Users of the iPhone 3G who’ve updated to iOS4 haven’t been well impressed overall. In fact, it seems many would would likely take issue with my use of the word “updated”, as everywhere you look online there are complaints of slow-downs and crashes (check especially the comments on that link, for some major unhappiness),...
… or to this blog at least. Bizarrely, the interwebs has put up with me for a year now on this blog, and except for a rather emptyish month a little while back, my readers and views have grown every month. I had a look at the Wikipedia entry for August 21 and a few...
More wonderful Stephen Fry. This half hour video is well worth watching – repeatedly. STEPHEN FRY: WHAT I WISH I’D KNOWN WHEN I WAS 18 from Peter Samuelson on Vimeo.
Just reminded myself of this, which is about the coolest musical thing in the history of cool musical things: Want to Take You Higher, by Sly and the Family Stone at Woodstock. Nuff Said
Tonight there is (was) a partial lunar eclipse. I lugged my Celestron OmniXLT 150mm Newtonia reflector outside, and popped out intermittently with my wife’s camera (Fjuifilm Finepix Z20fd). All my astrophotography (such that it is) is done using an afocal technique – aka: holding the camera up to the eyepiece of the telescope. ...
