Facebook apps on the iPad have caused me much pain in the couple of months since I got my iPad. – Because generally, they suck. In one way or another every one of them is lacking, and while most of them have a strength or three, they appear to randomly just stop working (which...
You might have noticed lately that I’ve been largely absent – from my own blog. I’ve also been mostly absent from my Posterous; been much less frequently Tumblring; been posting my Blips and running, not doing much looking around or commenting … I’ve even been checking Facebook (by the way I’ve finally found an...
I was struck today, when considering my daily photograph, by how much it is possible to do after clicking the shutter. Of course the better the actual in-camera image, the better the end result – but there is a lot that can be done. Consider the photo that I took: The sun was too bright and...
The news recently has been fired up by footage of appalling brutality in a slaughterhouse in Indonesia. As a result the Australian government has suspended live export to those abattoirs. What doesn’t appear to have been said anywhere near as prominently or loudly is that Halal slaughter is fundamentally sick and messed up. First let...
I have a few things to blog about, but will do my best to pace myself. Today I’ll have a whinge about a “study” (scare quotes intentional) from La Trobe University in Melbourne that purports to show that a high intake of coffee increases a person’s propensity to experience hallucinations. This has of course...
At dusk flocks of rainbow lorikeets whirl around and hang out in the trees I pass en route to the train station. This is a poor photo, due to the low light, and consequent slow shutter speed (even with a high ISO) I spent as long as I could just looking at them before I...
