Author Archives: Andrew
Anachronisms in television usually consist of something too modern for the period, but I’ve just spotted the opposite. In the UK series Whitechapel the mortuary assistant takes pictures of the all-too frequent victims using a Zenit TTL. Now I know they were bomb-proof cameras – I owned one in the early 1980s and dropped it down a Pyrenee – and I know Whitechapel isn’t the wealthiest corner of London, but surely the Metropolitan police and the London Coroner’s Office could afford something saying Canon or Nikon? Not convinced…
View featured image in Album
Musings on why Microsoft are abandoning colour as a dimension for information visualisation Continue reading →
Apologies to regular readers of my blog for the delay since my last significant post. I’ve been very busy with a number of things: working overtime at National Grid, getting new consultancy contracts running, updating my Bibble plugin to work Continue reading →
Thursday, February 2, 2012 in
Photography,
Website & Blog
Microsoft have released an arguably belated but nonetheless very welcome version of OneNote optimised for the iPad and with very good synchronisation to the PC. It’s not perfect, but it’s good enough that I’ve updated my guidance on how to Continue reading →
Monday, January 16, 2012 in
iPad,
Thoughts on the World
I’m finally processing the shots from our trip to Bruges in 2010, and I found this one I particularly liked. It’s light projected through a stained glass window at the Basilica of the Holy Blood, onto one of the internal Continue reading →
Thursday, December 15, 2011 in
Photography,
Travel
I’ve finally managed to publish my photography portfolio from Cuba. Take a look and let me know what you think… Apologies if you use the RSS feed for my album – this will be fixed in a day or two. Continue reading →
Thursday, December 8, 2011 in
Cuba Travel Blog,
Photography,
Travel
If you’re one of those people who uses loads of Apple products, and is thinking of proposing Steve Jobs for canonisation, then you may be happy with how your iPad works, but if you’re trying to make it work effectively Continue reading →
I don’t know whether anyone else has this problem, but it can take me an inordinate amount of time to process photos from larger trips and events. Today is the anniversary of my return from my Cuba trip (as I’ve Continue reading →
Thursday, November 24, 2011 in
Cuba Travel Blog,
Travel
After an inevitable delay while I set up my new PC, I’m finally back to sorting out some images. The new beast certainly does what I wanted it to. Processing an 18MP RAW file on the old laptop took up Continue reading →
Thursday, November 17, 2011 in
Cuba Travel Blog
Musings on why my laptops are getting bigger and heavier, instead of smaller and lighter Continue reading →
For the last couple of years, I’ve been working fairly regularly with a chap called Carl. The other day a group of us were chatting, and got to talking about cars we had owned. Among others, Carl had once owned Continue reading →
Friday, October 28, 2011 in
Thoughts on the World
List
Abstract
One+Abstract
Email me
Others
Thoughts on the World (Main Feed)
Main feed (direct XML)