Bermondsey Street runs south from the always busy1 “More London” riverside but (fortunately!) few tourists seem keen to venture under the imposing railway bridge to visit. Consequently it normally has a quiet village-like atmosphere, there’s even a little park half way down which might be the Village Green.
On a sunny Saturday afternoon it was [...]
While end of year retrospectives may seem like a good way for journalists to fill column inches during a period traditionally bereft of good new source material, I think it is healthy to be reminded of the recent past, to re-evaluate events within a wider context and a little bit of hindsight, and also marvel [...]
The sheer convenience of being able to upload directly from iPhoto means that many of my photographs from 2009 have gone to Picasa web albums instead of this website. However during a recent upload I noticed that during the process the photographs were being overly sharpened which had the effect of creating ugly artefacts on [...]
India Knight wrote in today’s Sunday Times that she could not understand the modern penchant for recording and posting one’s life to YouTube. Tomorrow’s children, she claims, will have an all pervasive collection of images (currently still but increasingly moving à la Harry Potter) of their parents’ lives whereas she has just a single [...]
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It was a lovely sunny day and there were some nice lilies in the flat:
This huge box arrived today from Dabs containing another box maybe a quarter of the size. What a waste.
Lifehacker links to an article entitled, 100 Things to Do During a Money Free Weekend, but it’s really a great list of things to do at the weekend or during holidays at home.
The National Theatre is one of those buildings on the South Bank which was erected in the 1960’s by people who though concrete was an attractive building material. The name also suggests a rather high-brow entertainment-offering, and consequently I have never really paid much attention to it. However I have learned that this ugly building [...]
London is a city of spectacles: the impressive buildings, changing of the guard, Speakers’ Corner and now pancake races!
(Yes, tomorrow is “pancake day”–hope you hadn’t forgotten!)
IIRC, Speights was the one decent local brew in NZ so while shipping an entire pub to London sounds like a mad idea, at least they sent us their best beer.
Hope it travels better than their rugby players…
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A “Kensington Slim Microsaver Cable” is a laptop accessory….
Macworld UK says:
River Thames gets free WiFi: “River Thames to get a free WiFi network, two million go online The river Thames is to get a free WiFi network after two companies, namely free-hotspot.com and MeshHopper partnered up to launch what they claim is Europe’s largest free metropolitian WiFi network.
Despite the liberal use of the [...]
Professor Ross Anderson has called for improved banking regulations in the UK, but I think the really interesting part of the article is the description of how the British government and British banks are working together to reduce protections afforded to bank customers when they are the victim of fraud. Scary stuff.
(Previous to his [...]
2006 was apparently the year of online video. Not content with just blogging written words, or still images, great masses of Internet users everywhere uploaded themselves in full-motion, with sound, to sites like YouTube and Google video.
For those of us who didn’t have time to browse through the thousands of posts on YouTube to find [...]