A couple months back I lost my OS hard drive to a head crash, and had to start afresh. Choice was between good old faithful stalwart Windows XP, or new fangled Windows 7. Did I stick with the reliable trusty friend I knew so well, or take the plunge into an exciting new world of [...]
The other day, someone said to me (and I honestly can’t quite remember who or where, but I seem to recall someone on 365project.org) that I should watch a documentary named “The Case For Christ”, as it was made by a sceptical guy who, upon investigating some science things, suddenly realised the one true path [...]
When you desaturate it a little bit in Lightroom. What? This: Amy Hughes from 365project posted up a new challenge earlier today, for a bunch of us to take a shot of a common object, and see how varied the results would be. I had a bit of a crazy idea and ended up with [...]
I’ve just been awoken, for the third time in recent memory, in the early hours of the morning, by my computer deciding to play the YouTube-based music video I’d left open in a browser tab, all by itself, for no reason. Well, I say “for no reason”, but that reason can only possibly be “because [...]
So I knew Google had rolled out some pretty impressive speed updates in the last few months, and were updating portions of their index much more rapidly than they’ve ever done before, but I’d not had a first hand experience of it myself until just now. Person makes thread on 365project.org talking about Starbucks’ new [...]
1280 x 1024!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Haha DYSWIDT?!?!?!!?1 etc But no, really. I don’t “do” New Years Retributions because they’re generally done in mawkish ways by mawkish sorts and abandoned inside of January… and why only decide to reboot yourself once per year? Stop being mawkish. What’s in a name anyway? A new year’s just another day; why [...]
Picture the scene: you picks up your mobile phone, and you dials in a specific class of number, usually free from a land line – an 0800, say. Now perhaps other networks are different but, with Orange, you presses dial and the first thing you’s greeted with is a lovely little pre-recorded message; You’ll be [...]
Had an idea today – how about shining a torch onto the back of my finger, and actually painting with my finger? Light shining through, maybe I’d be able to paint with fingerprints being visible!? Well, my mini maglite torches weren’t bright enough to shine through my fingers strongly enough for that. So I just [...]
Bokeh. Pronounced “bow-key” (ish) it’s a word I find enormously phonetically annoying which means “stuff in a photograph what ain’t in focus, like”; technically speaking, of course. Well, specifically, points of light/colour which aren’t in focus, oft-times looking similar to this: Well, that’s all well and good, but it’s rather boring. Luckily, due to some [...]
With quite some scepticism I clicked the link to the video entitled The XX Gon’ Give It To Ya (DMX Vs. The XX). Not being, generally, a fan of “mash” “ups”, and with these two being so contrasting, how could this ever work? Well, this is how. If you like it as much as I [...]