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One year in 40 seconds
eirikso.com » One year worth of images give some amazing videosErik Solheim has produced a beautiful video of a year in the life of his balcony view.
Tilt-shift video = Awesome
TechEBlog » Incredible Tilt-Shift Video Shows a Day at the Beach in Time Lapse I especially like the Tibetan monks having their photo taken.
Daily Rant: Part Two
Age ratings for websites being discussed | News | TechRadar UK “The Cabinet minister describes the internet as “quite a dangerous
place” and says he wants internet-service providers (ISPs) to offer parents “child-safe” web services.” (Interview with Daily Telegraph) UK Culture Secretary Andy Burnham has stated that the government is considering applying film-style ratings to websites…Good [...]
Daily Rant: Part One
Don’t believe the spin about speed limiters | News | TechRadar UKFirst rant of the day; the proposal to fit devices to cars that will limit speeds…As TechRadar point out, the figures used have been ludicrously spun on the hot cycle and don’t even match up with the report!“At the end of the day, if [...]
Wine Tasting
After realising I have built up rather a large collection of wine, as dealt with here, I decided to host a rather informal wine-tasting evening in the flat on Saturday 13th December. Despite being the day after the rather late-night departmental Christmas party, people were feeling pretty chirpy and in the mood to sample the [...]
Amazon this Christmas
Amazon shipped 6.3 million items over Christmas and was selling 72.9 items per second at peak times…that’s insane. It reminded me to dig out links to some of the Amazon warehouse photos to show the scale of the centres…
January Sales in London
January sales in London 2009 - Time Out magazine lists all the January sales in London for 2009…personally I’m sticking to internet shopping to avoid the utter chaos of sales shopping!
New 50mm lens
Inspired by various posts on the interweb about 50mm lenses (including this one), my parents (with some helpful suggestions) bought me a Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II lens to use with my Canon 450D body. I haven’t experimented too much with it yet but two things have struck me about having such a fast lens [...]
Onions
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Get Shorty
Shorty “is a simple tool for creating shorter, human- readable links from long URLs. You install Shorty on your server, so the links you create with it never go away.” I like the sound of this service, I’m a big user of TinyUrl.com when sending links to family & friends…their Amazon example is spot on!
