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Photos by a four year old

This site needs a lot of loving. It needs a complete makeover and turning into a proper portfolio place, where the blog is secondary or possibly just a Tumblr feed. I’ve been a busy lately, with lots of work and side projects going on.

For example, I’m now blogging regularly at PC Gamer‘s new site, acting as their hardware news puppy. That takes up most of the free time I used to have. Plus there’s a new sort of super secret launch I’m putting together for myself.

As a bit of light relief, we’re letting Tabby play around with cameras too. She’s only four and has the bug already. They’re  going up at Photos by a four year old, which should have been a Tumblr blog really, but this will do. That’s one of her shots on the left, there. Got a good eye she has.

May 30 2011 | Posted in: Diary of a dad | No Comments »

Throwing colours in Brighton



Filming colours in Brighton_16, originally uploaded by nisuspi.

Today was mostly spent following a film crew and flashmob around brighton waiting for this moment. They were shooting a promo for a club night, Playgroup, inspired by the Hindu festival of colours, Holi. It involves throwing dye powder at each other.

May 7 2011 | Posted in: Personal bits | No Comments »

It’s broken again…

The design that is. No idea why the green arrows are there. Will try to fix them this weekend I think.

//update 5th May

Early days, but I think Steve from LearnAsOne may have fixed my site. He spotted that a slideshow function had been turned on somehow, and that may well have been what was causing the problems…

April 28 2011 | Posted in: Personal bits | No Comments »

It’s… it’s… No, I give up.

I get sent a lot of press releases in the course of a working day. Sometimes it can literally be hundreds. It’s my fault for not hunkering down and sticking to one subject matter to write about. I get everything from update reports on hospitals in Libya to… well… this.

It’s… one of the few things to have actually made me stop during a busy day and pay more than a cursory bit of attention to an email that should have been filtered through to my PR bin (for searching through at a later date if I’m really, really short of a story). Apparently, it’s a cover for an Xbox 360 that “is a brand built from the ground up to provide everything the avid gamer needs to get the most out of their console”.

Look, it’s colourful and it’s got hooks you can hang gamepads on. It’s what every living room needs, right?

It’s almost the perfect press release: Pointless product, eye stopping picture, no direct link for more information, sent to a list bought in from somewhere else without actually bothering to check and see if I write about Xboxes. Which, apart from in very specific circumstances, I don’t. The reply-to address is simply ‘PR’ too, so I have no idea who it’s from.

I want one.

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The Kindle is ace for books

But nothing else. I’ve tried really hard to like the periodicals download, really I have. I’ve paid for the Independent, the Financial Times and the New Statesman, mainly because I’ve felt so guilty reading all their content online for free for so long. But I couldn’t quite put my finger on my reading magazine articles on a Kindle was so unsatisfying, especially when I absolutely devour books on the thing and by many more of them since I got a the device.

Now I realise what it is. Half of the joy of a magazine is browsing, in the same way that websites are more engrossing when their full of informative links. I’ve had the latest copy of the Staggers on my Kindle for over a week now, but if  it hadn’t been for someone linking to this amazing story by Hugh Grant (of all people) via Facebook, I’d have missed it. The Kindle actively pushes you away from index pages and article links and almost forces you to read in a linear fashion. Which is perfect for books, of course, but terrible for news articles.

Anyway – enough wibbling about the Kindle. Go read Hugh Grant’s bugging the buggers piece for a quite incredible piece of journalism and possibly the first honest thing that’s been written about phone hacking so far.

April 13 2011 | Posted in: Journalism | No Comments »

Am working on…

Several features which I’m really enjoying. Unusually so. Also, all at nicely oblique angles to the day-to-day stuff which keeps me in toast and butter. Will link to them in due course.

Also, birds.

They aren’t completely random. I took Tabby to the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Arundel at the weekend. She loved it.

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Sky launches new arts fund

There’s a bit of an exclusive over at Dan’s blog, artistsandmakers.com. Apparently the Sky Arts channel is going to start giving out bursaries to artists and projects. What sort of art will Murdoch sponsor, I wonder.

April 7 2011 | Posted in: Journalism | No Comments »

A new lens

Somehow, I managed to get hold of one of Nikon’s fabulous 35mm F1.8 lenses within two days of ordering. Jessops told me they had over 100 orders  they didn’t expect to fulfil for two weeks, yet mine was waiting for me when I got home. Shame I didn’t have it yesterday, but I’m very much looking forward to playing with it. I was too busy taking pics like this to take one of the lens, sorry.

Oh yeah – it’s a bargain too. I paid £160 for mine.

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Battersea Power Station



Battersea Power Station _1, originally uploaded by nisuspi.

On Wednesday, I went to display manufacturer’s annual exhibition of its R&D partnerships. There were lots of cool things like giant touchscreens and 3D projectors. Everything was overshadowed by the venue though: the majestic and ruinous Battersea Power Station. At the end of the day, we even got a tour of the famous control room.

Click on the pic to see some more shots over at Flickr.

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Nope

I have no idea why the image at the top of the blog vanished for a week or so. Still, he’s back now, and that’s the main thing.

April 4 2011 | Posted in: Personal bits | No Comments »
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