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.
KYH: UUPC promo shoot
As I said in my last entry, I shot some promotional photos for the Ubuntu UK Podcast team this weekend, since they were up in Liverpool for OGGCamp 10 and I figured it’d be as good a time as any for me to try my hand at some group shots. The experience taught me several [...]
Shooting for Freedom
See what I did there? OGGCamp 10 is currently on at the Black-E in Liverpool (or if you’re reading this after May 2nd 2010, was on). So I figured I’d take advantage of that and shoot some promotional material for The Ubuntu UK Podcast team, which… well, is quite a story, so I’ll tell it later, because it’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Why I Hate Freedom
Alright, alright, I admit it. I hate Freedom. Stuff your open source philosophies, your Free Software Foundation, your Libre / Gratis. Knackers to the lot of it. I want a Mac. Yes, I do, I want a Mac. I want a shiny, shiny MacBook Pro in all its aluminium unibody glory. I want to fondle [...]
Inline awesome
Originally posted over at the Launchpad blog. For the last million years1 or so I’ve been working on a cool new feature for Launchpad Bugs: an inline, AJAXified, asynchronous dupe finder. For quite some time now people have encountered timeouts or long response times when trying to file bugs, particularly when they enter a long bug [...]
Response from Ben Wallace
You’ll remember that I wrote to my MP, Ben Wallace, a couple of days ago about the Digital Economy Bill. He responded by email today. I’ve not really analysed the message yet; I’ll do that tomorrow. For now, here’s the full text of the response: Dear Mr Binns, Thank you for contacting me about the [...]
Tumblr
I’ve started playing around with Tumblr (you can find my Tumblelog at tumblr.grahambinns.com for the record). I’ve no idea what I’m going to use it for; probably one step above twitter but one step below the blog – so, little snippets of stuff – and also as a sort of quasi-del.icio.us in technicolour with movement, etc. [...]
Digital Economy Bollocks
I just sent the following email to my MP, Ben Wallace: Dear Mr Wallace, I am writing to you to express my grave concern about the DigitalEconomy Bill [1], which was announced during the Queen’s speech and isdue to be proposed to Parliament this week. The bill is purported to “make provision about the online [...]
Random thinkings
In bullet-point form, because I’m not capable of anything else right now. Banshee is being an arse on Karmic on my desktop machine. Can’t figure out why. It freezes up when playing big files (podcasts are particularly affected by this), plays too fast sometimes (so it sounds like I’m fast-forwarding through songs) and other times [...]
On diversity
I agonised a bit before writing this post, partly because it deals with someone who pays my wages, but mostly because I wasn’t entirely sure what ground I stood on, morally and philosophically speaking. I’m going to write it anyway, however, because it’s an interesting enough problem that I think writing it out will help [...]
