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Slik Sprint Mini Tripod – review

After getting my new camera bag, I sold my old one (thanks Andrew !) and got this tripod with the proceeds. Looking at the PDF on the UK…

pigeon frenzy

Marksman Called In To Kill Kingstons Pigeons (from Surrey Comet): http://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1039169.0.marksman_called_in_to_kill_kingstons_pigeons.php Uninspiring article, amazing comments: don’t read them whilst drinking any sort of liquid unless you want to…

Tamrac Adventure 9 – review

Since my last camera bag review seemed to generate so much interest, here’s another one ! Things have changed quite a bit in the last 17 months, and…

Natural UFO’s ?

Cloud Shapes: http://pic1.funtigo.com/valuca/?g=25544746&cr=1 Some amazing pictures here (page will take a while to render though) that make UFO stories so much more understandable. Assuming I haven’t been duped…

Cool – they did it

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Unsigned band make chart history: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6260995.stm Number 31. Now I might just have to find out what they sound like, but to be…

Do Something When

Azarhi Software: http://www.azarhi.com/Projects/DSW/ What a useful program: found in the comments to a hint on MacOSXHints, this Preference Pane allows applications to be triggered on disc mounts and…

Vive la revolucion ?

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Unsigned band set to crash charts: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6248535.stm Unsigned, and tipped to make the UK Top 40: not without plenty of hard work (500…

Tony Hawks != Tony Hawk

Tony Hawks – The Official Website: http://www.tony-hawks.com/skatemail.php “As you can see, they are not the same person. Tony Hawk is an American whizz kid skateboarding champion, whilst I…

aperture 1.5.2 hack

Update: 15dec06 If you have a PowerBook model with a CPU below 1.25GHz then there’s no need to binary edit this version of Aperture: click on the post…

Scary Mary

Neil Gaiman – Neil Gaiman’s Journal: By Request…: http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2006/12/by-request.html Now that’s a film I wouldn’t mind watching… (requires Flash)

AtomFilms – Animator vs. Animation II

AtomFilms – Animator vs. Animation II: http://www.atomfilms.com/af/content/animator_vs_animation_2 Superb flash animation: noisy and with so much action it’s almost impossible to take in on the first viewing. If you…

The Joy of Tech comic… laughter is the best tech support.

Botox face: http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/892.html It’s almost as if they read my last post: cool – I get my very own personal comic writers ! Or maybe not, but I…

nothing says ‘I love you’ quite like…

Amazon. What a wonderfully crafted email they just sent my way (straight from the lads’ mag marketing department), entitled: Great gifts from £5.99 for her this Christmas at…

xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe

Matrix Transform: http://xkcd.com/c184.html Well, it made me laugh this morning but I think it merely confirms that even with so many camera posts lately I haven’t stopped being…

four free aperture 1.5 themes

Not new, but (finally) updated versions of the previous four themes for the new location of the web themes in {Aperture} 1.5 (and 1.5.1). This version also has…