Posted in Photography on August 31st, 2004 No Comments »
For those frustrated Boing Boingers who want to know what the skeleton of a tortoise looks like, after having their interest raised by piece of a Tortoise anatomical model that was on eBay, and finding the auction finished and the photo’s removed. Here’s a photo (hosted by Buzznet) of half a tortoise that I shot […]
Posted in Photography on August 24th, 2004 No Comments »
It’s a great shame to see that the well know and trusted UK analog photography supplies company, Ilford has gone into adminitration. Particularly well know for their black & white products, I would have thought that this niche would have been one of the only survivable sectors post-digital.
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Posted in Unexpected on August 22nd, 2004 No Comments »
I’ve just heard on BBC Radio that a version of Edvard Munch’s world famous painting, “The Scream”, has been stolen by an armed robbers from the Munch Gallery in Norway at about 10:00 today. It’s news to me, but I now understand that Munch painted a number of versions of The Scream and this isn’t […]
Posted in Digital-lifestyle on August 20th, 2004 No Comments »
I’m having to gather a number of people together in a number of conference calls over the next few weeks, so have been looking around for easy to use solutions that are reasonably priced.
I came across Voicemeeting which appear to hit the criteria. There’s a simple Web interface to set up the calls which […]
Posted in Software on August 20th, 2004 No Comments »
Tom Edwards, head of Microsoft’s geopolitical strategy unit, presented at the International Geographical Union congress in Glasgow. He detailed a number of blunders that the company had made, which given its size and distribution of products is pretty inevitable.A Spanish language version of Windows XP, destined for Latin American markets, gave users an option to […]
Posted in Unexpected on August 16th, 2004 4 Comments »
The Chief Executive of the UK Post Office, David Mills, was on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 this morning. He was being interviewed about the re-launch of the Saving stamps service, which was last seen in 1976. Members of the public are able to deposit money with the Post Office, if they still […]
Posted in Unexpected on August 6th, 2004 No Comments »
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we”.Bush said on Thursday to the senior members of the Pentagon.
Reuters - Bush bitten by own soundbite
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Posted in Unexpected on August 5th, 2004 7 Comments »
Back in 1996, we moved our Web business into offices with David Bosdet at Rivington Street, Old Street. The area has changed hugely in the years between, but back then it was reasonably edgy.
After a couple of months a design company called microdot moved in to the ground floor. Chatting to Brian, who ran […]
Posted in Liberty on August 3rd, 2004 No Comments »
I was pleased to see that Creative Commons licences are spreading. Brad Neuberg found a huge and impressive mural in San Franscico that has a CC license on it.
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