The Real Value of Good Optics and Sensor Size in Photography – Lens Aperture Explained
Posted by The Editor in General, photography on 19 January 2012
This article is intended to discuss in simple terms a subject that confuses many photo amateurs when they come to the realisation that their point and shoot camera doesn’t allow them to make progress. There are a few obstacles to this path, such as a camera that doesn’t shoot when you press the button, lack [...]
Bogus Jobs: employers get worried
Posted by The Editor in Employment, General, UK on 16 November 2011
Browsing around the web, I found more evidence of bogus jobs offered by the many cowboy recruitment agents in the UK. Today was the last episode of a guy sending a vacancy that had, for a change, nothing to do with my profile. I politely replied that I am currently in a more senior role [...]
Trends of the 21st Century: women shaving their arms
Posted by The Editor in Beauty, General on 19 October 2011
My attention was recently drawn to a trend that seems to be gathering pace among women across Europe. It started when my wife was telling me about one of her colleagues who, tired of shaving her arms, decided to try a permanent hair removal treatment. My wife has a fair skin and her body hair [...]
WiFi and Video Senders
Posted by The Editor in General, Technology on 12 October 2011
If you and your not-too-far neighbours use WiFi equipment, you may find all this sounding familiar. Like many of you I have a WiFi network at home, and I have always left the channel selection of my access point set to “Auto” as the system always found a suitable channel that served the whole house. [...]
Is it only me thinking that this was pretty bad taste?
Posted by The Editor in Current News, General on 7 October 2011
This is the first page from today’s London Metro, with one of Steve Jobs’s own quotes taken out of context. Then, cherry on the cake, they placed the Rooney news next to it. At the end of the day, you get what you pay for: nothing.
