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Tips for photographing otters

July 31st 2008

Rarely will these tips be of practical to anyone, but you never know… Otters are extreamly quick. You will need the same sort of lenses which are used to capture sports cars, race horses and chavs at Primark sales. Otter smell vile. I have been near dead things that smelled better. Last time I was [...]

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Smokin’ hot food

July 31st 2008

So, today I’ve been smoking hard. Smoking trout, smoking salmon, smoking cheese, smoking garlic, smoking onions, smoking everything under the sun. No ladies and gentlemen, I’ve not completely lost the plot and bought a massive pack of Rizlas, I’m been on one of Smoky Jo‘s food smoking course. It’s a one day course, starting with [...]

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Princess Anne wears a dress twice!

July 22nd 2008

This week the papers (and indeed the venerable Today Programme) have been talkiong about Princess Anne wearing the same dress to two weddings, 27 years apart.  What does it mean?  Is she promoting recycling?  Is it a fashion faux-pas?  Dies it show how in touch with we proles she is and is a nod to [...]

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Free ideas

July 19th 2008

Somebody please make the following: * Fabulous Cooking Blog : a photo blog curated by an aging New York socialit, all photos featuring over made-up hands, far too many wedding rings and mis-matched crockery.  All measurements in the form of “2 martini glasses full of dried olives”, darling. * Interviewing actors – can’t get an [...]

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BMW drivers, get over yourselves

July 16th 2008

Image via Wikipedia Right – straight off the bat, I feel I should say I’m sure this does not apply to all BMW drivers, in fact my friend Adam has a wonderful M3 which he drives with great care, however … BMW drivers – Stop Driving Like Wankers. In the last two week I have [...]

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Google, Youtube, Viacom and the judge

July 3rd 2008

So – in the US a judge (who may or may not be a technically savvy person) has ruled that Google must handover 12 terabytes of information about who has watched what on YouTube to Viacom, who are pissed off that lots of their content is available in crap quality on YouTube. Thankfully the judge [...]

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July 1st 2008

Image by pixelant via Flickr Oh Fail Whale, why do we love you so?  After all, all you say to me is “Twitter is kanckered again – press press F5 a few times, and go away and come back another time”.  I don’t really feel an anamosity towards twitter when it is suffering from tweet [...]

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