Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on May 28th, 2008
London is now said to be a very wired place where the broadband future can be glimpsed. Somehow, I feel it hasn’t quite arrived yet.
Yes, we use the BBC’s iPlayer to watch programs we’ve missed, but not very often. It could work. I pay only £18 a month for a 24Mb broadband link, so bandwidth [...]
Posted in Misc on May 25th, 2008
AA Gill has a fine piece about St.Paul’s Cathedral in the latest Sunday Times. In a city with many iconic buildings, it is the most iconic of all — hence its prominence in the photograph at the head of this blog. I confess I have yet to visit it. It’s one of those things that’s [...]
Posted in Misc on May 16th, 2008
I’ve only recently learned of high dynamic range photography.
Now there’s a new prospect: one’s own robot digital arm to take a lot of photographs and stitch them together into a very detailed tableau.
Read about it here: Boffins take gigapixel photos. The London landscape shown is familiar and the demonstration is interesting, but, it doesn’t work [...]
Posted in Misc on May 13th, 2008
I had forgotten that intense feeling of freedom that the last exam for the summer brings. I had an exam on Monday night and today I surfaced after my first decent sleep in… I can’t remember since when, and read my first newspaper in a couple of weeks.
It was as if I had regained a [...]
Posted in Misc on May 1st, 2008
Clay Shirky is someone whose writing I’ve enjoyed but I hadn’t heard him speak until today when I came across this video of him speaking at Harvard about his new book, Here Comes Everybody (reviewed here). It’s worth a look. I’ll be back to see some of his other videos and I will look out [...]
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Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
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