21 Dec 2007

New Article: Christmas Nuts

I have a new article up on the Null Hypothesis website. It’s called Christmas Nuts, and it’s a careful, indepth analysis of psychiatric problems at Christmas. Not.

5 Dec 2007

Screencast: Creating an iTunes Music Visualizer in Quartz Composer

I’ve put together a basic screencast tutorial which introduces you to Apple’s Quartz Composer, the graphical programming environment which ships with OS X. Quartz Composer is a graphics generator, capable of drawing 3D graphics, animations, and all sorts of Good Stuff. And you make it work just by dragging little boxes about and connecting them […]

2 Dec 2007

Please describe any steps needed to trigger the problem…

Sometimes, I really wish I was an Apple devleoper. Not because I’d like to work in the funky headquarters at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, although I imagine it’s quite fun. I don’t even want to score myself a free iPhone — well, not until they come with 3G, anyway. No, I want to read their error reports. […]

29 Nov 2007

Another two photos used

Two more of my Creative Commons-licensed photos got used this week, for very different purposes. First off, one of my photos of St. Mary Redcliffe is going to be used in the next issue of the journal of the Society for Church Archaeology. And today’s entry on the oil pipeline explosion in Minnesota in Steve […]

25 Nov 2007

New Look

I’ve spent a fair chunk of this week learning about CSS and WordPress, because I figured both of those could come in handy, so here’s the new site design for your delectation. It’s almost entirely aesthetic update. The banner heading is from one of my own photographs, taken at Bristol Uni’s Botanic Garden earlier on […]