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Media Strategies for a MacBook Air

I recently had some correspondence with Blake Burris, who is himself considering the MacBook Air. Blake was asking about how I’m managing my iTunes and photo libraries on the Air’s limited disk space.
Here’s the substance of what I said, in the hope that it will be useful to others:
I’m a two-machine guy now. [...]


John Redwood MP: Parliament Finally Detaches From Reality

The economics get more depressing every day. The government handling, even more so. As John Redwood MP comments:
Large sums of money were made available to the banks to ease them through the persistent credit crunch and liquidity crisis. The US were tidying up the loose ends of the rescue of America’s fifth largest investment [...]


Abandoned Places

I have a particular and, to my friends, odd love of the abandoned, the decaying and the broken. It’s abundant subject matter when you live in Scotland.

Canon EOS 30D, Canon EF-S 10-22mm @ 22
1/30th @ f/4, ISO 200


RSS Subscribing Fixed

A number of people wrote to let me know that using the RSS button in Safari to subscribe to my feed was broken. It’s fixed now, but you might need to empty Safari’s cache (see: Safari menu / Empty Cache) before it will behave correctly.


*tap tap* Is this thing on?

Holidays sometimes give you time to sit back and look at the way things are going, make changes and decisions about the future. This holiday has been so relaxing that I couldn’t even muster up the requisite anger when April decided to write my name on the car today …. with a stone.
So speirs.org [...]