by Tom | Feb 24, 2009 | Personal
FYI if you need to give people international payment details, you can find the IBAN and Branch Identifiers by going to print a statement from the First Direct online system (you don’t need to actually print the statement).
by Tom | Feb 19, 2009 | IT
If MusicBrainz Picard doesn’t do it for you, try MP3tag and its freedb.org option. Neat.
by Tom | Feb 16, 2009 | Reading
Loads of good stuff in there: lovely shot of a woman golfing in La Paz, La Princesse in Liverpool, the bushfires in Australia (how did those cattle survive?), China’s lantern festival and the destruction of the Mandarin Oriental, and a Tibetan prayer...
by Tom | Feb 4, 2009 | Uncategorized
The Tough Guy challenge looks as unpleasant as ever. Kudos to the man in a mankini – some of the rope challenges will have been very unpleasant for him. Separately, there are some great shots of tough guys carrying out low-tech mining and oil extraction and...
by Tom | Jan 29, 2009 | Reading
Lots of excellent new photos of London from above. Number 8 helped me understand what the Regent Street Christmas lights were about. Can the planners have anticipated this shot?
by Tom | Jan 28, 2009 | Reading
The Next Time Someone Tells You That Taxes Are Not Progressive
by Tom | Jan 27, 2009 | Reading
Chinese New Year – Welcoming the Ox. More Big Picture extracts. Good to see the Chinese ability to put on a large event isn’t limited to the Olympics, that Liverpool has a thriving China Town and that eclipses are just astonishing.Eclipse in the...
by Tom | Jan 26, 2009 | IT
.ape and .cue. The xAct route worked perfectly in getting a CD image (ape) back to individual files as described in the cue file.
by Tom | Jan 26, 2009 | Science
Bad Science looks at the blue bonday myth and debunks it. Jonza noticed this too. So there is no blue monday. Get over it kids.
by Tom | Jan 26, 2009 | Reading
Just retire and make a cup of tea. Should most homes have one of these?
