A response to Oxford Archaeology
NB This post should never have showed up in the blog feed; I never published it because my comment actually did make it onto the OA blog. A bug made it appear in the feed. Sorry for the confusion.
Slight digression from the usual photography-related content of this blog. Anyone not interested in Launchpad or my work as a developer should look away nowish. We’ll resume our usual programming shortly.
For those interested, please take a look below the fold.
Sunlight, clouds, skipping, oh my
Unless you’ve been living under a rock or haven’t looked at my blog for the last few days, you’ll know that I shot a sports fashion set on Friday for Jenna Wilson, a stylist who found me through ModelMayhem. As shoots go it was pretty good. Everyone was quite relaxed, if a bit cold, and Jenna [...]
Quickly
I did a sports fashion shoot on Friday for a student stylist who found me through Model Mayhem (this social networking palaver pays off, you know). I like the way the shoot turned out; out of 500+ frames I’ve got ~375 picks (useable shots) and out of those I’ve got ~130 selects (frames that I [...]
gphoto2 + F-Spot = win
Whilst I’m waiting for my MacBook to work its way from Shanghai to my house, depending of course on when Iceland stops its geological sneeze or the European aviation authorities decide that the danger has passed, I decided to see if I could find the best solution for tethered shooting under Linux. The advantage to [...]
Yes, yes, okay
So I ordered a MacBook Pro and then Iceland decided to sneeze all over Europe. This is what the UPS tracking system is currently showing my shipment. I assume I’ll receive it some time this side of May…
In which your loathing is cordially told to sod off
You’ll remember, no doubt, that I wrote a while back about having a sudden and hard-to-define hankering for a MacBook Pro. Well, dear reader, my laptop refresh benefit finally arrives this month (Canonical workers are expected to provide their own laptop upon joining the company but the company pays for a new laptop every three [...]
Quit whining
Mur Lafferty said earlier: Quit whining and make something So I did: make custom gifts at Zazzle I did that in about a minute. What could you make with the time you have available?
Ben Wallace Responds
I’ve received a response to my letter about the Digital Economy Bill from my MP, Ben Wallace. Dear Mr Binns, Thank you for contacting me about the Digital Economy Bill. I understand that you are anxious that the Bill is being rushed through Parliament by the Government in advance of the General Election. The Bill [...]
Mumblemumblegrumblemumble
Bloody Northern weather. We’d planned the woodland shoot for today; I’ve found a model with whom I want to work, we’ve agreed TFCD terms and outfits and I know what I want to shoot. And then it tips it down. The forecast for this morning was for lots of rain throughout the day, so we called [...]
Another letter to Ben Wallace
With the spectre of the Digital Economy Bill looming large for everyone, and the BPI and others lobbying to have it passed without proper parliamentary scrutiny, I decided it was time to write, once again, to my MP, Ben Wallace. Dear Mr Wallace, I’m writing to you, once again, to express my deep reservations about [...]
Simple
I want to explore “simple” in photographic terms. I spend so long thinking of interesting, intricate ideas – how to light this, where to stage that, what outfit the subject needs to wear – and I’m starting to forget the basic reason why I love doing what I do; capturing moments, feelings, glimpses of the [...]
Hah
Dear all… Kindly disregard my last post. It shouldn’t have appeared in the feeds. Besides, < 1000ms is not exactly bad for a webapp on a small-assed virtual server. It’s the static files (CSS and JS) that are killing load times.
KYH: Woodland shoot
Howdy, campers. This is the first post in a series that I’m going to tag “Keep Yourself Honest” or KYH for brevity (it’s in the same family as GYOA – “Get Off Your Arse,” made popular by Zack Arias and others). The point of these posts is to give myself some targets to meet, in [...]
A thank you
Jono William Aloycius O’Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager and general all-round grand bloke today announced the Ubuntu rebranding. I’ve known about this for a while, because the Canonical brand is being refreshed too and we as a company were shown the new designs and asked for comments a few weeks back. However, this is a chance [...]
Welcome to my humble abode
Hello. If you’ve been here before you’ll have noticed that I’ve changed things a bit; moved the furniture around, repainted the skirting boards, stripped the old wallpaper and removed the artex from the ceiling. Hope you like it. I’ve gone for a much simpler, more stripped-back look-and-feel this time around. I’m not interested in having [...]
One of life’s little disappointments
If you read my identi.ca or Twitter feeds (and well you should) you might have noticed this little piece of ridiculous self-pity last night: Well, that’s one project that is now effectively dead and buried. Expect blog entry about it soonish but pretty disappointed right now. Quite aside from being made up entirely of whinge [...]
In which I turn 29
Today is the 29th anniversary of my birth. I can provide Paypal account details if you want to send me money. Anyway, I appear to have caused some confusion by stating on twitter that I have now started my 30th year, and that my 29th year has ended, so I feel I should explain. Here [...]
Wailly wailly
Well, it looks like I jumped the gun with my last post. Turns out that the shiny media features that WordPress 2.9 has, and which I got so glum about not having in Frabjous have actually been in Frabjous for about a year. And I wrote them. Yes, I fail. True, they’re a bit more [...]
Migrating to WordPress
Looks that way, anyway. It just happens to need to do what I need and I don’t have the time to hack those features into Frabjous, since they’re major work. Yes, I hate myself. Yes, running PHP on my server is like allowing a busload of hackers into the Bytemark datacentre (with apologies to Chris [...]
Brain porridge
So, first off, brain is better than it was early Friday morning, though I still have a head full of snot, so everything smells of the kind of old, forgotten dustiness you find in attics. More brain-dumpery, I’m afraid, since I can’t be bothered to make this into anything coherent. Alan Bell replied to my [...]
fnarg
Feel ratty beyond belief right now: really cruddy front-brain headache, eyes stinging, that kind of thing. And this is just a cold; annoying as hell and it makes it hard to think. This may be brain-dumpy in the extreme. But thinking I am, a bit, about what to do with grahambinns.com. It doesn’t serve its [...]
Brief request
I’ve got a post that I need to write, but it feels like a post that would write itself if I were halfway through my second large whisky at the time, so I need to either employ the whisky or work out how to get into a similarly verbose frame of mind before I write [...]
The oncoming arbitrarily-measured period of time
I was planning to write this later on, after the ’09-’10 changeover, but the Monkey Shoulder that I’ve drunk is slowly making things go a bit fuzzy around the edges, so I’m writing it now before I lose the ability to type coherently. Tom Jones and Paloma Faith are on Jools’s Hootenanny… Tom Jones looks [...]
That there decade thing
Hullo, hullo. Been a wee while since a wrote something here for reasons that will become blindingly obvious very shortly… And I seem to have stirred up some interesting responses to my Mac-lust post (the most interesting of which came from Chris Jones via identica, where he pointed out that *buntu might be a bit [...]
