My large camera rucksack was just getting crazy. I was carrying my own weight in kit and climbing up steep hills. It was killing me, probably literally, as my health right now isn’t A1. So time to wisen up over this and scale things down. So I am now using a much much smaller rucksack [...]
June 2008
I love my Nikon D200 and the artillery of lenses that I own alongside it but often times, its not practical to carry with me – At least not in my pocket! I therefore also own a compact digital that can just about fit in my pocket… My Lumix is modelled on the classic Leica [...]
I have often wondered whether Google would one day offer some new services that would allow you to gather all of your starred items from Gmail, Reader, Bookmarks and Notebook together into one place. It would be called “Google Central” or something along these lines. You would then be able to easily view items you [...]
I am blogging like a crazy horse today, yes yes you may have guessed that I am having a quiet day. In fact Friday’s should be made quiet by law, employers should ease back, customers shouldn’t email or phone their service providers…. just chill out and leave people be, they are only thinking of the [...]
I have to confess that I am becoming addicted to FriendFeed and I thank Fraser Smith for pointing me in its direction in the first place. Now that my connections are growing, the activity and discussion taking place on there is becoming more engrossing, as members of the technical world take part in what can [...]
Sometimes the internet world is a very fickle place. Take for example the recent problems with Twitter, who as a result of their phenomenal success have started to creak under the strain of the shear volume of traffic they receive every second of each day. Apparently they are finding that “Ruby on Rails”, the system [...]
Last year I penned a post about Red Kites making more of an appearance in the skies of Hampshire and it has attracted regular comments from my readers. I did a little bit of research on Google and found that if you search for “Hampshire Red Kites” my site is listed in 2nd or third [...]