Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
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 Apr 12th, 2008
There has been a lot of chatter on the net lately about Gartner saying that Microsoft Windows is collapsing under its own weight. Elsewhere there are claims that this is why it’s desperate to buy Yahoo. Windows and Office are the cash cows and they are looking vulnerable, supposedly.
I suspect that the end is not [...]
Posted in Misc on Apr 7th, 2008
This time next week I will be in Sicily — an MBA trip with a side order of good food and la dolce vita. I might have preferred a non-Italian destination, therefore, for dinner this evening, but only a churl would deny a 17 year old her choice of restaurant on her birthday.
So, we went [...]
Posted in Misc on Mar 24th, 2008
London’s skyline is changing dramatically, but why not connect the London underground to a new building like “The Shard” — perhaps by building beside a disused London underground station?
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