Manbags, why are so many people against it?
If you’ve been reading my tweets as of late you might notice a conversation I’ve been having with @philwalters about ‘manbags’. But what’s really curious is some of the reactions I’ve been getting. Those of you that have met me will know I tend to favour a big coat. It’s not to hide my ever [...]
Customer service
Few things anger me more than poor customer service. I’ve had great customer service, and bad customer service. I’ve only ever once blown up and gotten aggressive on the phone and that was with a small minded individual at apple which was an isolated incident and quickly rectified by someone with a more professional attitude [...]
Slight holdup
Slight problem. The long overdue “dot com” side of my website has hit another snag. Initially I was very happy with the final design and layout thanks to some assistance in design from @staceyjenkins (a local designer) however two things have troubled me. The current ‘proposed site’ has zero blogging facility, and while I don’t [...]
Just how important is technology?
Funnily enough, I’ll start this article by saying I was reading wired on my iPad. Through the reading however there was a particular line which got me thinking. “…checking your email is now akin to brushing your teeth…” So just how important is technology in our daily lives, and is it really akin to brushing [...]
I have finally done it
Well it didn’t take long and so I finally decided to get an iPad, my thoughts are simple and can be expressed in one sentence, “my god what have I done!?!” But wait, read on, I want to explain that somewhat. You see the thing is, I’ve never been one for “early adopting” yet there [...]
It’s taken 7 months, but it’s time!
Well, It’s been a long and hard journey, but with some help from some friends and some people on twitter I have finally found the theme for thelongmile.com and I’m ready to start publishing and going live, all I need to do is integrate some form of store which I am currently working on and [...]
Ok so heres a small update
Hello everyone I just thought I would give you all a small-ish update on whats been happening as of late Production of thelongmile.com photography site has pretty much ground to a halt since I’m having trouble finding a theme under the GPL to rip apart and customise into something of my own, not only that [...]
A hard lesson learned
Late last week I had a somewhat unnerving experience, I walk into my office and turn on the computer and then go back out to make a cup of coffee expecting my computer to boot up into windows so I could copy across all the files that were on my laptop. It didn’t. Try as [...]
Hm, I’m tired
It’s been a few weeks now since I decided to swap out my car for something slightly better, it’s also been a few weeks since I started my new job, it’s even been a few weeks since I had some terrible pain in my ear requiring a weeks worth of both oral and topical antibiotics. [...]
NSFW: Why are UK post offices, so far behind other countries?
I must warn you before I go any further, this is a rant, a big one at that, it’s NSFW and will likely contain some swearing. I want to start by explaining my utter foul hatred of the UK post office, and the postal system. We are continually plagued with stories about postal workers striking, [...]
An interesting experience! Finally!
Last night I got my first taste of ‘real’ photography. Thanks to my involvement with the Casimir Effect Film I was invited along to a photoshoot that they were doing of the Cast. Some of whom you might know, John Jenner for example, has been in both Torchwood and Doctor Who. There were some other [...]
Damnit…
Today I have a problem, and not an easy one to solve. The time has come for me to trade in my car, but if I wait much longer I stand to loose thousands and thousands of pounds in depreciation. I have to get rid in the next two months or I may as well [...]
Britain Has Balls (careful now!)
Despite the slightly racy title it’s actually a very good thing. My friends at Red Consultancy let me know about the newest effort in the National lottery Good Causes scheme. This new drive focuses on touring Britain celebrating (and finding) the great things that ‘ballsy’ brits will do with lottery funding to support talent, charities [...]
Ah Macheist
So the time has of course come that my Mac endeavours include MacHeist and it’s wonderful nanobundles. For someone like me who is relatively new to Mac (near a year) these things are invaluable to me since they let me know about fantastic applications that I’ve never heard of (or thought of). Before you ask, [...]
Extended Server Maintenance Tonight
From around 6PM GMT tonight the server will experience extended downtime for a number of hours whilst I re-image the server from Debian, to CentOS. I’m doing this for a number of reasons, but it’s mainly to increase security and stability and make up for some of Debians shortcomings! Sorry about the inconvenience
Site Downtime
At approximately 11 pm thelongmile.net, cardifftweetups.co.uk, apptacious.com and casimireffectfilm.com all hosted on this server went down. The server experienced a catastrophic failure which was caused by a bad command in the system scripts. The system has now been restored with the help of the folks at linode.com and the server is performing normally. I apologise [...]
How computers took over cars? More like another rant on the BBC and their technology editors
I’ve been continually disturbed by the inaccuracies of the BBC technology reports as of late. The BBC used to be a fine, trusted news source with reliable accurate information even if it was a little slow to come to date, but today has really hit a nerve with me and I’ll explain why in a [...]
Announcing a new project, The Alphabet Project
Some months ago, I discovered thingaweek run by @foomandoonian on twitter and flickr. It’s a great incentive to everyone to take a picture on a set topic which gets set at the start of the week and the next 7 days become a fantastic challenge to take the very best picture you can. From this [...]
How Far is Too Far? – Cleaning
Come plastic fantastic or metal maniac, your sure to have to brush off the dust from your favourite computer gadgets. Of course, this goes without saying for many, at least, brushing the dust off does. But I find myself regularly cleaning my Mac and my iPhone with more than just spit and polish. It seems [...]
And so here is 2010, the year we … well…
…yeah I’m still struggling to fill in that one little tag line. Fifteen years ago we had such aspirations and hopes for our technology that we forgot somewhat to actually do it. If Arthur C Clarke was even close to being right, we would have orbital space stations that were publicly accessible, long range manned [...]
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 [...]
