Shooting Balloons
The 2012 Bristol International Balloon Fiesta is next weekend, 9th-12th August. I love the Balloon Fiesta. From the 6am mass ascents to the cheesy musical chaos of the Night Glows and the fireworks late at night, it’s a great show. The early morning mass ascents — co-ordinated take-offs of a hundred or more hot air balloons, all drifting […]
Make Life Easier with Photography Support Apps
Last Friday morning, my friend Jess tweeted about the humungous superyacht that’s currently lurking in Bristol Harbour (clearly a James Bond villain is in town.) There was lots of activity in the harbour – tugs moving, the Harbour Master zipping around, that sort of thing. Could it be moving out of the harbour today? If […]
Early Morning Call
This is the first in a series of posts on being productive when working from home. After quitting my job, I studied for a while, then started work on porting Get Running — an iPhone app I’d already been tangentially involved with — to Android. (Don’t get too excited, Android fans; we’re in the “R&D” stage at the moment, […]
Marco, on whether the e‑reader is “doomed” or not
Marco Arment has a good response to Matt Alexander’s suggestion that the e‑reader is already dead. Most telling for me was what I thought Marco was going to say in his last paragraph. I think it could equally well read: ‘I don’t think the e‑reader is “doomed” at all. It may just be relegated to […]
iTunes Match and Podcast Playlists: A Fix!
In my last post, I described the problems I was having syncing manual podcast playlists between iTunes and my iPhone after I upgraded to iTunes Match/iCloud. Well, it looks like I got an early Christmas present from YouOverRotated, who commented: I was in the same exact situation, except mine’s a BMW, not a Mini =). […]
