My desk smells of coffee
My leg smells of coffee
My bin smells of coffee
The floor is damp
My mouse drips
My heart falls
My cup is empty
Oh.
Monthly Archives: June 2008
cambridge traffic – makes tax laws look simple
- Today, I left the house 45 minutes earlier than normal in order to renew my car tax
- I waited 15 minutes at the Post Office, and then continued my drive into the city
- I got on the Park-n-ride as usual
- When I got off the bus I found I was at my destination a full 1 hour earlier than normal
I know I watch a fair bit of Doctor Who these days, but really…
ad to the bone – The Executive Coloring Book
ad to the bone – The Executive Coloring Book: http://www.adtothebone.com/tecb/theexecutivecoloringbook.html
Via John Nack
once you’ve been a sysadmin, it doesn’t leave you…
Despite falling into the role years ago, it never left me behind (despite what my current job title may say) as I’ve just discovered. There’s a power outage right now and I found myself myself:
- Unscrewing cabinets to get access to cables laid years ago
- Moving the DECT base station onto a UPS (something I never got around to doing in the last 12 months)
- Rerouting the WiFi power cable to come off a newer UPS with spare capacity
- Patching the WiFi through onto a spare switch
- Blogging about it
…and then realising I’m at home.
…and it’s a Sunday.
Ooh, the kids have just come round and said the cables are down – time to grab a camera and go and have a look 
Update: It wasn’t the hardest problem in the world to spot…
- Let’s count the wires !
- 1…
- …
- Oh.
- I suppose the other three shouldn’t be on the ground, then ?
Luminous Landscape: Do Sensors “Outresolve” Lenses?
I had been wondering why I don’t seem to be drawn to photography magazines very much – I had assumed that sites like Flickr had quenched my desire to look at other people’s images, and unless I had a large amount of spare money, equipment reviews tend to loose their appeal after a while.
Then I read this:
Do Sensors “Outresolve” Lenses?: http://luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/resolution.shtml
Wow.
It’s got about as much to do with photography as metallurgy has to do with driving a car: engine blocks aren’t often the subject of much thought when going on holiday, but go and talk to an F1 designer for a while and it’ll soon become apparent that what you do with the car and how you build the engine matter. Lots. In other words it’s a great read for an Engineer with some really interesting figures and maths that I’m going to have to go back and re-read a couple of times, and it may actually influence future lens and camera buying decisions.
But it tells you nothing about how to take a great portrait.
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