BumpTop is here at last…

January 26, 2010

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Back in 2007 I was blown away by this video… It’s been a long wait but finally, after nearly three years, it’s here (and it’s free!)… BumpTop Mac: Reinventing your Mac desktop. Enjoy. I’m off to fling folders around…

It’s not the pirates…

January 22, 2010

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Last night’s trip to the local Vue cinema: £10.25 per ticket, which couldn’t be purchased at the ticket office because that was closed, so had to be bought from the concessions stand and therefore involved a lot of angry people missing the start of their movies because they were queuing behind people who were buying tubs [...]

A little tease…

January 15, 2010

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Who doesn’t want to see this?!

Some thoughts for Monday…

January 11, 2010

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These are worth a few minutes of your time...

Words Fail Me…

January 6, 2010

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I haven’t written anything on here for quite a while. I suspect that’s because I’ve been writing so much professionally over the last couple of months that the idea of more words just doesn’t appeal. I have, as mentioned before, taken up photography and have been posting a fair few pics at http://juliansimpson.smugmug.com/. That’s where I [...]

Some HDR pictures…

December 24, 2009

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I’m starting to get the hang of making HDR (High Dynamic Range) pictures. It involves taking the same shot at different exposures and then putting the resulting images together. Here are the results so far… (better resolution versions can be found at http://juliansimpson.smugmug.com/ ) I think I’m preferring pictures to words at the moment. Anyway, Merry [...]

Read this…

December 23, 2009

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A fantastic and frightening behind-the-scenes glimpse at the Copenhagen fiasco: How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room | Mark Lynas | Environment | The Guardian: “” There’s also a very interesting sideways look at the actual science of climate change HERE And, on that cheery note, I’m going Christmas shopping. Have [...]

What have I been doing?

December 20, 2009

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I'm back in the director's chair (on a couple of episodes of New Tricks, one of which I've written) as of January 12th 2010 and I've got a bunch of stuff to write before then. ... To whit, my first attempt at an HDR (high-dynamic range) image... You can see a larger version of this and more of my pics at http://juliansimpson.smugmug.com More later...