Original Sinclair ZX81 Kits: Very tempted to buy one of these just for nostalgia sake, but a bit expensive at
Magic Links
Grand Illusions: A site featuring optical illusions, scientific toys, visual effects, and even a little magic. Check out the yoghurt pot with a memory, and the feature articles are a brilliant read.
purely magic: the official website of aaron smith. Home of silk through card, phenomenon, mind leaper, unlikely evidence, methodical.
Remote Show Control - Shows you how to Control your show with a laptop, and cue music on demand.
Wednesday, September 27, 2000 →
Tenyo Phantom Clock Patent: this time a patent for Lubor Fielders Tenyo trick. A very clever idea typical of the Lubor way of thinking!
Wednesday, September 27, 2000 →
Patent Optical Illusion device for Concealing an object for produciton: Another patent link, just like Copperfields Flying patent. This one is for a production box.
Wednesday, September 27, 2000 →
Kingston Cons - the future of telecommunications: Obviously some people don’t agree with my view on the price change. I really think though that the other ISP’s will get clogged up and have constant engaged tones. I guess I will stay with Karoo for now and see how the other ISP’s cope and what reports they get as more and more people hop on the wagon, I will NOT change to AOL though on a matter of principal 
Wednesday, September 27, 2000 →
Kingston Internet Ltd are my ISP and as I mentioned earlier in my blog are changing all their prices. I’ve just telephoned them to upgrade to the Karoo Anytime service, which is a whopping
Wednesday, September 27, 2000 →
Joseph Wu’s Origami Page: the first link to an origami page on this blog! I said I’d try to bring you more than just magic links… this one is via usr/bin/girl one of my favourite blogs… I should really try to make some models I picked up Robert Harbings ‘Magic of Paper Folding’ whilst on holiday, not a bad find for about
MCPCentral.Com - Flash & ASP Part1: Learn how to integrate the nice frontend of flash with the power of ASP, I’m in the process of teaching myself Flash4 but I guess this will be a little outdated now Flash5 has been released. The second part of the tutorial covers a little bit of Flash5.
RANTMODE: BTCellnet Had an interesting conversation with BTCellnet this dinner time, basically I had a Cellnet PAYG phone which I gave to my Sister when I swapped my phone for a Nokia 3210 on 121… She was talking to her best friend, who incidentally rang her, and suddenly she got cut off, and her phone had lost all her credit, which was about 4.50ukp. So she rang BTCellnet, and explained, and they said they would have to get an engineer to look into it… cut to a few weeks later, one of her first days at University and she was in Safeways shopping, when they rang her mobile, she told them it was not a good time. I think she eventually got the 4.50ukp out of them. Then I got this call today, apparently they have looked into the problem, and at first couldn’t find anything, and then suddenly they found that according to them she only lost about 2.40ukp… so they could issue her with a 2.50ukp voucher, so I got a bit angry with them asking if there was any compensation for the time she lost use of her mobile etc. But no we can’t do that Sir! So much for customer care! In their words “We only issue 2.50ukp vouchers” for a company that is predicted to make a 300million profit upto March 2001 you think they would invest in a little Customer Care… in fact if they sorted their network so people couldn’t chip their phones, and steal their profits or even use fake credit card numbers to get credit then they might be able to invest a little into making sure these problems don’t happen, the guy on the phone said he still didn’t know why it happened, glad to know that they have the experts working for them! Anyway she is thinking of changing her phone to One2One so thats some comfort. /RANTMODE
ProMagic @ www.ezboard.com: Received this link via e-mail, because they got my mailing address from a ‘Magic Forum’ and thought I might be interested! Anyway have a look at this forum its for Professional or Advanced level Magicians, not many messages there yet, and a bit of a struggle to register, but it might get going… you need a password which is the first initial and last name of the magician to which we attribute inventing the ‘olram subtlety’!
Saturday, September 23, 2000 →
CardMSG Magic: A site to keep your eyes on, still a little under construction but as the site says it contains an Online Guide to Quality Magic, Magicians and Magiclinks…
Blogger Comments: A very simple but elegant implementation of a comments attachment using PHP. I may wait for the Alpha of Blep but probably play about with this in the mean time, so watch out for a comments system to appear!
Devnut.com - Blep .. making blogger better, one step at a time.. Ryan is working on an XML implementation of a comments system for blogger which sounds very tasty! I think an alpha version should be out early october.
Thoughts about a possible Blogger Comments method. An open letter to Blogger from hit-or-miss.org about a possible way of adding a ‘static’ comments system into blogger. A good idea I guess but you might see an increase in ftp traffic. I’d rather use a non-blogger system.
Thursday, September 21, 2000 →
My Atomz search is not working, I’ll figure it later, I’ve changed the header logo and made the background stripey! Might be some more site updates tommorow.
Thursday, September 21, 2000 →
I really love the cute Linux mascot who goes by the name of Tux so XPenguins is something I will be running on my desktop, as soon as I have cleared my e-mail from my Windows setup and switched over.
Thursday, September 21, 2000 →
The Magic Pages: Contains some valuable lessons in various magic techniques and also a Library section which has an indepth look at various books, giving you a good description of the contents.
Thursday, September 21, 2000 →
If your in the market for a new set of cups for the Cups and Balls then check out the Selecting a set of Cups page from James Riser, who is a performer and a Machinist. He compares all the different cups on the market and gives you a frank review with some great photos. Personally I have never done the Cups and Balls, and the only way I think I would do it, to fit my character is to use Coffee Mugs or Polystyrene Cups and probably rolled up banknotes or paper. I just think those nice shiny cups and crochet balls scream PROP! I like to try and use everyday objects where at all possible. I read that Paul Gertner has a nice way of making a Chop Cup from a Coffee Mug in his recently re-printed book ‘Steel and Silver’. I think I might look at trying David Williamsons two cup routine with Coffee Mugs or Vending Machine Cups, or maybe even Bob Farmers Cyclops routine. The only drawback being that if using Mugs you need a routine where you don’t have to stack the cups!
Started to update the site by adding a Guestbook using an excellent cgi script called Megabook please sign it after your visit by clicking the link on the right of the screen. Next on the agenda is a search box, and a bit of a cosmetic update I think.
Evening Standard Article: Mention of some British based blogging in a UK newspaper article.
GBlogs Gateway: List of UK Weblogs.
Argh I’ve just seen that I finally made it into the Blogger directory… I guess that long overdue site update is called for…
Thats it then my little Sister Jo has finally gone, she’s off to Edge Hill to study Drama and English… Good Luck Jo!
Saturday, September 16, 2000 →
Magic Reference Page: Contains book and video references for certain tricks, for example if you are looking for a good sponge ball or linking rings or egg bag trick.
Roger Crosthwaite: Roger is a top UK card guy, and this website designed by Paul Gordon promises to give you good deals on his books, and two new videos. Keep your eyes peeled!
Thursday, September 14, 2000 →
Secrets Revealed!!!: Whilst we are exposing things, check this site out, the Masked Magician Reveals… I think it needs to be read with tongue in cheek, in case you don’t realise
Thursday, September 14, 2000 →
Patent for Copperfield/Gaughan Flying Illusion: I lost this link ages ago, its just been reposted on alt.magic… quite interesting to read how Copperfield achieves this illusion, and just goes to show that if you want to protect a magic illusion, you have to expose the secret so that anyone can read it!
Card Corner: An excellent Card Trick site, with effects by Aldo Colombini, Jay Sankey, Bob King and Tom Craven to name but a few. Most of the effects have been contributed by visitors or members of the Rochester Magic Clubs.