times) £15.00

Coypool

Adult return (after 0900) £1.75
Adult return (before 0900) £2.30
Family* return (after 0900) £3.70
Family* return (before 0900) £4.60
10 return journeys multi journey ticket £18.50
*Up to 5 people with no more than 2 adults
** Only available on Saturdays for Plymouth Argyle home match games. LINK

Uncle Terry

099 Sometimes the gardening just gets on top of me

Terry Partridge

Emulsified

Omnibuses

New Preston Bus: Life after Stagecoach?

A Transport Illustrated

Bristol Harbourside Rally

PTOTPA

A Line Line up

Busworld Photography

Elsewhere in the News

17 May 2010

2010-05-20T16:45:00.001-07:00

Superb old film clip

New Plymouth Park & Ride fares from Tuesday 1st June 2010

The George

Milehouse

Coypool

this is to see what happens with the old style posts which dont quite fit….

testing 820

2010-05-20T15:55:00.001-07:00

This is to test the 820 pic size fits

still not quite there yet….

Testing testing testing

2010-05-20T15:41:00.001-07:00

This is a simple text post to test the new template for Plymothian Transit. It is here as this is a test blog to practice on before going live on PT

header1

testing testing

2010-05-19T14:04:00.000-07:00

Testing

width of photo = 820

It all depends...

2009-09-27T15:51:00.001-07:00

I like the idea behind it, but I guess it will depend on how well it is controlled. I dont mean censorship or anything like that, but certainly dont want to see the sort of comments that fill up YouTube etc. I am sure Mashable and others will be keeping a close eye on how it all develops which is a great help to us all.

The really do need to get it working for Chrome though.

in reference to: Sidewiki: Google’s Newest Attempt to Make the Browser Social (view on Google Sidewiki)

the end

2009-09-18T01:56:00.000-07:00

I am trying to sort out all my different blogs etc as time is short and I cant keep up with all the stuff I want to do. This blog is therefore coming to an end and will probably be taken down at some time in the future.

For all my general internet stuff - see my new didbygraham posterous blog:

www.didbygraham.posterous.com

Recent site updates

2009-09-14T04:09:00.001-07:00

Latest pages updated on DBG Sites

Building the web

Web Design: Usability

Art and Design

Art and DesignArt and DesignAwesome Photos

Fun with Photos

Flickr

Music and sound: MP3

Image Generators

Logo Design

Photoshop

Photoshop: Resources

Photoshop: Brushes

The Social Web

Facebook 30 Days

Twitter: Geolocation

In the Office

Blogger - Widgets

PosterousPosterousFirefox Productivity

Google Wave

Google Reader

Google ChromeGoogle ChromeGoogle Docs

Typography

Reference

Blog Writing

ReferenceReferenceChurch Resources

DBG Sites last week

2009-08-31T03:13:00.001-07:00

Latest pages updated on DBG Sites

Building the web

CSS

Art and Design

Photographs

Photoshop

Tutorials: Layers

Tutorials: Selections

Tutorials: Collections

Tutorials: Typography

The Social Web

Facebook

Twitter Tips

In the Office

Google Docs

Google Reader

Hosting and storage

Reference

Google Earth: Games

Site Building

2009-08-19T02:48:00.001-07:00

Latest pages updated on DBG Sites

Building the web

JQuery - Beginners

CSS

Art and Design

Flickr

Photoshop

Resources: Styles

Resources: Filters

Tutorials: Collections

Tutorials: Web Building

The Social Web

Twitter for Beginners

Twitter Guides

FriendFeed

Facebook - Privacy

In the Office

FriendFeed

Feeds and RSS

Blogger

Tumblr

Firefox

Building Site

2009-08-17T01:47:00.001-07:00

Latest pages updated on DBG Sites

Building the web

PHP

Web Templates

Art and Design

Wallpaper

Awesome Photographs

You Tube

Photoshop

Tutorials: Working

Tutorials: Tool

The Social Web

Twitter

Twitter Directories

Blogginh

In the Office

Feeds and RSS

Hosting and Storage

Firefox: Productivity

Microsoft Word

DBG Sites

2009-07-16T00:46:00.001-07:00

Latest pages updated on DBG Sites

Art and Design

Video

Icons

Fonts

Coding Web sites

Photoshop Web Layouts

Google Reader

Google earth

Twitter Tools

Blogs to watch

Sites

2009-07-14T14:33:00.001-07:00

Latest pages updated on DBG Sites

Art and Design

Make your own...

Tumblr

Javascript

Twitter Tools

Google Reader

Gogle Search

Google Calendar

Site pages updated

2009-07-12T15:12:00.001-07:00

Latest pages updated on DBG Sites

Digg

Stumbleupon

Twitter

Google Tricks

Adobe

Firefox for Web Designers

Firefox Productivity

Firefox Social

Greasemonkey

Google

Adsense

Twitter Tools

Photoshop Tutorials: Selection tools

Awesome photographs

DBG Sites today

2009-07-10T11:04:00.001-07:00

Sites updated

2009-07-09T08:19:00.001-07:00

DBG Links has been updated again with new additions to the following pages:

Photographs

Mapping

CSS

Page Elements

Logo Design

Twitter Directories

Stumbleupon

Facebook

Social Web

Social Networking

A few of these pages now have three column layouts as Google suddenly seem to have introduced a few extra layouts in their extremely limited options. Hopefully a sign that things are going to be getting better with Google Sites.

