I’ve written and complained on a few occasions about the fact that my camera, a Canon EOS 20D, has had focusing problems. This was initially apparent with the Canon EF-S 17 – 85mm lens that I bought with the camera, but, became a whole lot more apparent when I purchased a Canon EF 70 – [...]
Browsing Posts published in June, 2006
I have just discovered (actually, I’ve discovered previously as well, but only writing it now) that being paged at 8:15 on a Saturday, is pretty much the worst time for a pager to go off. I obviously got paged at 8:15 this morning, and, by the time you wake up, investigate the problem, and get [...]
It would appear that the popularity of You Tube is growing and growing. Every day now, I appear to be sent 4 or 5 different links to videos up there. Very seldom do I get around to watching them, but, this one is a good one, and I’m glad that I did!
Apple Computers have just released a comprehensive tutorial of their amazing digital photography workflow suite, Aperture. It’s available in the Apple Pro Section and should go some way to simplifying what is a complex, but amazing beast of an application.
After years of buying stuff from all over the world, including many high value goods that I was able to make a huge saving on, I today got stung by customs for the first time, on a relatively low value purchase. I bought myself a new pair of Rollerblades from the US last week, and [...]
Got this one in an email today. No doubt Kit will be impressed if she’s taking a look over here…
When you wake up in Ireland and are suprised and disappointed to see rain outside! After almost three weeks of unbroken sunshine, normal service has been resumed, and it’s grey and wet outside here in Dublin. It’s amazing how quickly we can adapt and get used to constant sunshine, even though there were quite a [...]
Here’s an interesting one for you. Karlin writes in today’s Irish Times (article available here courtesy of Eircom.net) about the fact that given Vodafone have just introduced a service to watch television on your mobile phones, you may well need to have a TV licence for your mobile!! The article makes a very good read, [...]
Right, I said I’d guage things and decide whether or not to add the facility for people to make donations to me via this website. I’ve decided that I am going to, so, please, please give as generously as you can. The target for me is to raise EUR 4,000 by the end of August, [...]
So, today it finally kicked home, in 156 days, I will be boarding a plane to head to South Africa for the Niall Mellon Irish Township Challenge (can we just refer to it as the challenge from now on?!). Why did it kick home today, why am I calling today Day 1? Well, tonight I [...]
