Matt Gibson (@gothick)

Hotwells, Bristol

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April 2008

@chrismarquardt I wish my phone would make OSX panic, just so I could look at the beautiful screen. Maybe I should stop using Bluetooth…

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Currently (and rather randomly) helping a Swedish graphic designer to create an iTunes music visualiser…

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Mozy.com had me mail them plain text logs as they didn’t recognise tarred and gzipped files. Scary being more techy than my tech support

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@davidpatrick Heh. I could’ve been more precise with their name, but it was a bit difficult to make the lead singer out at the time :)

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Doing my weekly review; unusually it’s only been a week since the last one…

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Venue: dark and smoky. Cowboy hats: many. Now we just need Alabama 3 to take the stage…

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Note to self: Radio Freedom are really good

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@floyduk Lucky man! I love Portmeirion. Good photo opportunities just outside village by the Pagoda, IIRC. Give Rover a biscuit for me!

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Damn. Garden centre too full for either eating or buying plants. Heading for a park instead.

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Oooh, beautiful day. Think I might go buy some plants for the garden. Mostly just so I can have lunch at the garden centre’s cafe, mind…

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Things I have learned today: Wearing two right contact lenses, rather than a left and a right, is not optimal.

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Also, wearing the right contact lens the wrong way up doesn’t help when it comes to diagnosing the first problem.

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@bexxi I also got a haircut and had lunch outside, and am having coffee in the sun. Maybe I should buy a phone, too…

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@jacintuk No, I mean the “inside out” kind of wrong way up, not the “rotated” kind of “wrong way up”…

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I wonder how long it’ll be before the firewall at work blocks Flickr because it’s now a “streaming video” site?

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@chrismarquardt Right down to the punctuation! I’m impressed…

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@floyduk ): dneirf ruoy si “ver” xinU ?cam a no uoy t’nerA

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Time-limited BBC offer: download the two Harry Cory Wright “iconic” photos of Norfolk and Bristol as 21Mb TIFFs. http://tinyurl.com/64ecmm

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@floyduk .hguoht ,noitisopmoc fo yaw eht ni hcum ees I yas t’nac I .lotsirB morf er’uoyfi spleh ti ebyaM .mmmH

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Ugh. Definitely coming down with something.

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Experimenting with RSS. Have just created test feed of Merlin’s Mannerisms for 2008 :) http://feeds.feedburner….

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Gah! Finally getting around to my first “weekly review” for three weeks.

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Damn, but I need to calibrate these monitors. Anyone know of a good cheap calibrator?

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Various links from random GTG discussions: http://linkbun.ch/9wp (includes Global Kryner, Neil Gaiman, Zen TV and the Long Now Foundation

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Now might be the time for Digital Photography School’s 13 Fabulous Photos of a Rainy Day http://tinyurl.com/2l7wr6

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Mac Keyboard Tip: (attn, @chrismarquardt!) Command-Option-Space: Bring up a new Finder window with focus pre-set to its Spotlight search bar

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BBC story: “Innocent Photographer or Terrorist?” http://tinyurl.com/56r4wm

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Gah! Why is every train journey in this bloody country a much-delayed nightmare?

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Loving the new Indelicates album and the morning sunshine

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@chrismarquardt Neil Gaiman’s A Study In Emerald is free for mp3 download here: http://tinyurl.com/yuhgor

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Just unplugged my TV and turned it to face the wall. Thus begins my experment to see if I can cope with the withdrawal symptoms

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At harbour taking pictures of water skier. How does shutter priority work again? :-)

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@floyduk would love invite, please! Just trying to figure out what to buy to go with new 400D right now :)

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Oh, that’s why the exposure bracketing wasn’t working. It’s because what I’d actually turned on was the white-balance bracketing…

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I wonder how long this rebate form will take to get to Canon Europe? I’m given to understand that it’s a long way to Tipperary…

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