Archive for the ‘ Everything Else ’ Category
I try to keep my life relatively free of complications, but it amazes me how quickly small complications accumulate. I don’t mean the big complex life issues, but the small accumulation of dross; devices, sources of information, people, and ‘stuff’. KISS; Keep It Simple Stupid. There is an old design adage, “good design results from [ READ MORE ]
Over the past couple of weeks my mood has been up and down like a yo-yo. Underlying it, an unidentifiable sense of anticipation. I have no idea where that sense of anticipation might be coming from. Really. None. It’s just there and it’s irritating. It’s like being a kid just before your birthday, knowing your [ READ MORE ]
Ask anyone who knows me and they’ll tell you I love Apple products. I love the fact they just do what I want, when I want. No fuss. No mess. Great. But when it comes to web services Apple really stink! Sure there’s iTunes and the App Store. They work adequately, but they’re really just [ READ MORE ]
An enchanting video of Marco Tempest performing with three iPods[ READ MORE ]
Rarely, but every now and then, the insignificance of the ‘problems’ in my life are thrown into stark relief and I realise that even the worst of my travails are trivial[ READ MORE ]
This article by Farhad Manjoo, in which he suggests Twitter should double its 140 character limit on Tweets, got me thinking. In particular his observation that on Google+ there were more conversations, as a direct result of there being no imposed limit. The problem, as Manjoo observes, with having no limit is that this opens the [ READ MORE ]
Good grief! You know how some things change so gradually that you hardly notice? You know, like a your child growing up. The way people saying, ‘my how he’s grown’ takes you by surprise? You become so familiar with the ever so gradual change that you forget how much the change in the eyes of [ READ MORE ]
I love words. I just wish I had a better memory for them. That said, I am always interested in the precise meaning of words and their etymology and relationship to philology. (Although I freely confess I sometimes misuse words—sorry words, nothing personal—due to my poor memory and occasional lexical indolence.) Anyway, were was I? [ READ MORE ]
Actually I have no idea if the title to this piece is true or not, but it’s an interesting proposition from Matt Cutts I came across on TED. The video’s only about three and a half minutes long and worth watching, the basic idea is to try something you’ve always wanted to do for just 30 [ READ MORE ]
Anyone who used FinalCut Pro 7 will know that Apple recently ‘retired’ it (along with several other applications from the Apple Studio 3 suite). As a casual professional users (I produce video for my own company in very small quantity and do not rely on external post production teams) FinalCut Pro X is fine and [ READ MORE ]
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