Today I did this

2009-07-06T14:19:00.001-07:00

Plenty going on as usual but have not posted here for ages. Woops!

Today I have updated several pages on my DBG Links site:

Blogger

Art and Design

Twitter
Wordpress
Hosting and storage
Maps

DBG links is my Google Site where I add links and information I have found from the internet that provides something useful to me and therefore might be useful for anyone else too.
also…
http://www.plymothiantransit.com/2009/07/target-derriford.html

Just a test

2009-07-02T05:27:00.000-07:00

testing

Blogging Update

2009-05-17T01:39:00.000-07:00

I have been having a good look through my blogs and have tidied up a few bits. The current position is as follows:

Plymothian Transit

The main blog and the one which will always be continued! Everything and anything to do with transport in and around Plymouth along with city development and local history too.

Numberzz

The newest blog but one that I think will be around for a while as it is fun to put together. Each post is a simple picture illustrating a number drawn from a news story that has caught my eye which highlights life in Great Britain today.

Penguin Food

In some ways Numberzz has taken the place of what this blog used to do, but in a much more structured way. This blog remains a place where I stick anything funny that has caught my eye, or just about anything else really.

The Photoshopping Penguin

My second ever blog and one which has been tidied up the most over the past week or so. Now back in full swing after a break. Anything I find useful to do with Photoshop and any work that I do myself.

The did by graham interweb experience

You are reading it! Just a place where I keep everything together and stick in a few extra bits as I feel like it.

Penguin Quotes

My Tumblr Blog so it looks very different to the others. Just a simple news quote that caught my eye for whatever reason. Usually showing off someone's ignorance of just making me angry!

All other blogs that used to exist are now gone - no longer around.

2 weeks on Flickr

2009-05-16T01:22:00.001-07:00

The first two weeks of May have been a bit odd to say the least. I am currently off sick waiting on a hospital appointment and one of the few things I have been able to do (most of the time) is work at my computer. This has meant a lot of uploading to Flickr:

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
					1 26 items	2 260 Items
3 89 Items	4 340 Items	5 234 Items	6 91 Items	7 112 Items	8 19 Items	9
10 62 Items	11 25 Items	12 20 Items	13 53 Items	14	15 35 Items	16

A lot of these are ‘private’ as they are collected photos for my use only but its still the busiest month I have had on Flickr since I started.

As I write this up my all time views stand at 921458 views with an average of about 1500 a day over the past month.
571 of my photos have been marked as a favourite by other users which is nice!

Face Off - Where’s Wally

2009-05-04T02:16:00.000-07:00

Entry into Photoshop Face off .

Well I liked it! Just 3 votes - but there were a couple of brilliant entries which deserved most if the votes.

Face Off - on the edge

2009-05-03T14:03:00.001-07:00

Entry into Photoshop Face off .

Another winning entry - a major surprise as there was a much better entry as far as I was concerned.

Face off: Pool Table

2009-04-27T07:16:00.000-07:00

Entry into Photoshop Face off .
A rare win with a massive 10 votes. Really surprised at that. I am happy with the effect and think it does work, but amazed it had so many votes.

Faceoff: Maternal

2009-04-26T16:07:00.001-07:00

Faceoff entry
Nearly didn't bother with this one as I thought the idea was ok but I could not get the effect I wanted. Still it managed 4 votes so I cant complain.

Face off times 2

2009-04-20T13:23:00.001-07:00

Managed a couple of Photoshop Faceoff entries last week.
This one came second with 8 votes which was a pleasant surprise.

This Photoshop Faceoff Entry only got me 3 votes which is a shame as I thought it was quite good. A nice simple idea which I think I managed to carry off, although very little imagination required!

A week on Plymothian Transit

2009-04-14T13:33:00.001-07:00

6 April 2009	7th April 2009	8th April 2009
9th April 2009	11th April 2009	12th April 2009

Recent Flickr Uploads

2009-04-14T13:09:00.001-07:00

Just a few uploaded on the 8th.

Quite a few upload on the 10th April. Plenty uploaded over the past few days but these are collected photos and therefore down as Private!

Faceoff: Hitting the nail on the head

2009-04-14T10:36:00.000-07:00

Another Photoshop Face off entry, and another play on words although this time I think the image idea is a lot stringer than the last one!

A decent 7 votes with the winner getting 9.

Took a bit of a break with no more entries for 5 days, but I do now have a few more in hand…

Faceoff: Swim with A Dolf

2009-04-14T04:28:00.000-07:00

Photoshop Face off entry. It just shows that when you cant think of anything you can often get a few votes with just a play on words. Only got 4 votes - and to be fair didn't really deserve that many!

Faceoff: Looking for breakfast

2009-04-13T15:10:00.001-07:00

Catching up with my last few Photoshop Face off entries.
This is by far the best one - as it actually won with 8 votes. My first win since getting back into competition.

source eye image by

Joachim S Muller via flickr (cc)

Faceoff: Swimming

2009-04-08T13:06:00.001-07:00

Another Photoshop Faceoff entry. Probably my favourite one so far and I think the most successful.

It actually got 7 votes so was second place.

It combined an image from Mike Baird (cc) which can be seen here.
It took a while but I think it was worth it!

The winner got 9.

Just checked the overall standings (how vain am I?) and am currently 4th for the month and am now up to 28th in the all time score chart with 860 votes. Amazing! I really do have the bug again.

Flickr upload

2009-04-07T15:23:00.001-07:00

Lots more photos uploaded to Flickr over the last couple of days:

294 photos uploaded in April so far!

