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Automating Photo Publishing with Lightroom
If you’re anything like me, you’re a really keen picture-taker, a fairly keen editor, and a grudging filer. Somehow publishing can get lost, but it’s publishing that allows people to actually see your...
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First Star Trail Success
Canon EOS 1d MkIII with EF16-35 F/2.8L II lens @ 31mm 265x 30s @ F/8 ISO 200 This is my first tar trail that I’m reasonably happy to publish. Taken in the back garden, it’s stacked from 265 shots. The...
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Namby-Pambyism and Children’s Yoghurt Commercials
This is a box of Frubes. Within are six little sachets of fruit-flavoured yoghurt. It’s entirely possible to envisage the tubes all standing to attention inside the box. This is the general thrust of...
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Studying Orion with a Camera
Orion is one of the most readily identifiable constellations in the night sky. Most visible in winter, when it’s a night-time feature of the sky, Orion is easily located via its triumvirate of aligned...
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iPhone Camera Touch Controls
Whether it’s a blessing or a curse says probably more about the owner than Apple, but I find that their non-production of documentation is a rather frustrating thing. See, I like to read the manual,...
View ArticleWhy Damon Hill is All Wrong
So this week is British Grand Prix week. And during GP week, loads of magazines who have no idea about F1 trot out whoever they think we may have heard of to give some soundbites on F1. It’s a bit...
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Come in Felipe, Your Time is Up
“Felipe: Your F1 career is behind you. Can you confirm you understand this message” Felipe Massa has been the #2 Ferrari F1 driver for a very long time now. In fact, since the team dropped Rubens...
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My Juvenile Sense of Humour
Not all blog posts should be heartfelt, or rambling, or ranting, or educational. Some can just be a bit silly. A popular insult… Can you see what it is yet?
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Moving Mercedes Men
I’ll put it out there straight away. I’m a big fan of Lewis Hamilton. I think that his talent in the car is incredible, and watching him put it to work is fascinating. He’s in many ways like Jean...
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A Munich Photoblog
So, the stag party invitation said Munich. A weekend’s heavy drinking in the beer capital of the world sounded a little on the dangerous side, but worth it for the adventure points alone. Naturally,...
View ArticleThe Government is Not Serious about Buying ICT from SMEs
For several years now, spokespeople close to Government ICT (Information & Communication Technology) procurement have stated a wish to reduce reliance on big companies like Fujitsu and Capita, and...
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What’s Wrong with Twitter?
What’s wrong with Twitter? Well, it’s the same thing that’s wrong with Facebook, SnapChat, or ask.fm. It’s the same thing that’s wrong with the television, and cinema, and the telephone. It’s the same...
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One Direction: To Prostitute Themselves at the Merchandise Stalls!
One Direction Perfume. Whatever Next? I don’t want to come over all “in my day,” but… I tended always to prefer music that was made by groups that formed. Were not manufactured. Where the songs were...
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Studying Orion with a Camera
Orion is one of the most readily identifiable constellations in the night sky. Most visible in winter, when it’s a night-time feature of the sky, Orion is easily located via its triumvirate of aligned...
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iPhone Camera Touch Controls
Whether it’s a blessing or a curse says probably more about the owner than Apple, but I find that their non-production of documentation is a rather frustrating thing. See, I like to read the manual,...
View ArticleWhy Damon Hill is All Wrong
So this week is British Grand Prix week. And during GP week, loads of magazines who have no idea about F1 trot out whoever they think we may have heard of to give some soundbites on F1. It’s a bit...
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Come in Felipe, Your Time is Up
“Felipe: Your F1 career is behind you. Can you confirm you understand this message” Felipe Massa has been the #2 Ferrari F1 driver for a very long time now. In fact, since the team dropped Rubens...
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My Juvenile Sense of Humour
Not all blog posts should be heartfelt, or rambling, or ranting, or educational. Some can just be a bit silly. A popular insult… Can you see what it is yet?
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Moving Mercedes Men
I’ll put it out there straight away. I’m a big fan of Lewis Hamilton. I think that his talent in the car is incredible, and watching him put it to work is fascinating. He’s in many ways like Jean...
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A Munich Photoblog
So, the stag party invitation said Munich. A weekend’s heavy drinking in the beer capital of the world sounded a little on the dangerous side, but worth it for the adventure points alone. Naturally,...
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