Buoyed by playing around with Steve’s fisheye, I thought I’d have a go at some more back-to-basics film photography. Under the guise of tidying things away, I dug around the spare room and found a long forgotten plastic 35mm film camera. None of my screwdrivers fitted any of the screws holding it together, so [...]
The scoreline makes it look safer than it felt last night. Although the Brakes looked fairly confident, Cradley scored first and the Brakes couldn’t muster a reply during the first half.
Alex Rodman fixed that a few minutes into the second half. Things were pretty tense for a while, until Martin Thompson made a good [...]
Although the pictures link to Amazon, the next few Far Eastern films I blog about are likely to be from a batch I bought from the rather wonderful DDDHouse. It’s always a joy when you finally convert your total from Hong Kong dollars to pounds and see how cheap it is, and it’s always [...]
After a stroll into town for lunch, enjoying the warmth and the heat, it was a disappointment for us to get to the New Windmill Ground to find it cooling down and starting to drizzle.
Still, we cheered up when Oldbury fluffed a clearance opportunity in the first five minutes, and Alex Rodman took [...]
First we had spam — unsolicited commercial email.
Then we had comment spam — links to commercial sites in unsolicited and unwanted comments and forums, designed to bump up that link’s search engine priority.
Then there was blog spam: fake blogs with junk content, and links, again designed to bump up tose links’ search engine priorities.
But, [...]
I did some recreational programming last night. For some reason I got it into my head that it would be useful to have a tool to tell you whether a given picture was correctly entered in the Flickr Monthly Scavenger Hunt.
A first stab using PHP and the phpFlickr library gave something functional but not [...]
Tom and Abbi decided that after 2 years in their home, it was about time they allowed an unruly mob to invade it for a night. We walked up in a group of 6, in the cold, stopping in the Star and Garter for a drink and to pick up JV and Suzanne, then [...]
We made the long journey to Hereford in the expectation of a satisfying show of strength, against the team at the bottom of the league, with 22 losses in 30 games. Yes, glory hunting at its worst, but what can you do?
I predicted we’d win 2-0, and and at half time, even though we [...]
It’s a scoreline that doesn’t reflect the play. Most spectators will agree that we outplayed them. Unfortunately it’s goals that count.
Nobody scored in the first half, although a Malvern foul resulted in David Care being carried off the pitch.
Someone lost concentration in the first few minutes of the second half, resulting in Malvern’s first [...]
Japanese cinema? How very last millennium. Haven’t you heard, it’s all about Korean film nowadays. It’s slightly more exotic, and they speak gibberish (I can at least make out the basic structure of Japanese sentences now). Here’s the last couple of films we watched.
3 Iron doesn’t suffer too much from the speaking gibberish issue, [...]