Why not something that covers all bases?

Architects can design a car showroom.

Landscape architects can design the setting.

Vehicle designers can design the products on display.

Furniture designers can design the interior furnishings.

...and so on.

Brilliant renders. Book title upside down, though!

"The Fairy Bum Tree Song" - being played on our local radio. Have not found a download for it yet. Damned funny, but probably many would find it offensive ...

Beautiful renders.

Just one small suggestion - the timber cladding has an obvious pattern repeating across the wall and deck. A regular problem when applying image maps to unbroken areas. See if you can find an image that covers a larger area or which does not tile so obviously.

@remus said:

@marian said:

Hey what happened to the pic i posted with WHY your cat is trying to kill you?

I think the persons whos site you linked it from replaced it with some porn (which is why i deleted it.) I tried to PM you but it it didnt want to do it for some reason. Sorry for any confusion.

The porn WAS funny, though ..

Looking good for a brick and glass render

You have fallen foul of the problem with jointed materials not matching the surface dimension and not wrapping correctly at corners. You are not alone in this. I have seen Holiwood movies that have this problem too.

You need to make sure that the walls are an exact multiple of the brick dimensions (adjusted for the joint width.)

@dave r said:

What about the bread?

Give me a dollar for every time someone mentions that ....

The Large Hadron Collider has been fixed and is about to be restarted:

BBC News - Beam circles 'Big Bang' machine

Engineers have sent proton particles all the way round the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) machine for the first time in more than a year.

(news.bbc.co.uk)

As much use as a chocolate fire guard = useless

"Sithi" = I'll see you later. Yorkshire
"nohbut" = nothing but.

Road runners

...and screen savers.

@olishea said:

haha small world

I saw your website...the mamas and papas warehouse.....is that at the side of the railway line? If so I used to go past it everyday on the way to that god forsaken school! I used to watch it being built!

Yep - we have phases 3 and 4 in for Planning right now. Desperately need that job to go ahead, work is very tight right now.

@olishea said:

Ahh John Warburton.....you come from Wakefield! I went to school there; QEGS, you may know it?

Indeed I do know it, though I'm not originally from Wakefield and certainly did not attend those hallowed halls

My first proper job as an architect was just across the road, though, at David Lyons Associates (as they were then known) on St John's North.

A mate of mine has been testing Windows 7 for some time.

His view is that Windows 7 is in reality nothing more than Vista SP 3 and that Microsoft are taking the p*** by charging for it as a new OS.

He also says that the consensus amongst many testers is that while initial install produces a much better performance, after configuring the options and adding anti-virus and other essential features, and applications, the difference in performance with Vista is actually quite negligible.

An Easter procession in deep snow.

My scroll wheels have always lasted as long as the mouse itself.

It has been common knowledge here in the UK that the self-serving, money-grabbing Blairs have been lined-up for the EU Presidency for some time. His choice is between keeping his current money-making schemes or to take the power and prestige and the trappings that go with it as the EU President.

Disgusting that we have no say at all.

Many thanks for your assistance Andrew. I'm almost back up and operational now.

Restored all my data yesterday afternoon (4 hours!)

Just need to recover my commercial Sketchup plugins from the backup and then re-apply all my custom settings to my CAD software (and I had it just right too!)

Tell your wife I was asking myself the same question ...

Well, I'm making progress.

Restoring the original configuration was painless. And seemed to take only a few minutes. The hard part was finding out how to do it! Silly me for thinking that I should use the "Recovery Disc" that came with the PC. No, I needed the "Application & Support-Disc". The "Recovery Disc" is used to either repair the existing installation or to replace it with a completely new installation. Nice one Medion. No documentation with the PC or on their web site of course. A README.TXT on the recovery partition would have been nice too.

Anyway, after several hours installing them one at a time, I managed to get all of the updates installed. One at a time because I have previously fallen foul of a known issue with Vista becoming unusable when trying to install multiple updates. Only one gave me an issue - the .NET 3.5 framework installation failed first time, but succeeded on the second attempt. Vista SP 2 was the last to go on - I did not even get offered that until all the other updates were installed.

SU 7.1 Pro was the first app that I installed. It went on straight away, no problems.

A long weekend now getting all my other apps on and validated, then several hours re-installing the data. Don't you just hate computers?