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 [...]
Jan 29, 2010 | Categories:Blog, Photography, Uncategorized | Tags: ariana osborne, identity, me, open source, planet ubuntu uk | 1 Comment »
I figured I’d try to make this photography lark start to pay (or at least try to). First step for the person who wants to make something pay and wants to feel like he’s doing something without actually doing something? Business cards, of course, fresh from Moo (click to embiggen). (They do have a phone [...]
Mar 06, 2009 | Categories:Photography, Uncategorized | Tags: business, me | Leave A Comment »
Five times, now, I’ve tried writing this post. Five times I’ve not been able to complete it, mainly because every single time I did it I found myself hedging around the point because I was too embarrassed to actually write it and put it out there for the consideration of you, the cognoscenti. So this, [...]
Oct 06, 2008 | Categories:Photography, Uncategorized | Tags: advertising, me, portfolio, portraits, the future | Leave A Comment »
Mark Shuttleworth, spaceman, ideas man, Ubuntu founder and fearless leader at Canonical Towers announced yesterday that Launchpad will be open sourced within the next 12 months. This is pretty cool news. With Launchpad, we make a big deal of supporting free and open-source software. Our aim is to provide a central platform through which people [...]
Jul 24, 2008 | Categories:Uncategorized | Tags: canonical, fsf, in the news, jobs, launchpad, mark shuttleworth, me, people, planet ubuntu uk, the future, ubuntu, work | Leave A Comment »
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 174 I was trying to illustrate the duality of personality here, but I don’t think it quite worked. Actually, that’s rubbish. This was accidental, but I thought that it might almost work to illustrate the duality of personality. It’s not subtle enough [...]
Jun 23, 2008 | Categories:Photography, Uncategorized | Tags: autoportrait, blackandwhite, d40x, me, monochrome, selfportrait, shadows, three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, toodark | Leave A Comment »
It won't have escaped your notice that I started to write a comment piece on this news story but my blog client (which I really do need to write something about in the not-too-distant future since it's something that I've written and could possibly turn out to be quite useful to a fairly small subset of the Open Source community) fell over. Before it retired to that great stack trace in the sky, however, it managed to vomit up the beginnings of my post onto the internets (a fact about which I have filed a bug) and as a result managed to make me look like both a bit of an idiot and a bit of a bigot. I'm used to the idiot part. I don't like looking like a bigot.
Anyway, since it had made it onto my blog (and I never bothered to check that it hadn't, it also ended up propagating across the interwubs to LiveJournal, where a good friend of mine commented:
Interesting case. If they were only leafleting, though, I can't see the harm, and even if they were preaching in the street, I think asking them to leave was a bit severe. People can quite easily walk past and seal up their ears (as we do every day to resist free newspapers being thrust into our hands) – and Jehova's Witnesses have been door-knocking for years without being asked to leave certain streets. The "Be a winner, not a sinner" man who yells his (Christian) faith down a megaphone in the middle of Oxford Circus every single day is seen as a local landmark, if a slightly irritating one once he starts going on about how buying stuff on a Sunday is a highway to hell.
I don't believe in thrusting religion down people's necks, but we accept the marketing of coffee, newspapers and shampoo samples readily enough on the basis that people can take it or leave it, so why ban people expounding on their religion in the same way, as long as they're not being aggressive or harrassing people?
On a similar theme, I got handed a flyer today about a man who's riding a horse from Texas to Jerusalem (the tricky bit with the ocean wasn't explained) in the name of Jesus, to spread the Gospel. Fair dos, I thought, before turning my thoughts to how he was going to get the horse across continents.
All of which, plus the fact that it was late and I was tired and lacking in the brain power necessary to sling a sentence together, let alone make a point about religion, left me thinking that I should probably re-write the post, or at least some of the post, and actually make clear my thoughts on the matter, which, exploding blog clients aside, I'd hitherto failed to do.
Jun 08, 2008 | Categories:Uncategorized | Tags: annoyances, atheism, comments, friends, human rights, in the news, me, opinion, posts that started out differently, religion | Leave A Comment »
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 157 A brief idea that popped into my head when I was sorting out a suitcase full of clothes. I could’ve used the guitar as a prop but figured that since I’d done that only a day before I probably shouldn’t do [...]
Jun 06, 2008 | Categories:Photography, Uncategorized | Tags: autoportrait, blackandwhite, dark, hat, me, monochrome, posed, selfportrait, suit, three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, underexposed | Leave A Comment »
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 154 It’s been a while since we had a boring old self-portrait, so here’s a very boring self portrait, taken using the SB-600 and a Lambency diffuser dome / Gary Fong Lightsphere ripoff. (I’m only posting this because it will serve as [...]
Jun 03, 2008 | Categories:Photography, Uncategorized | Tags: autoportrait, d40x, hairy, lambency, lambencydiffuser, me, selfportrait, three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, whitechapel | Leave A Comment »
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 27 I decided, after a day when I found myself stuck in the house pretty much all of the time, and in which I saw my capacity for excursion limited significantly by something important in my car going boing, to play with [...]
Jan 28, 2008 | Categories:Photography, Uncategorized | Tags: autoportrait, blackandwhite, d40x, f14, lowlight, me, monochrome, outdoors, portrait, three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, vanity | Leave A Comment »
It looks like it’s that time again, the time when the British weather starts playing silly buggers. For everyone else in the country that means flooding and being washed out of house and home. For me, it seems, it just means losing intertube connectivity, which I’ll admit is plain annoying, but at least I don’t [...]
Jun 20, 2007 | Categories:Uncategorized | Tags: computing, me | Leave A Comment »
That religion stuff, and what I meant to say about it
It won't have escaped your notice that I started to write a comment piece on this news story but my blog client (which I really do need to write something about in the not-too-distant future since it's something that I've written and could possibly turn out to be quite useful to a fairly small subset of the Open Source community) fell over. Before it retired to that great stack trace in the sky, however, it managed to vomit up the beginnings of my post onto the internets (a fact about which I have filed a bug) and as a result managed to make me look like both a bit of an idiot and a bit of a bigot. I'm used to the idiot part. I don't like looking like a bigot.
Anyway, since it had made it onto my blog (and I never bothered to check that it hadn't, it also ended up propagating across the interwubs to LiveJournal, where a good friend of mine commented:
All of which, plus the fact that it was late and I was tired and lacking in the brain power necessary to sling a sentence together, let alone make a point about religion, left me thinking that I should probably re-write the post, or at least some of the post, and actually make clear my thoughts on the matter, which, exploding blog clients aside, I'd hitherto failed to do.
Jun 08, 2008 | Categories:Uncategorized | Tags: annoyances, atheism, comments, friends, human rights, in the news, me, opinion, posts that started out differently, religion | Leave A Comment »