April 2008
12 posts
Je ne comprends pas...
There are recent uni grads in the office who are absolutely terrible at using Excel and PowerPoint. They can’t seem to comprehend that if an image is low-res, there’s pretty much nothing you can do to make it higher res. I’m the resident IT person in the area and I don’t claim to know everything. It just really surprises me that people younger than I, who supposedly are...
This batch (minus the Eiffel Tower one) consists of the first roll of film that I put through my Voigtlander Bessa-R. I love the sound and feel of the shutter release, the tension of winding the shutter. Developing film is exciting because that’s the first time you actually see your pictures in negative, and finally scanning them in batches - that’s when you finally see your pictures....
“Been shopping online. I really hope spring is here.”
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Preparing for the first notes of spring
It was a beautiful afternoon yesterday and I had the opportunity to leave the office early for a doctor’s appt at Baker Street. I arrived early and browsed the shops on Marylebone High Street. A lovely independent bookstore with aged wood shelves lined colourful books. An Oxfam book and music store where I picked up Office Politics secondhand. Le Pain Quotidien around the corner. Kitchen...
back to film; has it really been ten years?
I acquired a Voigtlander Bessa-R recently. It was a rather random desire to return to film and see what it’s like. Recommendations from friends and my dad, I finally bid successfully on ebay for the Bessa-R and for almost two weeks, it lay dormant on the shelf or packed away neatly in my going out bag, but without any film in it. Truth is I really didn’t know what to do with it. The...
Estate agents vs insurance salesmen vs 2nd hand...
It is exceptionally trying dealing with estate agents. As a tenant, you’re not the agent’s client. When we moved out of the flat, the inventory checker said that we had left it in better condition than when we received the flat. RPI - the agent - is charging us for not leaving the fridge and freezer in brand new condition. The fridge and freezer were replaced at some point during our...
PDF-fffing made easy
Ever wanted to convert a Microsoft document into a PDF easily? Macs do this easily enough, built into Office Mac is a function to save any Office document as a PDF. The downside to it is that you lose your live HTML links. However, getting a PDF made on a Windows platform has been an uphill battle. When I first contacted IT, they installed a program called PDF995 which works really well but...
