Any writing is better than no writing, so here are some things I’ve been thinking about and doing lately: I have a new camera – a simple Canon Ixus 100 to replace my old point and shoot which got dust in the lens. It has HDMI out for the 720p video it takes, face tracking, auto scene selection (such that if I point it at something close it switches into macro mode automatically), and is ...

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I am very much looking forward to the coming increase in quality and drop in price of digital photo frames. We currently have five photo frames in our living room (three are curved, four are glass-edged). I wouldn’t mind swapping them out for digital frames provided there were a few criteria: • they have to be no thicker than our existing frames • they can’t be plugged into the ma...

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summerburn 2006 cover © chthonic / CC Yikes, time for

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Trying to render this post on the Surfin’ Safari blog. *sigh* Posted from

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I’m still on honeymoon in Norway (and very nice it is too – the wife, as well as Norway ;), at a quick terminal to see if I can collect some advice. Shortly before we left, I bought a new 1GB memory stick pro card for my ailing Sony DSC-P72 (I think that’s the model off the top of my head) – it’s just lost 112 photos from the middle of my honeymoon, and I want them back. When inse...

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Sometimes it’s just better to blog something then to spend time actually thinking about it. A week ago I saw this photo in John Ressig’s photostream and asked him to post a larger screenshot,

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If you’ve not used Flickr yet, do. It’s brilliant. When I first signed up I didn’t really like the emphasis on the social aspect of it, I would have preferred to be slightly more like del.icio.us, where the social aspect is emergent rather than integral, just putting my photos up for my own reference and ease of in...

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This has been in my flickr favourites for ages, but I didn’t realise that it was designed by Steven Garrity of actsofvolition.com/. cool. Posted...

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There’s just something about this that really appeals to me. Posted from .

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I’m not entirely sure what was at the end of the lane this pointed down, and I think the mystery was better left unsolved. Posted from .

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