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Sports tracker on the N95

Mar 21, 2008

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s fun to walk fast and far, especially in the countryside where there are fewer people to avoid. I often walk for fourty minutes to an hour at the end of the day to think about the day and process all that’s happened. Recently though I realised one of the shorter…

Eight things you didn’t know about me – Tagged by Nik and Neil

Mar 15, 2008

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in fun

Reading Time: 2 minutesBoth Nik and Neil have tagged me to talk about eight random things about myself and since I have some time tonight I’ll work on this. 1) I reached competition level as a skier in France after progressing through all the levels but have never bothered to compete. I love the sport…

Practice with the Canon XH A1

Mar 7, 2008

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richard

in cameras, fun, tech related, work

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWith a screen resolution of 1920*1080 interlaced this is one of the higher resolution cameras currently on the market at the moment. It’s beautifuly designed for camera men rather than engineers (unlike the red).Â I already wrote about earlier.The light wasn’t so interesting but here areÂ 11 seconds of footage.Â (92 megs) Right click…

Valentine’s – a social media perspective

Feb 15, 2008

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richard

in fun, Holidays, social media, social networking, warzabidul

Reading Time: 2 minutesValentine’s day is a day both dreaded and feared by most for two reasons, as a couple because of the pressure you’re under and as a single because you’re single. In the social media though it can be one of the most amusing times. My social media valentine consisted in two parts.…

Yahoo live

Feb 10, 2008

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in fun, reviews, social media, tech related, warzabidul

Reading Time: < 1 minuteYahoo live is an interesting live video conferencing tool still in it’s early days. It allows you to stream video live from your webcam and watch up to four other streams at the same time. There’s a chatroom and you can see all the participants at once and select which ones…

The Seesmeetup

Dec 29, 2007

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in fun, London, observation, seesmic, social media, social networking, twitter

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s taken no more than a few days from the time I first saw Fred2baro on seesmic to our first meeting with Deek in London for the first Seesmeetup… so called. In fact it was both Sizemore that had the first meeting although more private in nature. One of the questions…

Twittervox – as seen in central London

Dec 6, 2007

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in fun, London, seesmic, social media, social networking, twitter, warzabidul

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe film Juno was screened to a crowd of bloggers of which both Loudmouthman and I were part of. As a result it gave us the perfect opportunity to do a twittervox. The video can be found here for direct download. After meeting with Nik Butler and others for the screening…

first post from the touch

Nov 21, 2007

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richard

in fun, ipod touch, reviews, social networking, tech related

Reading Time: < 1 minutethis is a post typed from the iPod touch to see how easy it isto use. Aside from not having a proper keyboard it seems to work fine. Great for blogging on the move.

Quarterlife – created for the web, taken up by NBC

Nov 17, 2007

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richard

in fun

Reading Time: < 1 minuteQuarterlife is a show about what life is like for those at the quarter life mark, in their mid twenties. Last week their first episode came out and already they’ve signed a deal with NBC for it to be broadcast on NBC. That’s an interesting development. Â When you read the article…

Learning more about Dziga Vertov and his views on cinema

Nov 2, 2007

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richard

in fun, Post-university life, social networking

Reading Time: < 1 minuteDziga Vertov is an interesting personality because of his ideas of the Cinema eye. His notion was that with the cinema eye, the Kino Glaz you could capture life unawares whilst being involved in the creative treatment of actuality. After making some quick money by answering some social networking questions I…

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