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The Big Blog Split
Well, maybe not exactly a split as such, but a new structure. “Thoughts on the World” is a pretty eclectic mix of professional, personal, humour and photography-related content. However, one reader who follows mainly my “professional” content expressed a wish Continue reading
IS Sometimes Doesn’t
The limitations of Image Stabilisation, and how camera manufacturers could address them very simply Continue reading
A Confident Prediction
Musings on the history and future of Microsoft Windows Continue reading
New Blog Now Live – Please Update Your Feed
Hi, My new blog is now live. This allows a lot more flexibility, including commenting etc. Please can you make sure you are taking your RSS feed from one of the following: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ThoughtsFromAndrewJohnston (preferred) https://www.andrewj.com/blog/index.php/feed/ (straight from my site) I Continue reading
Lots of News
Quite a lot of news… Migration of our web sites and email to the new hosting server is almost complete. See previous article/rant for some of my findings. After some initial frustration with my hosting provider (WebFusion) when I discovered Continue reading
In Damnation of PHP
<rant>Apologies if the title is a bit strong, but I think it’s the nearest I can get to the opposite of “In Praise of PHP” I’ve just spent a week-end migrating my website to a new hosting server. As part Continue reading
What I Want In My Next DSLR
What’s missing from the typical DSLR, anno 2010? What could be improved, using simple established technologies, to make the DSLR a better picture-taking device? And why don’t the major DSLR manufacturers do some of these things, which might help sales? Continue reading
Superfreakonomics
Fascinating, fun, and more depth than the first book Continue reading
Architectural Photography
A sandwich with not quite enough meat Continue reading
Heresy
Dodgy Dons Done to Death in Troubled Tudor Times Continue reading
Photographic Multishot Techniques
Disappointing content, and too much Photoshop Continue reading
Word Grammar Checker – A Nicely Carribean Flavour
This may amuse you. I went to type “Here are my comments” (something I do fairly frequently), but mis-typed it as “Here are me comments”. Word correctly identifies this as incorrect grammar, with a green line under “are”. Right click, Continue reading
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