Awesomeness, Christmas, Linkage, Videos
Google’s Christmas Doodle
I will explain the huge gap in posts later. Google has posted its 2010 Christmas holiday logo. It may be the best yet! A Holiday Card From Google by the Wall Street Journal has a detailed article on what went into the logo. Google reportedly started working on this logo back in July, spending 250 […]
Gibberish, Humour, Linkage
Dolphins Defend Dick van Dyke
Possibly the greatest thing to have ever happened in the history of the world. It deserves the alliterative title I’ve given it, even though I abhor alliteration. From The Guardian web site: On screen, Dick Van Dyke has been rescued from untimely death by flying cars and magical nannies. Off screen, the veteran star of […]
Awesomeness, Computers & The Internet, History, Linkage, Videos
Google Earth 6
Google has just unveiled Google Earth 6.0 beta, and it has some great new features in it! The three main features they’ve added are: Tighter integration with Street View 3D Trees Updated historical imagery system New Street View is now similar to Google Maps – simply grabbing the Pegman from alongside of your navigation controls and […]
Formula One, Sport
Formula One 2010 – Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
Last week, I wrote about the Brazilian Grand Prix and the ways in which Fernando Alonso could win the World Championship at that race – him being the only one of the then five contenders that could do it. This weekend sees the 19th and final race of the Formula One season and four drivers […]
Photographs
A Love Of Long Exposure
There’s something quite incredible about long exposure photographs. Most photography uses extremely fast shutter speeds, only allowing light into the camera for a fraction of a second, but when longer exposures are used there can be some remarkable results. Static objects are revealed in heightened detail, while anything moving becomes a blur. At nighttime, long exposures […]
Computers & The Internet, General, Linkage, Site News, Work
The New Sites
Finally, I have pretty much finished revamping all of my websites. ThomasJPitts.co.uk This is the main selection page if you will. It is built with WordPress and a couple of plugins. It will allow you to choose which part of my sites you want to visit. HSXs Blog Why I still use the net name […]
Awesomeness, Videos
3D Lego Printer
MakerLegoBot is a 3D printer made of LEGO bricks that can print LEGO bricks using LEGO bricks. Here, watch it construct a simple LEGO house.
Formula One, Sport
Formula One 2010 – Brazilian Grand Prix
Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso can join an exclusive group later this weekend if he wins his third world title. Other triple world champions are Ayrton Senna (1988, 1990, 1991), Nelson Piquet (1981, 1983, 1987), Niki Lauda (1975, 1977, 1984), Jackie Stewart (1969, 1971, 1973) and Jack Brabham (1959, 1960, 1966). If Alonso does win this title, […]
Gibberish, Language, Linkage
Atrocious Apostrophe’s
(The rogue apostrophe in the title is ironic… honest.) I am a hater of the apostrophe – but only its misuse. The apostrophe is used to denote missing letters in words that over the years have been dropped to ease pronunciation. The commonest examples are the auxiliary verbs and the word ‘not’. Thus I am becomes I’m […]
