Bad Advice Part 1: Fitness
In catching up with old friends in Melbourne, I have noticed a curious trend. Ordinarily, when one catches up with old friends after being overseas for an extended period, one is asked mostly about [more...]
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More Camera Gear Talk
Kit for turning a DSLR from a still camera into a video camera Many of the loyal readers of this website are probably wondering where I’m at in my mini-sub-career as a [more...]
Notes on Melbourne
Melbourne Central Shot Tower So I’ve been in Melbourne for nearly three weeks. What do I think? That question sort of carries with it the assumption that I think at [more...]
Preferential Voting Explained
I’m pretty sure that every kid in Australia learns this at some stage of their schooling, or is supposed to. Some may have forgotten, and many didn’t care enough [more...]
Notes on Resolution
Standard anamorphic film with analog soundtracks visible between the image and perforations on the left. The apparent noise you see on the outside of, and in between the [more...]
Realpolitik
Caesar meets his end There is an Australian election coming up on the 21st of August, which is exactly four weeks away. I am considering becoming involved in some way. You [more...]
Drugs in Sport
Take your pick It’s been a while since I’ve penned a controversial post. Experience (and my web stats) have shown me that the most popular posts on this website [more...]
Bootstraps and the Meaning of Money
Of course, physics tells us that we cant pull ourselves up… There’s a peculiar little saying that many of you have probably heard, and that is “to pull [more...]
World Cup Rant
The Infamous Hand of God I’m just going to warn everyone now, this is going to be one of my least-coherent rants to date. It is sometimes said that I have a “soft [more...]
Partij voor de Vrijheid
Dutch election results by municipality Contrary to popular belief, I don’t like to be nasty to people. While it is certainly true that I have a pugnacious side to my [more...]
Obligatory Rant
beyone petroleum… but not bullshit It’s that time of the year again, and I am once again in a reflective mood about the state of the world in which we live. That [more...]
Truth Behind the Shutter: Advanced Topics
Curiously enough, I still get asked a lot about things relating to photography. In the previous two installments of “Truth Behind the Shutter” I went over some of [more...]
Musings on Torrents
File exchange on a distributed network Torrents are wonderful things. For those who are unfamiliar (and it is entirely possible to be unfamiliar yet still be a regular user), [more...]
Three More Stars
Blurring the line between Food and Art Barely twenty days after my sublime experience at the famed Fat Duck restaurant I returned to the rarefied climes of Michelin 3-star [more...]