Face off: Snake

2009-04-07T09:25:00.001-07:00

Entry into Photoshop Faceoff

Received a respectable 6 votes. For the rather brilliant winner click here

Photoshop Faceoff: Stave

2009-04-06T13:41:00.001-07:00

My second new Photoshop faceoff entry has just ended - with an amazing 4 votes. The winner was a great image by Gravityx9 with 9 votes - and well deserved it was too.
I had a quick look at the standings for the month and am surprised to see that I am currently 6th for the month with 20 votes. My all time score of 847 votes puts me in 29th place - I was expecting to have fallen a lot below that as I have been inactive here for ages!

dbg: Photoshop Face Off

2009-04-05T16:30:00.001-07:00

After quite a long break I have started to enter the Photoshop Faceoff daily competitions again.

My first entry managed 5 votes so I am quite happy. The winner got 11 - and was brilliant.
The hardest part was getting Thomas to fit and not look too distorted. I actually added him in two parts. The carriage was added first and stretched slightly to fit, with the lower half of the carriage simple removed to keep the steam effect. Then Thomas was added with lots of messing about with the various layer tools to stretch and distort him to fit into place. Finally I then moved the chimney to line up with the smoke.

dbg: The last few days

2009-04-05T16:15:00.001-07:00

Plymothian Transit Posts
Its Back	East End Jackpot	Sunday Best GDR203N
What The Penguin Likes
Swiss Maps	Plus lots more links added to the DBG Links Site new quote added to Penguin Quotes
Numberzz
2100000	18	138
Flickr Uploads
2nd April 2009 [78]

dbg 1st April 2009

2009-04-01T15:41:00.001-07:00

Plymothian Transit

Numberzz

Quite a few photos processed and uploaded to Flickr today including:

Zak

Jane Trudi and Zak

Buses

Zaks Birthday Bowling December 2008(!)

PIT Night Out

dbg 31 March 2009

2009-03-31T15:23:00.001-07:00

Numberzz

What the Penguin Likes

Plymothian Transit

Lots more links added to the DBGLinks Site
The best news? Got my first cheque from Google Adsense today! Not bad - just three years!!! Still it more than pays for the Google Hosting of the dot com address so cant complain at all.

dbg 30 March 2009

2009-03-30T06:15:00.001-07:00

Blogging
Plymothian transit	Numberzz	What the Penguin Likes

Links: Flickr

2009-03-06T14:21:00.001-08:00

I am gradually sticking all my collected links into one place - and its here! These are my useful Flickr links. This page will be updated as I find more

Flickr Loaders	UploadrXL is a program to upload one or more images to Flickr and add them immediately to your Sets of Groups	FlickrFaves is a small utility for down-loading high-resolution versions of your Flickr favourites to your hard drive	Foldr Monitr is a free tool that watches a selected folder - any photos into the folder get uploaded for you	Flishr is a primer application to Download, Upload and Search photos from one central command

Flickr Search	Flickr Color Selectr - search by a single colour	Compfight - help find creative commons etc	Multicolr - search by selecting colours	Findr - drill down tag search

	Flickrstorm - find more than what you are looking for	Picturesandbox - search 6 different photo sites	Taggalaxy - space age search for Flickr	Flappr - Flash based search site

Flickr Tools	PicsViewr - turn your photos into presentations	Fotoviewr - stunning 3d galleries for your Flickr photos	Splashr - present your photos in many different ways	Spell with Flickr - the pictures spell your words

	FlickrRiver - view and search in style	Invitr - invite people to see your private collections	Slideoo create horizontal slideshows

Flickr Fun	Memry - memory game with Flickr	Captioner - does what it says!	Dumpr - do lots of fun things with your photos

Flickr Blogging	Flickr Blog - Flickr in their own words (and pictures)	Big Huge Labs blog	Flickr Scotland. The best photos of Scotland every day

Help me!	How to create a slideshow	The artists guide to making the most with Flickr
Last update:	6 March 2009

Plymothian Transit January 2009

2009-02-01T14:32:00.000-08:00

Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat	Sun
			1 A quiet start to the new year A Lady with a following	2 Bread van for sale	3 The TGPresence	4 Sunday Best UOD478
5 Non 999 ambulances	6 First drop 2	7 Plymgo - first impressions	8	9 First Fares and Feet	10 Future Event (Torquay)	11 Sunday Best WN DMS
12 Urban Tick	13 Cornwall The Good The Bad and the Indifferent	14	15 Bretonside gets the hump	16 Ugo by bus - not the train	17	18 Sunday Best HDV626E
19	20 Full steam for Saltash	21 A step back in time	22	23	24	25 Sunday Best Laira Diesel
26 To Hub or not?	27	28 Coming Home Another Atlantean returns	29	30	31 The first of many HST video

December 2008 on Plymothian Transit

2009-01-01T12:33:00.000-08:00

021208: A bus that knows where its going
031208: FGW Boss resignation
031208: The real 138
041208: Hoppa on parade
061208: New shelters for Derriford
081208: Sunday best SFJ101R
081208: Stranded school kids
091208: New stops
091208: Trains for Ivybridge

101208: Research Way
121208: Life after Trathens
131208: Plymgo
141208: Sunday Best 348EDV
151208: Skipping Off
161208: New improved service
171208: Confusion in Ham
191208: Gordon Sparks
201208: Citycoaching Onwards
221208: Oh dear
241208: Plym Valley Railway
261208: Christmas Best on Flickr
301208: I will be back!

