dpreview is in general a fab site, and my first stop for almost any information photographic. Anyway, they’ve posted an item about a new design of sensor for digicams that genuinely records RGB in a single chip: www.dpreview.com/news/0708/07080901nikonimagesensor.asp They’ve got a link to the US Patent Office with the full details, and this includes a […]
I thought I’d share my extemporaneous sing-along from this evening’s bath: … with Captain Jack… ‘cos Captain Jack… keeps coming back … with Dr Who… ‘cos Dr Who… got other things to do … in a small blue box… ‘cos a small blue box.. can’t work the locks The first one is definitely the best. […]
Right, should now work in everything, to a greater or lesser degree. [Edit: Obviously something has broken along the way!] I, for one, am really looking forward to the smoking ban that’s coming in at the start of July. While I don’t hold anything against smokers personally, I am fed up of getting home with […]
Friends on Facebook will already know my broadband suffered an outage on Saturday. Well, actually it’s still out. The set-top box stopped responding at 06.50 on Saturday morning, and the usual prodding didn’t bring it back to life, so I did what any computing professional would do in this scenario – unplugged it from the […]
It’s coming back. I never used to be able to see a guitar anywhere without starting to get itchy fingers – wanna play it, wanna play it!! I don’t know at what point it went away, but some point over the last 5 years my desire to play the guitar has waned. To be sure […]
I’ve just discovered Facebook. I’d heard about it quite a lot – conversations on the train, articles in the press, stuff on various websites – but couldn’t really be bothered with Yet Another Social Network Website. I’d given MySpace a good stab, but after 6 months or so I still only had one friend, and […]
Just got a curious e-mail: have you read the book on casino royal you silly little man, you have no idea what you are talking about. I can only assume this is a reference to this blog entry from Nov 2006, which was all about how much I disliked Casino Royale the film. This is […]
I’ve been having a go at my bicycle, which has been merrily rusting away in the garage for the last 3 years. The chain had about seized up, and both tyres were flat – and both brake cables had a lovely orange tint. So several days of soaking in oil and working it in didn’t […]
I’ve been struck by a few quotes over the last few weeks, for different reasons – here are some. How the other half live: It’s hard to believe that goat’s cheese salad used to be considered an exotic dish […] better than those old winter standbys Gruyere and Fontaine. Waitrose Magazine On vocation: Do not […]
About to start my Harry Potter re-read, in preparation for book 7. There’s 122 days until it lands on my doorstep, and I have 2757 pages to read before then. That’s between 22 and 23 pages a day. Actually I’m wondering if I might have left it a bit late!