BinaryJam

Now, lucky me, I have a license for Photoshop 6.  But being on W2k3server x64 I can’t use it anymore.  So rather than go to the expense of Photoshop for a couple of image edits a month, if that, I had been using Paint.NET.

It was quite good but not without its problems, my favourite was to select an area of an image then watch the processor usage jump up to 50% just to animate the selection box.  It inability to deal with multiple documents also.

Well the Alpha of Paint.NET 3.0 is out and those two items are fixed and believe me when I say the multiple document handling is one of the best I’ve seen so far.

This app is no replacement for Photoshop if your a professional user, but for infrequent use especially just for photo re-touching its more than adequate it will suit down to the ground. 

I think that version 3.0 has ironed out some of the bugs and shortcomings of the interface and I just hope that now they will focus on more effects and better algorithms for the ones they have.  Although the Tile reflection effect is a joy and so is glow.

It was my wife’s and I’s anniversary this weekend gone and we went away for the night to Wroxton House Hotel.  We had a great room and a fantastic dinner, but then my brother is the head chef (hence the Shameless plug element).  This place is in the middle of nowhere but near banbury and who wants to go there !

I can recommend room two if you like stairs and loft space, no really it was quaint and quite large which makes up for the apex.

My brothers quite a cook too, have the lamb, I don’t normally eat lamb but I make an exception when my brother cooks it, he seems to get it just right and the cuts are perfect.  The chocolate tart was way too rich, so rich I scoffed the lot.

IF you just want a meal the price was reasonable to £22.50 a head for 3 courses (obviously check this as menus change all the time usually the season).

The down side is if you want to walk round the village, there is not one, ok ok there is a church and 10 or so houses your done in 10 minutes, they are nice thatched cottages though.  Good job its close to Straford-upon-Avon.

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Its here look.

Well with a name like that how could I resist. I mean a Herb centre but National ! Who could possibly imagine the delights that lay ahead in a National herb centre.

Well I could not believe my eyes as I walked through the magnificent front entrance. The scankiest excuse for garden centre on the face of the planet. Bucking current trends of great facilities, huge ranges of garden paraphenalia large stocks of plant, there was practically nothing. A poor excuse for a shop, plants that were dead and dying ravaged by insects, I know its close to winter but hey. A childs play area for those children with the attention span of a goldfish.

Its only saving grace was the coffee was really nice in the coffee house, even if it does take 15 minutes from point of order to arrive.

But despite this the car park was full (everyone was in the coffe house though).