Plymothian Transit Photo Blog November 2008

2008-12-06T12:07:00.001-08:00

36: Devon Removals R36OPC	37: FDC 40037	38: FDC TJI4838	39: Citybus T139EFJ
40: St Austell Brewery P740RAF	41: Hanson V841EDV	42: Evans S142NOD	43: Heywood P43ORL
44: FDC S344SUX	45: Citybus 145	46: FDC T846LLC	47: PM Clarke R447PDV
48: Citybus Y648NYD	49: Gregory R49UFJ	50: Westcountry Crane Hire Q350RWP	51: Citybus M51HOD
52: City Council X952DAC	53: Target L853WDS	54: FDC R454CCV	55: LA Moore V655EHT
56: Citybus 56	57: City Council Y557FDV	58: City Council X158CTA	59: FDC 40959
60: FDC 32760	61: Citybus 61	62: Andrew Stephens Y962GFJ	63: Citybus 63

November 2008 on Plymothian Transit

2008-12-03T13:37:00.001-08:00

011108: Citybus new advert
021108: Sunday Best WDR672M
031108: Citaro advert close up
041108: Thief strikes
041108: MP campaigns (needlessly!)
061108: Another rear advert
071108: Ongoing investment
081108: Plymouth's 'terminal 5' fiasco?
091108: Sunday Best AFJ755T
101108: December will be magic - Atlanteans back on the streets of Plymouth
111108: Odds and grumpy old sod
121108: conductress tours depot
131108: Congestion charge for Tamar Bridge?
141108: Christmas is coming
161108: RIP Stan Butler
171108: Eight new carriages
181108: Good News times 3
191108: Wright stuff
211108: More use the buses
221108: TTT v STK
231108: Sunday Best JNU138N
241108: Breton Cyder
261108: Catch it while you can
261108: Under the bridge
281108: Confusion over bus routes
301108: Sunday Best - Train Station

Plymothian Transit Photo Blog October 2008

2008-11-02T08:35:00.000-08:00

5: FDC Route 5	6: WAS WX06UPK	7: FDC Route 7	8: FDC W608PAF
9: Citybus K109SFJ	10: FDC N810VOD	11: FWN M411CCV	12: Citybus L112YOD
13: Citybus R113OFJ	14: FWN D514HUB	15: FDC W715RHT	16: FDC R416VPU
17: FDC C417HJN	18: City Council X218BOD	19: Snows X319BYD	20: Citybus R120OFJ
21: FDC P521PRL	22: V822DBJ	23: Williams Y223CCY	24: WN 824KDV
25: Citybus R125OFJ	26: FDC W826PFB	27: Citybus S127FTA	28: Citybus M128HOD
29: Parsons P129BTT	30: L30ALM	31: Citybus M131HOD	32: FDC 20532
33: FDC P433ORL	34: South Hams W534WRW	35: Glendinning R435CDV

All of these are seen on Plymothian Transit Photoblog

October 2008 on Plymothian Transit

2008-11-01T16:04:00.000-07:00

011008: Stars of the shows JFJ873
021008: Stars of the shows FTT704
031008: Stars of the shows L401VCV
041008: Stars of the shows 643HAA
051008: Sunday Best BDV267C
061008: Watch this space
061008: The new look for Plymothian Transit
071008: Plymothian Bridge Coombe Viaduct
081008: Emergency, kind of...
091008: Lunch time at Crownhill
101008: New advert bus for FDC
101008: Up the road a while back
111008: Missing the Target?
121008: Sunday Best AHT206J
131008: Stagecoach in South Brent
141008: Young teen driver
151008: Eighth ugliest building
161008: Mapping in the present day
181008: Half price steam
181008: Heading East
181008: Olympian Parade
191008: Sunday Best JJY633G
201008: A little bit of Plymouth in Keighley
211008: At last! a new timetable book
221008: Bridge over the Plym
231008: What a circus!
231008: Vandals
251008: Awarding
261008: Sunday Best FJY914E
261008: New 20mph zones
271008: Citybus are talking to you
281008: Failed
281008: North Cross site for bus station?
301008: Derriford upgrade
311008: Parking hike

What the penguin links to: Free Books

2008-11-01T15:27:00.000-07:00

First of several links pages for What The Penguin Likes blog

Penguin Food in October 2008

2008-10-31T16:14:00.001-07:00

Penguin food is back and angrier than ever...






	How things work Bankers Things that make you say mmmm

Blogs worth reading

2008-10-18T15:01:00.000-07:00

There are millions of blogs out there covering just about every subject you could ever think of, and many more besides. Here is a collection of the ones that I follow and think are worth reading. At the moment they are all on the one page but this will be split out in due course as this is a list that will grow and grow!

Design

Miscellaneous

Politics

Blogging

Mapping

Photoshop

Internet

Last updated:
18 October 2008

Photoshop Links

2008-10-18T13:18:00.001-07:00

Photoshop Tutorials

This is the first section of Photoshop Links I have come across. Further link pages will be added over time...

Last page update: 28 October 2008

Transport Bloggers

2008-10-17T16:00:00.000-07:00

There are a growing number of blogs related to transport out there these days...

Buses

Many more to follow...

Flickr Upload

2008-10-09T14:40:00.001-07:00

Managed a decent upload of photos to Flickr account tonight including my lunchtime visit to Crownhill Village and a few new cat photos:

The big revamp: Photoshopping Penguin

2008-10-06T16:28:00.000-07:00

I have been rolling out the new blog template design to all my current blogs this past few days. This blog you are reading right now has changed already. In this case it was a a brand new blog under the same name as before with all the old content deleted and new posts put up instead.

