Simon Houghton

12. 08.

A while back we go Sky HD, having never had Sky before it was strange to have so many channels all of a sudden. After weeks of trying to suss out which channels were good ( a few ) and which were pants ( lots ) I happened across “Current TV” one day. For a good few weeks my girlfriend and me watched loads of Current TV, which is a totally random selection of small little programs on a multitude subjects. I have to admit though I forgot about it and I stopped watching…

Recently I’ve been trying out Twitter.com and one of the people I’ve been following happens to work for Current TV. So I went and had a look at their website and so far I’m happily impressed, I’ve just watched a 40 min concert by Sigur Ros at the Musem of Modern Art in New York a band I’ve been wanting to hear more of.

So yes please take a look at their site and you can watch the TV channel at 193 on Sky and 155 on Virgin. You can also add your own videos to the Current TV website.

Tags: Current News, Current TV

11. 08.

Well it takes me ages to decide on a theme for a blog, I have to say I do enjoy doing this though, but the problem is that I find it hard to decide on one. Before I started to tinker with the template here at www.SimonHoughton.com I was running the Tranquility white theme by Geoff Stearns which is a really nice theme, here take a look…

This was a nice theme but I need to inspire myself to actually use this blog, I have a lot to teach and share with the world, I’m on a quest to learn everything so I might have the odd bit of advice for someone out there. Unfortunatly for you lot, I’ve been slack recently what with being a Dad… yada yada.. getting in the way… I’ve let this blog go forgotten. Not anymore!

So in order to inspire this great content to splurge out of me onto this here simonhoughton blog, I needed a fresh new theme.

When choosing a Wordpress theme most people just go to http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ and I will admit there are 100’s of worthy themes to be had there, but I’ve found a load of other sites which I think have a better selection.

The theme I have currently ( well currently while I write ) is the dreamworks redux 1.1 which I found at a great little site www.wpsnap.com here is a pic of it ( just incase I’ve gone and changed it )…

As soon as I saw this theme, I liked it, most dark theme’s are hard to read, but this theme has the right shading for easy reading. So for the time being I’m using this one, its great. I need to work out how to alter it so it show excerpts instead of the full posts on the homepage.

10. 08.

I used to be a Photographic Retoucher, I still do it occasionally every now and then, but most of the time my focus is currently on Web Design and Marketing. When I was a Retoucher I enjoyed listening to Audio Books while I retouched photographs, a liking I picked up from a freelance retouched we had in to work who was very fond of Audio books, her interest sparked my interest and I soon opened an account with Audible.com.

That was over 5 years ago and I’ve been using Audible and enjoying reading while I work ever since. I checked my iTunes audio book section the other day and was happy to see 141 items all of which I’ve bought from Audible.

Last year I finally decided to get an Audible.co.uk account as I was getting frustrated with books not being available to me from the US store. I’m currently reading, well quite a few books at the moment, but the main Audio Book I’m currently listening to is “The Long Tail” by Chris Anderson.

I’m going to try and do more posts on the subject of Audio books from now on as I need to use this blog for something! I’d got board of it for a while but I now want to make something of this!