Thanks to Jamie for introducing us to Spaced — about eight years after everyone else for us, but better late than never. As an added bonus we were surprised and amused to see that the house featured is just round the corner from us. So today we went round and took a photo, just to [...]
Two videos for a sunny Friday afternoon. First the tragedy: From Ernst and Young. I couldn’t improve on Lloyd’s description: “The Day US Corporate Culture Jumped The Biggest Chuffing Whale Shark You Have Ever Seen”. I’m afraid I couldn’t bear to watch it to the end. Second, the comedy: A lovely David Blaine spoof via [...]
Some time ago I reviewed online photo printing services — those sites where you could upload your photos so they would print them out and send them to you. In that review Bonusprint came out top. But recently I had to reconsider. One set of prints from Bonusprint came back with many photos bent, smudged, [...]
Two photos from my trip to the cash machine today. Tags: photography
I am absolutely not intending to buy a nice lens to replace my bog standard 18-55mm kit lens. Not at all. But I am doing the research for one because, you know, that’s where most of the fun’s to be had. And so one question I need to answer is: What is the focal length [...]
An intrepid reader from The North writes with three links for colour calibration of monitors and printers. My thanks to him… Technical information to explain colour calibration; Information on calibration that’s less technical; A utility to aid calibration (which I’ve not tried so cannot vouch for). The commentary (which is in a newsletter, not on [...]
One photo of many from our weekend in Malvern. I can particularly recommend the bus journey to Ledbury which (as a Londoner) made me think perhaps Postman Pat isn’t such a work of fiction after all. Pedestrians waved to the driver (his name is Spike) as he passed them; he dropped one regular passenger off [...]
The Editors Weblog (no apostrophe) has part one of a series called “Learnings from a study tour”. It begins The aggressive UK printings market has embraced online happenings, making evolvings quick to stay ahead of the playings. Editors Weblog has spoken to top leadings at two quality and two tabloid printings to try and garner [...]
This weekend we played a new game, far more jolly than the dusty Country, County, Town. Someone chooses a theme, and then everyone writes a paragraph on that using only words without the letter E. Then you read them out. And that’s it. No winners, though inevitably someone makes a slip and gets drowned by [...]
On Friday we joined old friends and celebrated the 50th anniversary of the School of Computing at the University of Leeds. Specially brewed for the occasion was a rather dark beer, whose credentials were printed in hexadecimal. On Saturday we visited Knaresborough, and in a tea shop there overheard an elderly lady recalling her troubles [...]
