One Man's Notes

Gardens in the sky

Mar 18, 2012 ⌘

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: