One Man's Notes

Mar 23, 2012 ⌘

Mar 23, 2012 ⌘

Yum… #Hipstamatic #HelgaViking #Inas1935

Mar 23, 2012 ⌘

Market day in #cirencester #Hipstamatic #HelgaViking #Inas1935

Mar 23, 2012 ⌘

Travellers #Hipstamatic #RobotoGlitter #Pistil

Simming the City

Mar 22, 2012 ⌘

Oh, I lost way too much time to this back in the early 90s. The new version looks scarily compelling:

[youtube [www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS0qURl_JJY])

Bad news on the Blood & Chrome front

Mar 22, 2012 ⌘

Now, the network has passed on the project as a regular series but is looking to do it as a digital one, while airing the already produced pilot on the network as a movie. “Though the vision for “Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome” has evolved over the course of the past year, our enthusiasm for this ambitious project has not waned,” Stern said in a statement today. “We are actively pursuing it as was originally intended: a groundbreaking digital series that will launch to audiences beyond the scope of a television screen. The 90-minute pilot movie will air on Syfy in its entirety at a future date.”

via www.deadline.com

It appears the "trailer" from yesterday was actually just an internal demo reel. There's a little hope in the article for BSG fans, but not much.

Starbucks wants Nespresso's business…

Mar 22, 2012 ⌘

But the star of the meeting was the Verismo machine, which was put on display for the first time since its introduction at the beginning of this month. Mr Schultz did not hide his ambition to eat into the $3.8 billion of Nespresso sales last year by delivering the full “Starbucks espresso experience” in the home. It will initially be on sale in America, but a spokesman confirmed that the UK would be among the first overseas markets to get the machines.

via www.thetimes.co.uk [£]

NIce to see more people fighting for the upscale home coffee market. Pity their devices don't let you choose your coffee supplier, though. That's why I won't be buying either.

Mar 22, 2012 ⌘

Pity - I was looking for a large…

Full of Blood and Chrome, signifying…?

Mar 21, 2012 ⌘

[youtube www.youtube.com/watch

via www.majordojo.com

Really looking forward to this - and hoping it doesn't disappoint. I loved the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, and even enjoyed the slow, thoughtful and (inevitably) cancelled Caprica.

Fingers crossed…

Mar 20, 2012 ⌘

Gardens in the sky

Mar 18, 2012 ⌘

via remodelista.com

Back in my Estates Gazette days, I used to write about green roofs a fair amount. I still find then unutterably inspiring, a hidden pocket of natural loveliness embedded into an urban landscape.

If only more city dwellers valued these things, maybe I wouldn't have been so keen to leave London.

Mar 18, 2012 ⌘

Morning paper

I was born under a wandering' mind

Mar 17, 2012 ⌘

A study has found that people who appear to be constantly distracted have more “working memory”, giving them the ability to hold a lot of information in their heads and manipulate it mentally.

via www.telegraph.co.uk

I'm not distracted, I'm making connections… ;-)

Aperture hates Flip

Mar 17, 2012 ⌘

This window popped up when I installed the latest update to Aperture 3:

Destroy all 3ivx codecs

And sure enought, the linked support document tells you to purge that 3ivx codec from your system. Where did it come from? FlipShare.

And so the component is gone, and Aperture is noticably more responsive. And the legacy of that lovely little Flip cam fades a little more into the past…

Mar 16, 2012 ⌘

My morning office, after #likemindbrighton

Mar 13, 2012 ⌘

Three images of Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Mar 12, 2012 ⌘

I've been playing catch-up with some un-processed photos in Aperture. These three are from our holiday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in late 2010/early 2011: