Emmingott Guy spends 1/5th of his 6 figure salary outsourcing his job to China and it doesn’t get noticed for years. Amazing securityblog.verizonbusiness.com/2013/01/14/cas…
iTunes 11 in full-screen mode is really annoying to use. All the buttons I want to click in a row are at extreme opposite corners/edges.
@clareellent PS: Utopia, 10pm, Channel 4.
WelshDalaiLama It gets worse. The French just found out that traces of Tesco value burgers have been found in their horse meat.
weirdoldhattie BBC News - Horsemeat found in beef burgers on sale in UK and Ireland bbc.in/VIfQOL
@claireellent Excellent! *switches light on and off repeatedly, disco-stylee*
@hayles @guriben S’alright. Big plastic thing with a couple of bastard bright fluorescents in, basically.
@claireellent Ta! Guess what I bought this morning. *bathes in strong white light*
@hayles @guriben 10,000 lux, even. This is what I got today: maplin.co.uk/sad-light-box-… and there were a stack of them left in Gloucester Road.
@MatStace Heh. That’s more than ten times my monthly download limit. And I’ve only hit that twice.
@hayles @guriben (Make sure you get one that provides 10,000 lumens. That seems like the standard for decent results.)
@hayles @guriben This one from Maplin was on special, so I don’t feel too bad that I’ve already bought it :) Wasn’t £40 though.
@hayles You know what I’m doing right now? Moaning on LJ about the youths of Twitter. :D
Hurrah! Fixed a bug in Get Running for Android. New version should be on the Play store in a few hours.
@hayles Surely that’s what Livejournal was designed for?
I’d also try it as a hair light, if I had hair.
In other news, this new SAD lamp could come in handy as studio lighting for product shots…
Don’t mess with me today. I have a headache. And new clamps. instagr.am/p/Ug04wJJC82/
@FussFreeHelen @Kavey Yup, turned it off now. I’ll be trying to use it in the first hour at my desk in the mornings… Ta!
@FussFreeHelen @Kavey This is my setup. pic.twitter.com/78JawqQa
@FussFreeHelen @Kavey Well, I’m sitting in front of my shiny* new SAD lamp, so we’ll see how it goes…
*It’s not often this is o literal.
@libbymiller @guriben @danbri Hah! Thanks :)
@guriben I’m not convinced I’ve got the hang of this. I’ll write you a whimsical indie number about it, though.
@guriben See the rapper MG/All up in my window/Defending my lamp/Against some Guriben ho. Get out of my light, motherfo.
Teensy bit bright then, these SAD lamps… instagr.am/p/UgoVWcpC0h/
@guriben I am now giggling at my desk, visible to all for miles through now-ineffective voiles in the glare that is my shiny new SAD lamp.
@guriben That’s the first line of a whimsical rap number if ever I heard it.
@guriben They’d been suspended by twitter before I could even hit the “block” button…
rtenews A woman has stolen an empty commuter train from a depot and drove it into an apartment building in Stockholm bit.ly/XALzQp
@johnfbraun Same here, with this one. Guess Twitter is just about keeping up in the arms race.
Wow. I bet *they’re* a real human being. pic.twitter.com/DncarNLp
@rabidbee @DrHairbear That’s probably because some fool is telling them that they need a spare body. :D
@rabidbee @DrHairbear I’d rather sell the 400D and the lenses I don’t use, put the money towards a 70-200L, and worry about weddings later.
@Bristol52 But it was open a week or so ago when I walked past.
@Bristol52 It’s always been rather random in its opening. Like that random brasserie along the way that’s in a prime spot but never open.
@rabidbee @DrHairbear Also: please do so. The more people buy the mk3, the more affordable the mk2 will be, secondhand…
@rabidbee @DrHairbear If I did a wedding again, I’d take along a whole spare photographer, not just a body.
@Indiechops Still never been to @flintyred…
@guriben Yup. They have myrrh resin!
OpinionatedGeek ‘Excuse me sir, is that an unsupervised orange on your desk?’ nuclearsecrecy.com/blog/2012/08/2…
I can highly recommend the brie, bacon and cranberry panini at Rubicon Too on Cotham Hill. But not if you’re on a diet.
@DrHairbear @rabidbee That’s exactly what I did last time. The 400D still needs cleaning. Or, in fact, selling…
@Lillput @rabidbee @DrHairbear Maybe I didn’t sound like a great baker on the phone.
@guriben “Do you have any myrrh resin? I’m asking for a friend.” was not high on my list of expected sentences today… I’ll try.
Trying a new lunch place. @ Rubicon Too instagr.am/p/UgY_h2JC5W/
@rabidbee @DrHairbear If he was just round the corner from anywhere I normally am, I’d probably try him. Calumet v. non-grumpy, though!
@rabidbee @DrHairbear …last time I was looking, for some reason. Can’t recall why, though. Something said on Bristol Flickr discussion?
@rabidbee @DrHairbear Calumet. Was passing them anyway, today and tomorrow. Vague memory of BW being knocked off my list of possibles…
@DrHairbear Thirty quid + VAT, normally next day. Only danger is risk of BUYING ALL THE THINGS when in there.
@ChristinaMcMc Hurrah!
@simondebrux Just discovering that you actually need eight pounds to park in Bath was enough to do it for me the last time…
@currybet Maybe they’re hoping an assassin at the next table will offer to undercut their current deal?
(The temptation to add false ones into that list must have been strong. “485: Trying to open heat-sealed plastic product packaging.”)
cameronMstewart A great, complete list of everything that provoked David Banner to turn into the Hulk in the old TV show: kennethjohnson.us/HulkOutList.ht…
Right. I came here and sat down to do my Morning Pages about an hour ago. Think I should turn the internet off and get started with them!
@xabl I think I used to not notice as much as I was generally shooting wider apertures, so the dust spots weren’t so obvious.
@xabl Heh. When I got to that stage last time I bought a new camera. Reminds me, should probably get the 400D cleaned at the same time…
@guriben …and from what I can see, seems to be decent amount of peer-reviewed studies & metastudies to support it.
@guriben Incidentally, had a few “yes, I use it and it seems to help to some degree” SAD responses, no negative responses.
@stillawake Probably more likely to affect people who change lenses a lot, especially in dusty environments.
@stillawake I’m guessing people usually hear about it first when crap starts appearing in their pictures!
Dear Facebook advertiser: Thanks, but I have no wish to look like The Hulk, even if it would win me a mini-me boyfriend pic.twitter.com/nQhEKAdu
@archidave I think it’s only since I started using a tripod & shooting at smaller apertures that I’ve started to notice minor crud more.
@marklovell Given how rarely I have it done, might as well pay someone who knows what they’re doing! Taking it to Calumet.
Taking my camera in for a sensor clean today. This is the first time I’ve ever bothered. How often do you get it done, DSLR users?
@hayles I’m going to be 40 on Monday. Hush, child.
(Hey, cool, the original’s still there: twitpic.com/135xa )
Four years on to the day, and I’m still yet to see a more astounding picture posted to Twitter. telegraph.co.uk/technology/twi… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airway…