Test your colour perception
One for the designers and photographers out there, and perhaps requiring just that little bit too much time and concentration to be called ‘fun’, but still worth a go… Test your colour perception with the FM 100 Hue Test
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‘Bride’ arrested on wedding day – Times Online
Is this the sort of wedding photography I aspire to? ‘Bride’ arrested on wedding day – Times Online
What did Siebold ever do for us?
Well, according to the FT Magazine article, Defining Moment – Japanese knotweed invades Britain, he was the person responsible for introducing Japanese knotweed to the British Isles, way back on 9 August 1850. Mind you, he also got up to some fairly dodgy dealings in its native Japan. Perhaps as Read more …
Cheering on Sharon Laws at the Olympics
A short while ago I discovered that a former colleague, friend and fellow cyclist Sharon Laws is going to be riding for Great Britain in the women’s road race at the Beijing Olympics. Wow, bloody amazing! So, this is just to say…. GO SHARON! More about Sharon at: www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/2525097/Sh… www.britishcycling.org.uk/web/site/BC/gbr/News2008/200808… Read more …
Hewlett Packard customer support – there’s an oxymoron if ever I heard one!
I’ve had some strange replies to questions/complaints before, but this one really takes the biscuit. A nearly new print cartridge packed up, and it should be covered under warranty, so I tried to ask HP how I should return it. At this point readers should either give up, or make Read more …
“Science is like a good friend: sometimes it tells you things you don’t want to hear”
Whilst I still work in an organisation with science at its core, I don’t often regret having left my first role as an actual, real, bona fide scientist. But when I read someone like Charlie Brooker standing up for scientists (Science is like a good friend: sometimes it tells you Read more …