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 [...]
Read MoreDamnit…
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 [...]
Read MoreAh 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, I have [...]
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
Read MoreSite 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 [...]
Read MoreHow 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 [...]
Read MoreMerry 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 on [...]
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 [...]
Read MoreChristmas 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 things to [...]
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 be [...]
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 in [...]
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 [...]
Read MoreThe 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 [...]
Read MoreAnnouncing 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 [...]
Read MoreLate 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 [...]
Read MoreWindows 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 [...]
Read MoreSome 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 course.
Now [...]
Read MoreWell we all know what I do this time of year
Yes well, here comes Christmas, that time of year where everyone seems to end up using it more as an excuse to shop than it is to actually appreciate the true meaning.
But then, we also have the wonders of Cardiff Winter Wonderland which I missed out taking pictures of last year.
Alas that’s not what I’m [...]
Sleeping on it
Odd title I know, but actually it seems I spoke to soon when I posted my last blog. Things are not fine, in fact they’ve gotten much worse, so much so that work is again affecting my life in unmanageable proportions. Perhaps I should have saved the last blog post and slept on it. See [...]
Read MoreInteresting Times
I write this blog post with great angst in my soul, and a desperate realisation that I no longer come bounding into the office to write my blog posts, nor do I feel energised and creative every waking moment so that I can come up with an interesting blog post for you all to muse [...]
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