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 →

Sunday, June 20, 2010 in Website & Blog

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 →

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 in My Publications, Personal News, Photography, Thoughts on the World, Website & Blog

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 →

Friday, May 14, 2010 in Photography

Superfreakonomics

Fascinating, fun, and more depth than the first book Continue reading →

Sunday, May 2, 2010 in Reviews

Architectural Photography

A sandwich with not quite enough meat Continue reading →

Heresy

Dodgy Dons Done to Death in Troubled Tudor Times Continue reading →

Sunday, April 18, 2010 in Reviews

Photographic Multishot Techniques

Disappointing content, and too much Photoshop Continue reading →

Sunday, March 21, 2010 in Photography, Reviews

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 →

Thursday, February 4, 2010 in Thoughts on the World

Virtual PC vs VMware Player – Further Thoughts

I’ve added a brief addendum to my piece on Virtual PC technologies. It turns out that VMware Player seems to be able to “fix” unreliable VMs. Microsoft’s lack of attention to compatibility has led me to a better product, and Continue reading →

Digital Convergence – Still Waiting

Another failed attempt to “converge” my phone. Why don’t I learn? Continue reading →

Sunday, January 17, 2010 in Reviews, Thoughts on the World

Windows Virtual PC – Breaking Compatibility

How Microsoft have badly broken compatibility (again!) with Virtual PC and Windows 7 Continue reading →