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Gloves for Photography

Taking pictures in cold weather has always been a little problematical as nice warm gloves don’t really help when fiddling with DSLR settings. One fairly decent solution I…

i has been mostly…

Today, I has been mostly trying to convince FrameMaker not to change baudrate into obdurate. It’s very persistent, though.

on being accurate

A quote from a meeting at work earlier today: P: So, will this be a complete audio/visual presentation ? S: Yes. It’ll be me, talking. Geeks – pfft….

Nokia N770, Asterisk and Google Talk

I’ve wanted to get a VoIP application working on my N770 pretty much since day 1: the trouble is I’m rather picky… I want to be able to…

iphone uk – amusement in the wrong places

Apple – iPhone UK on O2 – Macworld UK: http://macworld.co.uk/ipod-itunes/news/index.cfm?newsid=19123 Alluding to the decision to make market moves with O2, Jobs said: “We wanted to know a few…

i is in yr pool, sinking yr servr3s

After meaning to get around to it for a year or so, I’ve finally got my Qube 2 providing time public services to the NTP UK Pool. Check…

aperture 1.5.4 hack

As with the previous v1.5.3 tweaks, the Info.plist change for CPU speed (and RAM, if your system needs it) was all that was required to enable my ageing…

messing with purchase prediction software

A few years ago Tesco caused a stir with their loyalty card and the use of purchase histories to offer targeted coupons to users of the cards, which…

exim-4.67 vs. spammers

I’ve been more than usually annoyed by a particular set of spammers who keep pushing press releases of their Windows blogging software – annoyed because it slips though…

Max Tyrie’s Hand Made Modest Mouse Video

What to do with 4133 frames of video, a D-SLR and a printer with plenty of ink and paper… Max Tyrie’s Hand Made Modest Mouse Video: http://www.woostercollective.com/2007/05/shit_were_diggin_max_tyries_hand_made_mo.html (Via:…

new music

New to me that is. Slightly less late to the party than I was with OK, Computer (10 years after release !), I’ve found a lot to listen…

lolthings

These last few weeks I’ve been rather distracted, thanks to a question from Duncan regarding lolcats, in particular linking to icanhascheezburger, which I can now say does run…

wonderfully titled sales email

Following on from the misogynist email from Amazon, a rather more apposite one from iWorld: From: iWorld.co.uk@…. Subject: FREE Noise Isolating Earphones for Fathers Day! Doesn’t say which…

review: mozy – free online backup

After having used it for a few weeks I really ought to mention Mozy [1], partly to try and get some extra storage space, but mostly because it’s…

last.fm widget

The ‘local noise’ entry in the sidebar is now active with last.fm‘s Flash based widget and shows the most recent tracks I’ve been listening too. Not that exciting,…