Monthly Archives: July 2011

Website and Email Back

Apologies to anyone who has had a problem with my website or sending me email over the last few days. I had a rogue backup process which was carefully filling the disk with old backups! Thanks to Webfusion Support for fixing things so efficiently.

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Turning Points

A regular correspondent of mine just posed an interesting question: “The Web has significantly evolved over the past 15 years. What have been the major milestones in the web’s evolution either in business or technology?”   That’s quite a big Continue reading

Monday, July 18, 2011 in Thoughts on the World

…And Then Three Come Along All At Once

Reflections on an excellent Summer for live music Continue reading

Tuesday, July 12, 2011 in Reviews, Thoughts on the World

What’s in a Name?

I just had a bit of a scare. An app which tracks my Twitter activity informed me that “DignitasLtd” had started following me. Of course, I immediately thought of the Swiss clinic, and wondered what they knew that my doctor Continue reading

Thursday, July 7, 2011 in Uncategorized

Image Stabilisation – Know Your Limits?

I’ve blogged previously on the other merits of Canon’s wonderful EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM lens, but not really its image stabilisation characteristics. This shot from Cuba shows how good the lens is in that respect. The above is an Continue reading

Wednesday, July 6, 2011 in Cuba Travel Blog, Photography

Low Cost Geotagging Using Bibble

I decided a while ago that it would be useful to “geotag” my photographs, i.e. to automatically record the location from which each is taken and add that to each images’s metadata. As my next photographic trip is to Iceland Continue reading

Saturday, July 2, 2011 in Photography, Travel