Thinker, Blogger, Hacker, Hiker.
How best to weather seal your Canon 5D mkII (if you're me)
How best to weather seal your Canon 5D mkII (if you're me)
25 January 2013
CING recently asked on twitter how photographers looked weather sealed their cameras: CING photographers, anyone using this weather seal for your camera? what do you think? #photographer ow.ly/h1a09 — CINGnetwork (@CINGnetwork) January 23, 2013 and so I thought I'd share this photo of me, from Scotland (the summit of Ben MacDui in fact) in December, […]
SayNoTo0870 Man-in-the-middle attack theory
SayNoTo0870 Man-in-the-middle attack theory
23 January 2013
Background SayNoTo0870 is a great service that helps people find geographic alternatives to expensive 0845 and 0870 numbers. An example might be that my bank has a number "0845 123456" for it's lost credit card hotline. It also has the same number "0161 123456". From mobile numbers and most landlines, calling the geographical number, will […]
Trying to communicate: the best part of your story.
Trying to communicate: the best part of your story.
16 January 2013
Frequently, people avoid travelling away from tourist focused locations because they're worried about whether they will be understood, I'd suggest that means they miss out of the best part of the experience. msadvn recently said on reddit: The stories of trying to communicate (and hopefully succeeding) might be some of the best parts of your […]
Does CBS "get" digital? CNET is dead. Last.fm is killing itself. Is it too late to turn the tide?
Does CBS "get" digital? CNET is dead. Last.fm is killing itself. Is it too late to turn the tide?
15 January 2013
CBS, the media conglomerate, are verging on irritating me. They've effectively just killed CNET through a disastrous corporate decision, effectively killing the impartiality of the organisation. When high profile journalists quit, citing that their impartiality has been called into question, and the Editor-in-chief explains the incident in an statement using the line: I could have […]
Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz
13 January 2013
The recent death of Aaron Swartz has saddened of me, and many other people. This is the guy who at 14, wrote part of the original RSS spec, was an early programmer at reddit, and was deeply passionate about the things he believed in. Aaron was someone I'd have been glad to meet – he […]
How did my plans for 2012 work out?
How did my plans for 2012 work out?
30 December 2012
I made some plans at the start of 2012 for the year ahead and whilst I managed to somewhat take the edge of this post by posting a "final quarter review" 3/4's of the way through the year, a few things have changed since then. Since then, I've done more blogging than ever, I've wanted […]
2012: A year in photos
2012: A year in photos
29 December 2012
This year, across 4 different Cameras, I've taken just over 20,000 photos. That's a lot of photos, and I thought it might be nice to share some of my favourite photos of 2012. Taken on a camera phone, the following photo proves that it's the subject, not an expensive camera, which makes the picture.
Funny interview questions: how stupid are they?
Funny interview questions: how stupid are they?
21 December 2012
I was recently debating with someone on Facebook about this article on the Top 10 Worst/Funny interview questions. My answers to the questions were: Not sure, can I use google to find out find out the volume of a golf ball, and volume of a bus? Can I just ask Bing? Some kind of consideration […]
Docufilming: The art of narrative
Docufilming: The art of narrative
20 December 2012
After a while of playing with video stuff, you realise that it gets surprisingly simple when you just bin the audio and stick music over the top. Sure, there are noticeable differences you can make – putting cut on the change of a bar for instance, but largely there's very little to it – you're just […]
How do you explain a blog post, as a medium, to someone who doesn't immediately understand what it is?
How do you explain a blog post, as a medium, to someone who doesn't immediately understand what it is?
19 December 2012
I remember, when I was younger, my Grandfather telling me I should write something every day. "Ho ho", thought I, "Why would one ever want to do that?" Well come 2012, since I managed to seprate handwriting from writing, I do want to do that, but considering my Grandfather is, quite understandably (and sensibly) not […]
Diet: what I ate
Diet: what I ate
18 December 2012
I've never particuarly given a lot of thought to food. To me at least, food is fuel for doing cool stuff, that happens, sometimes, to be quite enjoyable. I can understand that this may be somewhat at odds with approaches to food as a creative outlet – I can sympathise with this – occasionally I […]
The Out Takes
The Out Takes
12 December 2012
I've done some really nice hiking club videos, but I rarely show the stuff that's neither picturesque nor insightful. This had to be put right. (watch in HD if you can) httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fkMXpEvOzOk Part of my video a week thing.