Looking at the others we start with The Photoshopping Penguin.

This has been a long running occasional blog, mostly for my own benefit as a place to put all the links etc I find and examples of my own work. The new design makes it easier to show off with larger pictures.

I am trying to post more regularly across this and The Penguin Likes which will be described later.

All the current 2008 post have now been indexed on these dbg interweb experience pages.

Links Page

2008-10-05T09:05:00.001-07:00

This is acting as the links page for all my blogs and Internet activity. It will be updated regularly. There are plenty more links still to be added!

The Plymothian Transit Links...

My Blogs etc...

Other blogs worth a visit...

Bus Companies etc

Online Photo albums...

September 2008 on Plymothian Transit

2008-10-01T15:33:00.000-07:00

010908: Fire rescue 2001

020908: Devon Fire Brigade in 2001
030908: Final photos from 2001
040908: South Western Ambulance
050908: Blast from the past Western National FLF
070908: Cops on camera
080908: A very busy weekend
100908: Oh dear
100908: Ugo fighting?
140908: Kingsbridge running day
140908: Not so second rate anymore
150908: Spot the difference - Registration confusion
160908: Shopping bonus is just the ticket
160908: Sorted!
170908: China Garden
180908: Another pink Solo
190908: All day returns on Citybus
190908: Plymothian Bridges Longbridge Road
200908: Slightly sinister purse
210908: Hot weekend
230908: Stars of the shows 270KTA
240908: Stars of the shows 759MDV
250908: Stars of the shows 672COD
260908: Stars of the shows KJD413P
260908: Its a wrap
270908: Stars of the shows FDV793V
280908: Sunday Best MUO318F
290908: Incoming FDC
300908: Stars of the shows OD7497

What the penguin liked in September 2008

2008-09-30T14:10:00.000-07:00

How fast can you go?

12 September 2008

Geeks and God

16 September 2008

The show is aimed at church ministries, but the information covered is often applicable to any website.

Go Animate!

28 September 2008

GoAnimate can do loads of stuff! While we do our best to make it easy to use, it is always hard to pack so many features onto a computer screen and make it easy for say a chiwawa with its legs attached behind its back to use

Imagery

30 September 2008

September 2008 on The Photoshopping Penguin

2008-09-28T16:16:00.000-07:00

160908: Videos for Photoshop You suck at Photoshop
160908: Photoshop Lady
180908: Videos for Photoshop Photoshop Killer Tips
200908: Videos for Photoshop Pixel Perfect
220908: Videos for Photoshop Layers TV
240908: Videos for Photoshop Photoshop TV

260908: Videos for Photoshop Create Suite Video Podcast
270908: Water Brushes
290908: Raindrops on my photos

August 2008 on Plymothian Transit.com

2008-08-31T15:46:00.000-07:00

010808: Blast from the past NTC573R

030808: Dock Railway
030808: HST Departing Now
040808: Devon General on Show
050808: Blast from the past LTA831
060808: Just as well we are anoraks A real moan!
070808: Devon Samson
090808: Now thats better - better timetable display boards.
110808: Another demonstrator
120808: Plymouth helps out (Devon Fire Brigade)
130808: X38 now and then
140808: Bendy bus in Plymouth
150808: A good show The 2001 bus rally
160808: Devon General sisters
180808: The Plymothian Transit Photo Blog Launch of a new blog
190808: Blast from the past VUH381J
200808: Citycoach is not dead The new look for Citycoach
210808: Another new livery - this time for Tally Ho
220808: Plymouth International

230808: Gasp Ugo promotion
250808: Oh Eights: Plymouth City Council
260808: Oh Eights: May Gurney
260808: Woops!
270808: Oh Eights Oh Wow!
280808: First moves in mysterious ways!
280808: Oh Eights: National Blood
290808: Oh Eights Viridor
300808: Oh Eights: The buses (and Taxibuses)

What the penguin liked in August 2008

2008-08-28T14:03:00.000-07:00

Not much really:

28 August 2008

Free Music!

Artist server. com

August 2008 on The Photoshopping Penguin

2008-08-27T16:09:00.000-07:00

180808: Smashing Stuff Two great sets of tutorial links from Smashing Magazine:
280808: Fireworks A great collection of Fireworks articles, tutorials and other useful resources are all linked to from one packed page

July 2008 on Plymothian Transit

2008-07-31T15:49:00.000-07:00

010708: Life after Plymouth STK126T
020708: Those were the days Another superb shot from aecregent - as soon as I saw it I knew it had to be shared tonight!
030708: Citybus Changes and Fares going up
050708: Brand New
060708: Brand New - The Enviros are here
080708: Target Travel P150LMA
080708: Enviros are in service
080708: Life after Plymouth M221EAF
090708: Sadly going It seems the Plymouth skyline is seeing more changes this year than it has for a long time. After the sad loss of the Millbay Silo earlier this year it seems we are about to loose another skyline landmark
090708: A very special Dart L401VCV
100708: Its often the little things...
110708: Tidied up L113YOD
130708: Plymothian Bridges: Devonport Road
140708: Plymothian Bridges: Havelock Terrace
160708: Explorer Tickets Confusion
170708: 118/ 86 confusion
200708: Crossing the river Saturday saw me taking a long walk over Tamar bridge with Zak, which did at least give me the chance of a few new photos a few of which I post below - you can never have too many posts on this fantastic bridge.
210708: Tamar Bridge Truck
230708: Incoming
230708: Emergency Services
240708: New Solo X657WYG
250708: Trying to get out of Derriford
270708: It was a very hot day The Plymouth Bus Rally does seem to be blessed with good weather most years but today's was exceptional. If anything it was too bright and sunny for photography - but that was a minor issue really. Below is just a few photos taken during the day - of the buses that Zak and myself actually had rides in
280708: Citybus on show
290708: FDC on show
300708: Enviro Mental Its always nice to see brand new buses at the rally and this year saw several 08 registered buses on display, most of them being Alexander Dennis Enviros

