Going Too Far

June 9, 2010

Rafael Correa of Ecuador speaking during Hillary Clinton’s visit: The new left that I represent is not anti anything. We are not anti-capitalist. We are not anti-American. We are not anti-imperialist. We are pro-dignity, pro-sovereignty, pro-social justice, pro-good life for our people. We are in favour of the good things. Steady on fella: it’s ok to be [...]

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Lightroom 3 Released

June 8, 2010

Adobe has released the final version of their excellent image editing and organising application today. According to Wired: The flagship change was in the RAW rendering engine, Adobe Camera RAW (ACR). This is what takes the raw information from the camera’s sensor and turns it into a set of pixels that we recognize an an [...]

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Another Out of Control Government Website Budget

June 8, 2010

Quote of the day: You need to ask yourself whether £360,000 seems like a fair price for such a website. I’d suggest it isn’t. Even with a significant allocation for design, I’d have thought you could produce a similar result – with better functionality – for 95% less. If there’s more going on behind the [...]

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Fake Steve vs Real Gruber

April 26, 2010

I think I’m posting way too may Apple related things. Still, this discussion on Ars Technica forums about the rather hilarious Fake Steve post concerning uber Apple apologist John Gruber of Daring Fireball contained a succinct summery of why Grubber can be so annoying: Gruber is very good at making arguments, but generally he uses [...]

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Wish List Denied

April 14, 2010

A while back, I posted a short wish list of features I wanted to see in the next revision of Apple’s MacBook Pro line. These included more USB ports (no joke – there are only two of them) as well as hope that Apple wouldn’t continue to sacrifice functionality and performance in favour of making [...]

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Travels in the Middle

March 24, 2010

I’m once again out here in Dubai, trying to workout how can spend even more time out here. The idea is to design and build a “baby galv” line out here and if all goes well, I may very well get my wish. Here is a nice of the afternoon sun out of my hotel [...]

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Political Mercury Rising

February 28, 2010

I’m by no means convinced by the Tories and I’m certainly not a fan of William Hague but as election bluster goes, this is rather good: Mr Brown may not want to discuss his pension-destroying, gold-selling, golden-rule-breaking, national debt-doubling, money-wasting, tax-raising, colleague-rubbishing, pledge-betraying, election-bottling record, but we do. Via BBC.

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Born of frustration: A MBP wish list

February 8, 2010

Dear Apple, Yes I know, you have to make it sexy and thin to appeal to a large constituent of your users for whom – how shall I put this – utility is not the first priority. But lets not be disingenuous; I love the feel and look of the current MacBook Pro as much [...]

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Ikea Dolly Hack

January 15, 2010

I’ve seen a few DIY camera dolly projects but this one is one of the easiest I’ve come across and gives great results.

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At Work

December 11, 2009

In case you’ve been wondering, this is what I’ve been working on for the past year or so.

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