Merry Christmas!
It’s been another great year for thelongmile.net. With a server move, upgrades and significant improvements to my photography. It’s also meant I’ve gotten out and met new people, seen great new things and of course learnt so much a long the way! This site alone has seen three rebuilds and no-one has helped me more [...]
Thinking Different?
I’ve been using my Mac now for about six months, having never used a Macintosh before, but there are a few things that still seem alien to me, and of course some things I miss from Windows. For those of you who have never used Mac before, I thoroughly recommend it, there is no real [...]
Christmas artwork – it’s here
Well, it was a long three days rendering, but here it is, the christmas photography, and the christmas digital landscape, all ready for you to view on flickr. This one is more special to me because of course we are coming to the end of a decade. So, this year I have given you three [...]
Christmas artwork update
Well, For the first time this year I think I’m ahead of schedule, and for the very first time, I am bringing you two Christmas image sets. Yup thats right, two. I today completed building and have now started rendering the 3D Landscape for this christmas and the end of the decade… that’s going to [...]
IMAX Opens in Cardiff & I got an advanced screening
I’ve never been to an IMAX cinema before, so getting invited along to the press launch of the Cardiff IMAX cinema screen was a pretty incredible way to be introduced to the technology. With over half a million pounds invested in the new cinema screen and technology, cardiff ODEON cinema has made a substantial investment [...]
The problem with ‘Googling it’
Right now I’m sat here waiting to go to the emergency out of hours doctors appointment I’ve made for my ear infection. I’m not telling you this because I want to, I’m telling you this because it’s going to come up later in this post, be patient. Here in Cardiff, we don’t exactly have the [...]
The new iTunes app store, and why I hate it
Oh dear, Apple you have done something I never thought you would do. You changed the app store. And you did it badly. The changes have only happened this evening so I expect there will be some teething issues and changes however, the new app store is completely counter intuitive and as stated by a [...]
Announcing a New Section: Tech
I said before that I wanted to include more tech related posts, since this site is inevitably becoming just a blog of a tech nut / photography nut / amateur artist … etc this is the first major stage in doing that. There are some posts already in there, but you’ll also be seeing my [...]
Late night shopping
Late night shopping. It’s a curious phenomenon but one that I’m very much in love with. I’m currently off work with a variety of things to deal with, most of which I will not go into publicly, suffice to say I have set myself a routine to keep things more normal in my life and [...]
Windows 7, Macs et all, my thoughts
I’m often loathed to give myself tasks which I fear completing. In fact not only do I loath it, I also seem to do it with an alarming number of things. Take twitter for instance. A user on twitter asked about Windows 7, and what did people think of this new operating system from the [...]
Some News about the recent downtime
As you know, the site went down for an hour on the 7th of December, but this wasn’t for maintenance or for spring cleaning, This was in fact something far bigger. Previously the server that was hosing thelongmile.net was hosted in the United States. In Newark, New Jersey on server newark149 if your interested of [...]