July 2008 on The Photoshopping Penguin

2008-07-22T16:07:00.000-07:00

Its been a month or two but here we go again:

120708: Masking Tutorials
230708: Video Tutorials

The best thing about Photoshop video-tutorials is that they allow you to observe professionals just as if you were standing nearby and looking over their shoulders. You can see step-by-step how buttons, collages or even paintings are created. Instead of reading through books describing what needs to be selected, activated and clicked, you can simply imitate mouse clicks knowing exactly that you are actually doing the right thing.

What the Penguin liked in July 2008

2008-07-13T14:01:00.000-07:00

4th July 2008

The Game

12 July 2008

One Word

Simple

13 July 2008

Humyo

30GB free online storage. nuff said.

June 2008 on Plymothian Transit

2008-06-30T13:50:00.000-07:00

010608: Gardner European
020608: Arriva Cross Country
030608: Plymothian Bridges Saltash Road
040608: Quickie
060608: Unreal Time I normally catch the same buses at roughly the same time each day on nice frequent bus routes so don't often need to use the new RTP Info system.
070608: The Engineer
080608: War is over? The official notice that SCD are cancelling their seemingly popular X45 service next month. It does seem to have caught people by surprise (ok well it surprised me at least) as the service has always seemed to be popular offering a quicker run to Paignton than the competing X80 from First.
090608: Incoming FDC
100608: Traffic lights from Hell
110608: Royal Blue Run
110608: Flying Solo Optare demonstrating in Plymouth
120608: Incoming Citybus The Enviros are coming...
120608: These things happen The alarm was still sounding as we continued on our way. As we pulled out from the Tamar Science Park bus stop I noticed that there was a lot of 'smoke' coming out of the back.
130608: Citybus on Flickr
140608: Optare Demo
140608: Demo one and Demo two
150608: Fuel Crisis
160608: Citybus 50
170608: Odds and ends
180608: Tavy Links Evolution
190608: Ferrybus to TamarLink
200608: Its a wrap Another advert
220608: Another demo
220608: Park and Ride fare hike
220608: Pipe dream
230608: Plymouth Crossley
240608: Plymouth Citybus Coach livery
250608: Viridor Waste Contract
260608: South Devon Conundrum Yesterday I spent a couple of hours taking photos at Marsh Mills so of course I was able to observe a number of X80's and X45s coming in.
270608: Plymouth City Council Waste Trucks
280608: Plymothian Transit Blog Map
300608: Coming soon to a stop near you Another demo for Citybus

MAY 2008 JULY 2008

What the penguin liked in June 2008

2008-06-08T13:55:00.000-07:00

A quiet month:

8th June 2008

Water Effect

Not sure why you would want this - buts its cool!

May 2008 on Plymothian Transit

2008-05-31T13:22:00.000-07:00

010508: Plymothian Bridges Devonport Tunnel
010508: First Performance
030508: New bridge
040508: Happy Birthday Saltash Station
050508: M273HOD
060508: Western National on Flickr
070508: The Duke
090508: Reduced prices
090508: Park and Ride Extra
100508: Incoming Citybus I am very grateful to Brian George for supplying these first shots of the new Enviro 200 buses which will soon be placed into service with Plymouth Citybus.
110508: Transat
120508: Incoming Inside
130508: Fuel terminal railway
140508: Shakey Bridge
150508: Trathens on Flickr
170508: Citybus on parade
180508: Lord Mayors Day Parade
190508: Citybus 132 Another advert
200508: Citybus on Flickr These days Plymouth Citybus is well known for its very smart appearance. The picture below shows that has not always been the case!
210508: Last train from Cattedown I'm one of the last two remaining staff at the bitumen plant..there was only 4 of us!! Our last train was yesterday (Friday 16/5/08) which came in at 6am to take the empties from our last delivery. Indeed it is a very sad day and I've enjoyed every minute of the last 10 years I've spent there.
220508: Odds and ends

230508: Target Travel second-hand bus
250508: Up the road Goings on in Exeter
260508: Plymothian Bridges: Garfield Terrace
280508: South Western Ambulance
290508: May Gurney
290508: Plymothian Bridges Extra
300508: Another Advert S374SUX

APRIL 2008 JUNE 2008

What the penguin liked in May 2008

2008-05-26T13:52:00.000-07:00

18 May 2008

Screenshots

I noticed a service called scrnshots.com a while back but have only just created an account to have a go. It is basically a Flickr for screenshots.

19 May 2008

Screen Shots

At last found a decent way of getting screenshots. Installed the Firefox plug in Fireshot. It adds a small icon to your tool bar just click and select an option. Takes the visible section or the whole page.

25 May 2008

Blogger Tutorials

Here is a complete list of all the tutorials posted on Blogger Buster, organized by category. So please, dive in and read the tutorials which are most useful to you!

