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AD12: Chocolate
Though I have been silent for a couple of weeks, I’ve not been inactive on the whole artist date front. I’ve just been a little too busy to write up last week’s date until now. Last week I took an hour...
View ArticleThe Morning News: Paris and the Data Mind
The Morning News: Paris and the Data Mind Craig Mod: It’s no longer just the edges of a life, a general amassed physicality. It’s the millimeter precision of runs, the numbers of times “Hey Jude” was...
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AD13 & AD14: Bikes, Art, Records and Photography
I’ve been a busy bee these last few weeks. A little too busy, sadly, and I’ve been neglecting a few things, as you might have noticed from the dearth of posts on t’blog. On the plus side, I’ve learned...
View ArticleWhat To Do When The Bus Doesn’t Come And You Want To Scream. An Experiment :...
NPR: What To Do When The Bus Doesn’t Come And You Want To Scream. An Experiment : Krulwich Wonders…: A few years ago, The New York Times reported that airline passengers in Houston were complaining...
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Pocket Spacecraft
You may remember Michael Johnson and his Pocket Spacecraft project from my artist date at the Pervasive Media Studios. This morning I learned that the Kickstarter for Pocket Spacecraft is now up and...
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The first hundred’s the most difficult…
Well, that’s sweet. My first little app for iOS — trivial, but it seems to fill a certain niche — just hit $100 in revenue. I released it a couple of months back, so it’s therefore earning me about...
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Command-Backslash not working with the 1Password Safari Extension?
For us old-school keyboard-lovers, 1Password’s Safari extension provides a handy shortcut: pressing Cmd-\ activates the extension. If you’ve found this doesn’t work on your Mac (it worked fine on my...
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Bloons
Three of my photos from the Balloon Fiesta this weekend. It’s been good. Though I was too knackered to get up for the mass ascent this morning, which was a shame, as it looked like nice blue skies…
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Sometimes I use my phone camera to decide if it’s worth getting the big camera out. iPhone & Instagram: 60D, EF-S 17–55 f/2.8 IS & Lightroom:
View ArticleTrace/BPT trap: 5 when accessing SystemVersion.plist in Mavericks
If you’re reading this blog entry because you’re a subscriber, I’d stop now and skip this one. Unless you’re extremely geeky. This is more of a public service announcement to anyone who’s installed OSX...
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Favourite Photo of the Month 2013
As is traditional, here are my favourites of my own photos of 2013. Not necessarily the best photos of my year, technically, but the ones I like the most. January: Esplanade Road. Portishead. Taken on...
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Obsolete Paper
It’s Spring. Or it feels like it, anyway. So I’m pruning my (paper book) library, picking out anything from the shelves that I’ll never read again, or that has no sentimental value, and chucking it...
View ArticleSpring Cleaning
You might find some strange, occasional hiccups with this blog and possibly its RSS feed over the next week or two. Don’t worry. It’s just me doing some long-overdue Spring cleaning, and installing a...
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Birthday
Yesterday I turned forty one. Last year, a few days before my birthday, I went on a long walk around Bristol and Leigh Woods in the fresh snow. The walk through the woods was so lovely that I’ve...
View ArticleRevealing the Library Folder in OS X Mavericks
My post on Revealing Lion’s Hidden Library Folder is by far the most popular post on this blog. It seems that plenty of people thought that hiding the Library folder in the Lion release of OS X was a...
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New Toy
I think I first heard about the Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM lens from Marco Arment. Wherever I heard about it, I’m glad I did. Mine arrived in the post this morning, so I slipped this lightweight,...
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Smoking
Sometimes, I’m full of energy and ideas and get lots of things done. So it was on Monday and Tuesday this week. Today, though, I got a bit of work done in the morning, and pretty much crashed at the...
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Placeholder Satisfaction
I’m no designer, but there’s something very satisfying about the first time I replace the development environment’s placeholder icon in an app with a placeholder of my own. I use Sketch for most of my...
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Progress Jars
I’m trying to collect together my best photos. While I’ve mostly been good at processing photos and rating them in Lightroom as I take them, my quality standards have changed over time. This happens...
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