‘After a sinister year it’s down to us to protect our freedoms’
… Henry Porter back on form

Well, that didn’t take long

Every Step You Take
… A one hour documentary about video surveillance in Britain.

Photos taken through a microscope

Yep, I’m still not going to the US

2006 Darwin Awards

Microsoft’s evolution in keywords

Here are my first experiments with HDR photography. Ben and I went to Battersea Power Station for an art exhibition. We were far more interested in the building though…

Life inside the BNP

Tesla motors: High performance electric cars

The Hoax that never was: The Qana Ambulance Attack

Kew Bridge Steam Museum new ‘Design for Living’ exhibtion
… They also have a Grand Christmas Steam Up
… “weather permitting, adult visitors will be able to climb our 196 feet tall Standpipe tower”

Decoding RAW digital photos in Linux

Contributors to today’s TCSOTD: Ben

Iraq coalition casualties passes 25,000
… it’s links like that that make me question the wisdom of putting the ‘C’ in TCSOTD

The logic of South West Trains dot matrix displays

Photos of Hail and Lightening

World’s tallest man saves dolphin

Blair questioned by police in Cash for Honours probe
… not under caution though

Coolest psychology experiment… ever?

Potassium: ‘a store that [shows] that good design can be ethical, beautiful, luxurious and ecological’

The curse of Tony Blair

FDA confirms salad evil

Things you can’t do in a London park

If you go shopping in Canary Wharf you’ll find that the corridors are bedecked with Christmas Trees. Some of them have this rather lovely reminder of the fact that our every movement is being monitored. I don’t know about you, but this I find that this really encourages me to enter into the Christmas Spirit.

A good guide to the new PAYG Oyster Card Rules

Alexander Litvinenko dies in hospital

Ban on mp3 transmitters lifted

Cow abductions are on the rise

Pentax releases water proof, dust resistant SLR camera
… oh and it’s rather bling as well

Talking of bling
… Gold USB hub

Dollar loses ground against Euro
… against the Pound too: now at £1.93

This doesn’t need much comment.

At the moment the traffic around Bank and Moorgate is absolutely dire as Cornhill has been closed due to emergency gas works. This was taken before that though it certainly predicted the current chaos well.

British the most spied on in Western World

More on creating HDR images

Family Guy Season 5

Idiot owned

Ha ha ha ha ha ha

Microsoft’s Privacy Guidelines for Developing Software and Services
… in ‘pretty good’ shock

Optimised Firefox 2.0 for Mac OS X

Sony Bravia Paint Advert

Atmospheric Optics

Every now and then I take a photo that I am particularly proud of. This was taken 2005-12-24 whilst on a Christmas walk with my family. It was one of those photos which unexpectedly came out just right.

I can really feel the freshness of the day and the people in the background combined with the stillness of the water seem to add to the whole feel of remoteness.

Oddly enought it was taken near a fairly built up area of London.

A couple of people have said to me that their first impression of the log in the bottom left corner was that it’s a body. It isn’t, but it does prove that the atmosphere of the photo does have an implication of horror.