26 May 2008

Watch TV on Line

Several web sites reviewed

May 2008 on the Photoshopping Penguin

2008-05-24T16:04:00.000-07:00

010508: Face Off Shuttle cock
010508: Face Off Flower Powered
030508: Face Off
040508: Diabetes Presentation
070508: Crap Photo
110508: Face Off
250508: Graphic Identity Brushes
250508: Good Tutorials

April 2008 on Plymothian Transit

2008-04-30T13:00:00.000-07:00

010408: Citybus Marketing Coup (April Fool!)
010408: The other half After discovering that Taxifast were operating yellow and red taxis on the Northern Connect service I decided to have a go this morning.
010408: Life after Plymouth
020408: Three today Plymothian Transit is three today!
020408: Poor argument
030408: Looking Good!
030408: RTP Update
040408: Taxibus
050408: Take a break in 1982
060408: Ugo is Go! Today is U-day for First Devon and Cornwall as the new Ugobus network starts in Plymouth.
070408: What waste?
080408: Taxi - Bus?
090408: Enviros in favour
100408: Plymothian Bridges Paradise Road
110408: Citybus on Flickr
120408: Plymouth Discovery Tours
130408: Milehouse Had a birthday treat today when my son Zak and I joined a few others on a guided tour of the Milehouse bus depot of Plymouth Citybus thanks to Brian George
140408: Trams
150408: Taxibus progress
160408: Campaigner
170408: MCO658
190408: Discovery Tours launch
200408: Gunnislake on Flickr
220408: Incoming
230408: Never mind the Tardis
240408: Death of a silo
260408: Charity bus pull
260408: Citybus Ambulance Base
270408: Plymothian Bridges Paradise Road
280408: Western National Atlantean Jeff Lloyd posted this photo of VUH378J from his collection (photographer unknown)so I just had to share it here
300408: Steam train in Plymouth
300408: Landtrain

MARCH 2008 MAY 2008

April 2008 on The Photoshopping Penguin

2008-04-26T15:58:00.000-07:00

I had decided to close down the old Photoshopping Penguin blog back at the end of last year, but have chnaged my mind as its still useful to me at least!

260408: Photoshop Disasters Excellent blog I have come across for the first time today

And that was it for April!

What the penguin liked in April 2008

2008-04-26T13:29:00.000-07:00

3rd April 2008

Blogger Buster: Favicons Made Easy!

At last a nice and simple description of how to get a nice little favcon to appear on your blog. If you are using Firefox then you will hopefully see my penguin on page address

12 April 2008

Garfield minus Garfield -

Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?

20 April 2008

Create fake antique photos with this foreign language web site!

26 April 2008

Photoshop Disasters Blog: It has to be said that there are plenty of 'misses' but there are some gems as well

March 2008 on Plymothian Transit

2008-03-31T12:57:00.000-07:00

01 03 08: Sevens part 1 VU07NKX South Hams DC
02 03 08: Sevens part 2 Western Power and EDF
02 03 08: Life after Plymouth Former Plymouth Renault/Dodge S56 Reeve-Burgess D141 LTA is seen with Gemini Travel, Swansea on the 18th of June 2000
03 03 08: Sevens part 3 Wales and West
03 03 08: The end for the swirls? A new look for Citycoach?
04 03 08: Sevens part 4 British Telecom
05 03 08: Good News! I can advise you that plans are under way to improve the public transport facilities at Derriford Hospital and part of this work will include replacing the existing bus shelters and poles and flags
05 03 08: Elsewhere
06 03 08: Back to basics - The new look for Citycoach
07 03 08: Western National on Flickr VOD618S
09 03 08: Plymothian Bridges Fitzroy Road
09 03 08: New bus service - why so secret? The trouble is you would have a real job knowing about the services. There is nothing online that I can find to give timetables or anything. Target Travel have nothing on their web site at all. Neither do Taxifast
10 03 08: New services
11 03 08: This is Plymouth
11 03 08: In the pink Lots of pink buses in Plymouth!
12 03 08: Enviro 300 demonstration
13 03 08: First saving children
14 03 08: Plymothian Bridges: Waterloo Street
15 03 08: Western National on Flickr
17 03 08: Ferry big problem A Torpoint school has defended its decision to ditch the town's ferry from its logo - claiming that the vessel kept breaking down
19 03 08: Enviro 300
21 03 08: Enviro Vision
22 03 08: Western National on Flickr
23 03 08: Fiction! A curious submission lands on the desks of the panjandrums at the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Someone has nominated the timetable for Bristol’s First bus service.
24 03 08: Citybus photoblog is reborn

25 03 08: Lost Property
25 03 08: 30 mile limit
26 03 08: Local lines
28 03 08: Life after Plymouth
29 03 08: An important week
30 03 08: More from Wales
31 03 08: Northern Connect

What the Penguin likes in March 2008

2008-03-30T13:03:00.000-07:00

A brand new blog in the dbg interweb experience. I search the web each day and come across new web sites and services that I think look interesting and might be of use to me in the future. If I think they are useful, or at the very least worth a look, then I blog them here. In the month of March 2008 I liked the following:

9th March

Firefox Preloader

Preloader pre-loads various parts of your Firefox browser into the memory so that when you want it to start, it is able to open much faster than normal.

11th March

HTM2PDF

If you want to keep a record of a web page as it is now then its a good idea to convert the page to PDF

15th March

Dreamweaver Tutorials

We start of with an excellent beginners tutorial for Dreamweaver 8. If you follow it correctly you build up four different web sites on your computer.

