I have, until recently, been consistently shit at dealing with paperwork. I do have a paper file, but I filled it up with crap during a brief organised phase years ago and then gave up and went back to leaving piles of paperwork around the house - gas bills, tax stuff, insurance details, whatever - all in big piles. I'm OK at keeping stuff ( Read more... )

Do the poor have a right to live in expensive areas?This argument seems to centre around two viewpoints ( Read more... )

For those who haven't heard of 3D printers, essentially they print 3d objects in various materials; some are used for printing out models of people's World of Warcraft characters, but the real promise is using them to print out mechanical parts: NASA are testing one on the International Space Station, where it would be very handy to be able to ( Read more... )

A story about how two brothers stole their fathers 1969 Norton Commando, had it restored and then gave it back to him for Christmas.

15min long but worth every second. I think I got something in my eye during the last 5min.

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Kinda sets the bar for Christmas presents to the folks, huh?

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Some heights do not scare me, some do. This is exactly the wrong sort of height, as climbed by someone who does it for a living and doesn't bother with a safety harness throughout.

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Just back from catching "If..." at the Buffalo Bar. Seen the once before and was impressed, but am more coherently impressed this time. Have decided that what I like most about them is the sublime guitar, although (unsurprisingly) Jo is excellent also, particularly when singing. The spoken word stuff is well done but not my thing ( Read more... )

I've never understood the point of black & white film. I get that black & white photos look cool and arty, of course, but I can't understand why people would want to capture less information, rather than take the photos in full glorious colour and check later in potatoshop which look better in monochrome ( Read more... )

I have long wondered why cameras need elaborate lighting setups to capure stuff that you or I can see quite easily with a Mk.I eyeball. It looks like someone is finally getting to grips with the problem.

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

HDR Video Demonstration Using Two Canon 5D mark II's from Soviet Montage on Vimeo.

I've never (yet) bought or owned an Apple device, but I do love what they do to any market they enter. Tablet PCs have been around for ages but now everyone is launching new devices that will be vastly superior to those that came before, as they struggle to match the iPad for usability (as well as no doubt trouncing it on spec and open-ness ( Read more... )