There is a list of accessories that, when used properly, can easily lift your photography to a next level: tripods, flashes, reflectors and so on. Having shot a 24-hours sports event twice and noticing how my wrists would hurt afterwards, I figured a sling strap might also be such an accessory. The regular straps that … Read More
As you may know I regularly visit roller derby bouts to take photos of the action and of the events and the people surrounding that action. I used to post the results to my personal Facebook account but have recently switched to using a separate Facebook page for my photos. If you are in a … Read More
The phrase ‘flying car’ used to be (and perhaps still is) shorthand for ‘the future’. As long as we don’t have the flying car that a nebulous ‘they’ promised us, the future is not now. Never mind that in this day and age even people fleeing a war-torn Syria carry around more computing power then … Read More
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I started another blog. Why, Branko, you say (sarcastically), how nice of you considering the many, many (*cough*) things you post here. You would not be wrong about that. I do blog too little. The new blog, called Beezels, because I needed a name and any silly thing would do, has a single purpose: to … Read More
I’ve started using the Firefox plugin YesScript as an ad blocker even though being an ad blocker may not be that plugin’s main purpose. YesScript will let you mark specific websites. YesScript will then tell the browser that the next time it loads something from those sites, it must skip the JavaScript programs belonging to … Read More
A bunch of years back I wrote that Sourceforge.net was “a very useful website for computer programmers (or developers, as we like to call ourselves), because it provides an aggregation point for people, code and knowledge, and it does so for free.” The reason I blogged about Sourceforge was because the site had started to … Read More
This is rich. A museum in London that was said to become a much needed and desired women’s history museum turned out to be a museum glorifying famed killer of women Jack the Ripper. When confronted with this strange change from celebrating the things women achieved despite adversity to becoming part of that adversity, the … Read More
Last week I bought the new Canon EF-S 24mm F2.8 STM lens from Canon. This is a lens that only works on crop sensor cameras. STM is short for stepper motor and provides a relatively fast and quiet means of focussing. What the name doesn’t convey is that this is also a very flat lens … Read More
British comedian John Oliver is the front man of a popular American rage vlog (and TV show) called Last Week Tonight, in which he tries to work viewers into an angry fit by spinning a mock cathartic narrative around injustices that are both major and very real. The segment of 21 June was titled “Online … Read More