Last night I added a newly updated photography section to the site. Previously, each photo and each album had to be created manually, and was a time consuming task. Due to me also uploading photos I take to my Flickr account, dealing with the same photos twice was repetative and to an extent a waste.

So, the new section now allows photos I upload to Flickr show on my website, in their own albums, with comments and camera settings data automatically. As well as being more efficient for me to manage my photos online, it will also make my photography section more up to date, as I reguarly use Flickr for my photography, and will add additional features to the site, such as photo commenting.

Photography Section: www.lloydengland.com/photography or click the Photography link in the navigation bar at the top of every page.

I’m glad to say I’ve been accepted as an intern at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington, Surrey and start from mid-August. NPL is the UK’s national standards laboratory who carry out fundamental research and develop measurement technologies, vital to improving quality of life, trade competitiveness, and protecting the environment.

My position within the company will be the Technical Coordinator for Online Media and Communities. I will be using web and online media technologies as part of the Knowledge Transfer Delivery Team as well as providing technical support to the KT Delivery Team, helping to communicate scientific knowledge using the web and collaborative technologies.

A selection of photos of the Red Arrows from the 2007 Yeovilton Air Show.

For more photos from the day, you can view the Flickr Set for the Air Show here.

After a couple months of designing, coding, and putting the finishing touches too, the website for Rung Heating I’ve been making is finally complete, and more importantly it’s launched!

Based in Sherborne, Dorest; Rung Heating Supplies Ltd are specialist distributors to the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning industries across the country.

The website features company information, client listings, contact information, and the company’s complete products and services, all coded with fully valid XHTML and CSS through Adobe Dreamweaver, a downloadable company breakdown PDF document and photos and images made through Adobe Photoshop.

View site: www.rungheating.co.uk

An interesting meme which has been travelling the blogosphere lately is people’s ‘media consumption diets’. I found this on Ian Forrester’s blog where he had written his media ‘diet’, however it was originally started by Jeremiah Owyang. It’s a detailed list and explanation of how individuals recieve and digest thier news and information, and generally get entertained.

Web: I get alot of news and information from the web, from subscribing to RSS Feeds, to browsing websites in general. For all main news, current affairs and some technology and entertainment news my most popular resource would have to be the BBC News website, and it’s Have Your Say section. I also find myself often on the ABC News site just to try and get perhaps a different perspective on certain stories.

Other sites I reguarly browse to for news is Digital Spy for media news, E! Online for entertainment news, and Neowin for technology news.

I subscribe to just over 30 feeds, which include friend’s blogs, technology and media news feeds, and various people who work within the industry.

I have a Dell Inspiron laptop which I use most of the time while at home, and all of the time when I’m up at university, as well as a old Time computer at home I use on the odd occasion. At home we have AOL Platinum 8MB Broadband, and in our flat at Kingston while at university, we have Virgin Media 4MB Cable Broadband.

Communication: Out of the four main methods I reguarly use to contact people, the first would have to be my mobile phone. I have a Sony Ericsson W810i, which is a great phone which I use to text and call people on Pay as you Go from Orange. I also have a bluetooth headset with it to use in the car, even though I rarely use it, and I’m pretty much sure it’s out of battery anyways.

Secondly, there’s email. I have many accounts, three of which I reguarly use; Hotmail - for circulars, subscription emails etc.; Kingston University Email - for all things university related; and my lloydengland.com Email for everything else.

Then there’s Windows Live Messenger which I pretty much use daily, to communicate with friends and family.

Finally there’s Facebook, which since last Autumn has become a main focus for me to keep up to date with friends from the past and now!

There’s also Skype I use on the odd occasion to talk to friends and family, and to use while playing online games.

Music: I have a large collection of albums of all genres on my home computer and laptop which I listen to while at home. I rarely listen to the radio anymore and have an MP3 CD which I listen to in the car with 130+ tracks on. I also own an iRiver H140 MP3 player with alot of music on, even though I rarely use it these days, as I only listen to music while at my laptop or in my car.

Television: I reguarly watch TV at home, as well as downloading American and British TV shows online. I tend to watch Drama’s such as; Lost, 24, Studio 60, West Wing, Greys Anatomy; Comedies such as; Scrubs and Only Fools & Horses; and Sci Fi’s such as; Doctor Who, Stargate SG1 & Atlantis, Enterprise and Eureka.

At home we have Freeview (Digital TV), and reguarly watch digital channels, even though the main 4 are most watched.

Pictures: I have two cameras, not including mobile phones. A Sony P12, 5 Megapixel, point and shoot camera which until recently was my main and only camera. I now also have a Canon D400 (Digital Rebel XTi) SLR camera which will now become my main camera which I’ll take with me to capture places, people and events.

Over the past few years I have gathered a large collection of digital images, using over 16GB of space on my laptop, with partial backups on both my home computer and an external hard drive. I use Windows Explorer and Adobe Lightroom to organise my ever growing collection.

I store and save virtually all photos I take so I have a library of past photos. I upload selected photos online, such as Events to my gallery on my blog, as well as uploading the best photos I take to Flickr.

Movies: I enjoy watching movies, both at home on DVD and at the cinema. My tastes in film are similar to that of TV, where I find myself watching and enjoying Dramas, Action, Thrillers and Comedies.

Gaming: I have a Playstation 2, however have not used it much the past year or so, as well as playing several PC games, such as Sim City 4, Flight Simulator X and Supreme Commander.

Newspapers & Magazines: I rarely buy magazines, even though since getting my SLR camera I suppose I may start buying the odd photography magazine if it takes my interest! I also rarely actually buy newspapers, however reguarly read the headlines, and if I do happen to find myself reading one at home it would either probably be the local paper, The Daily Mail or The Guardian.

I’ve finally got my hands on a digital SLR camera, and thus joined the Digital SLR club! Where’s my membership card?… After ordering it online last Saturday, it finally arrived six days later on Friday!

So, what camera you may ask? Well… its the Canon EOS 400D… or… it was mean’t to be… the actual camera which arrived was infact the Canon Digital Rebel XTi… which for all those not in the know, is actually the 400D… just the American Version… everything is actually identical with both cameras other than the name… oh and the charger… I have a crazy funky charger which looks just weird as it’s American and folds in and out… luckily a UK adaptor was also sent so I can use it!

As you can see in the second photo on the right! The first one of which is of my new camera with it’s 70-300mm lens on!

Either way I’m happy! Along with the camera and it’s standard 18-55mm lens, I also got a Sigma 70-300mm lens, and a 4GB CF Memory card to store all my lovely to be photos!

Hopefully more better photos will come as a result! Hopefully!