26 March

Brushes!

Photoshop Brushes has come out with a new look. We're going for a cleaner look to minimize the usless content and give you direct access to the Photoshop Brushes

28 March

2D Driving on Google Maps

Well you can now play a very simple game that uses Google Maps satellite views and steer your vehicle along the main roads.

30 March

BTemplates

BTemplates is a gallery that is pretended to gather all the templates created for Blogger in a single site, classifying them according to thematic or design features.

February 2008 on Plymothian Transit

2008-02-29T11:04:00.000-08:00

01 02 08: Your carriage awaits - or rather it doesn't!
It has emerged that just 52 of the 1,300 extra carriages announced by Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly will go to the embattled train operator First Great Western, which runs services between the city and London
02 02 08: I almost forgot Bendy buses on the X38

03 02 08: The low point Minibuses on the X38
04 02 08: Leyland Lynx E201BOD on Royal Parade
05 02 08: Reminder of times gone by
06 02 08: Northern Connect
We have just received details on the new Northern Connect service that is due to start in March. I think it starts the second Monday in March but I cant find it written down anywhere!
07 02 08: Plymothian Transit goes dot com!
08 02 08: Incoming Plymouth Citybus
It was mentioned on this blog a while ago that Citybus were expecting some Enviros this year rather than Citaros. It has just been confirmed that they will be Enviro 200's with 35 full leather seats and other mod cons
09 02 08: Rest in peace. My Dad - at peace at last
14 02 08: Incoming First D&C T801RHW arrives
16 02 08: First surprise
One of Cornwall's most successful public transport operators over the past two decades is set to change hands. First Devon and Cornwall Ltd, part of First Group plc, the UK's largest bus and rail operator, has announced its intention to acquire Truronian Ltd
17 02 08: World of leather
A short while ago it was reported that the forthcoming new Enviro 200's for Plymouth Citybus would feature leather seats among other luxuries and be fitted out to a high standard. It is all part of trying to get more passengers enticed back onto the buses
18 02 08: Plymouth Countrybus VOD110K
19 02 08: Got the Buzka
20 02 08: Leyland National UCO46L
21 02 08: Local Lines
Refurbished FGW Class 150 No 150261 in "Local lines" livery made it's debut into Cornwall today making 2 return trips from Plymouth to Penzance
21 02 08: Partnership
23 02 08: To catch a bus (1)
With my frequent visits to Derriford Hospital over the past few months, I have been spending a lot of time in the hospital bus stop shelter sat waiting for a bus home
24 02 08: To catch a bus (2)
Its no wonder that passengers and drivers often have a job working out which bus stops where.
25 02 08: To catch a bus (3)
It is clear from the comments attracted by my last couple of posts that the Derriford hospital bus stop is very much a special case.
26 02 08: Ugobus? The start of something different by FDC
27 02 08: Anger
28 02 08: Western National on Flickr FTT704
29 02 08: First is excited!
First is excited to announce changes to its bus network which will lead to additional services for customers in the city. The new network will come into force on Sunday 6th April 2008.

January 2008 Index

March 2008 Index

January 2008 on Plymothian Transit

2008-01-31T10:38:00.000-08:00

01 01 08: 2008 - what to expect?
02 01 08: Free Travel Map
03 01 08: Leyland National
A couple of photos posted on the South West Buses Google Group by Mark Webber of brand new Leyland Nationals with Plymouth City Transport.

04 01 08: Leyland National Part 2

05 01 08: After the National - the Leyland Lynx
06 01 08: Blast from the past - A665KUM
12 01 08: Smile!
Bus company First Devon and Cornwall was holding a competition today where people can win a year's free travel and see their photograph appear on the sides of Plymouth buses
13 01 08: Plymothian Bridges - De La Hay Avenue
14 01 08: Another landmark lost Millbay Silo
19 01 08: Relief Road?
20 01 08: Plymothian Bridges - Molesworth Road
21 01 08: Plymothian Bridges - Molesworth Road
21 01 08: Forty Thousand - 40,000 visitors and counting...
22 01 08: Unfair Fares?
Rail passengers in the Westcountry are paying the highest train fares in Europe. According to a new report, train users in the region, as well as in the rest of the country, pay up to 14 times more than their counterparts on the continent.
24 01 08: Blast from the past - EYE343V
26 01 08: Idiots Guide

An idiot’s guide explaining how to get on and off a bus has been produced for people who have a phobia of public transport
28 01 08: Green Travel Pass
31 01 08: Going to Exeter
These Willowbrook coaches were the norm for a few years in dedicated liveries. I always thought they were ugly, especially compared to the Plaxton coaches that were being delivered at the same time

February 2008 Index

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Training - Test copy for new look

Uncle Terry

Terry Partridge

Omnibuses

A Transport of Delight

21 May 2010

Test without frames

Uncle Terry

Terry Partridge

Omnibuses

A Transport Illustrated

PTOTPA

Busworld Photography

Elsewhere in the News

21 May 2010

SMALLER SCRIPT TEST

Uncle Terry

Terry Partridge

Omnibuses

A Transport Illustrated

PTOTPA

Busworld Photography

Elsewhere in the News

20 May 2010

Uncle Terry

Terry Partridge

Omnibuses

A Transport Illustrated

PTOTPA

Busworld Photography

Elsewhere in the News

17 May 2010

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Testing testing testing

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