On the third day of my holiday last year, the weather took a turn for the worse and my chosen...
eBay + PayPal: Considered Harmful
I forget exactly when I made my first purchase from eBay, but given how my PayPal account was registered in...
Olympus Pen-F: analysis and hands-on
[caption id="attachment_2411" align="alignright" width="480"] Mine, my only, my preciousss![/caption] There's only one camera shop left in Perth and yesterday I...
Now with added solar panels
The first thing I did on buying a new house in November was to have solar panels installed. Like, within...
What I did on my holidays
To celebrate my increasing antiquity at the end of August, I spent a happy few days in the Lake District...
Too-Big Data? That don’t impress me much
On a whim, I spent the evening in Edinburgh at a meetup presentation/meeting concerning Big Data, the talk given by...
Discovering SmartOS
[caption id="attachment_1939" align="aligncenter" width="632"] What 22TB looks like.[/caption] It has been a long and interesting weekend of fixing computers. Adopt...
RIP, Sir Terry Pratchett
I loved many of his Discworld series, of course, for many years - a very favourite author of one's -...
How I Voted…
Happily. It's the orthogonal thoughts that caught my eye, so to speak. The trees still stand. I mean, the town...
How I’ll be Voting
Individually. I hold the idea of nationality very loosely: it sometimes applies but does not define. I rate people trying to live their lives...
Landscape: the approachable end of Photography
Cogitations and ponderings about the nature of landscape photography