Month: December 2014

  • Rail Priorities

    Over Christmas Network Rail managed to inconvenience thousands of travellers – particularly around King’s Cross and Paddington stations in London. The reason was that the scheduled works that they’d planned for Christmas Day and Boxing Day massively overran and therefore people travelling on the 27th found that either they couldn’t, or it would be particularly…

  • 19,013 Songs

    That is what it says on my Google Play Music account. 19,013 songs. Look, I realise that all the cool kids are renting their music on Spotify. It might not actually make any money, but it’s so much more convenient paying £10 a month and having access to all your music. Except when the album…

  • The Grounds of Felbrigg Hall

  • Beach Long Exposures

    A few pictures from dusk today. Lots of post-processing.

  • Radio Times – Boxing Day 2014

    One final festive dose of what to watch, and what not to watch (IMHO). As ever, if you can’t read my scrawl, then try a bigger version.

  • M42 – Orion Nebula

    I’m rather pleased with this picture of the Orion Nebula. I’ve never seen it before, sitting within Orion’s belt, and being basically invisible without an optical aid. This was taken in my first session with an iOptron Star Tracker – a mount that sits on a regular photographic tripod to allow you to take photos…

  • Radio Times – 25 December 2014

    Happy Christmas! Here are some of your viewing – and listening – guides for today. If you can’t read this on your screen, click here. Here are your radio choices! Large version here. My Radio Times collection…

  • Happy Christmas!

  • Radio Times – 24 December 2014

    I know what you’re thinking. It’s Christmas again, and I’ve no idea what to watch on television. I know that there’s loads on, but how do I sort the good stuff from the bad? Well fear not. I’m back for with a few holiday suggestions. (In case you didn’t know, I’ve done this before.) As…

  • A Norfolk Sunset

    Testing a really big photo format. A couple more here.

  • How Retail Works… I Think

    Judging from my inbox, this how retail works towards the end of the year: October Only x number of days to go. Buy now. November Offers. Buy now. Black Friday (Actually a full week) Cyber Monday (Another full week) December Buy buy buy. Offers. Twelve days of Christmas (despite 12 Days of Christmas being after…

  • Spotify and Meghan Trainor

    A week or so ago I popped in for a couple of sessions of an interesting music tech conference held in the BBC Radio Theatre called On the Beat. One of the sessions included a presentation by the always interesting Will Page, Director of Economics at Spotify. He was examining the interaction of Spotify, Shazam,…