Happy new year!

Merry Christmas!

Normal service will be resumed once all the good food has worn off.

BBC iPlayer Now for Mac!

Ok, so you can't download content but I like the interface and free is cheaper than Sky+!

Check out the iPlayer here.

Off to China

I've just booked a holiday in China!
First I'll be doing a two week "Discover China"tour with Jules Verne then I'll fly from Shanghai to Hong Kong and hang out there for 5 days at the Eaton.

My biggest dilemma so far is whether to lug the laptop with me. I'm thinking no, but then I'm gonna need one of those hard drive backup thingies. I saw the Hyperdrive Colorspace on Luminous Landscape. Looks pretty cool, especially the 4AA battery pack. I'm figuring that power may be an issue on parts of the tour. I've already contacted the UK distributor to try and get them in the shop, we'll see how that goes.

Anyone got any recommendations?
What should I see in Hong Kong?

Video tech tips, usefull?

I've been considering the idea of making some short video clips to illustrate the use of various light modifiers and other accessories.
Would tips this basic be usefull? I think they would. You could spend 5 minutes trying to explain the difference between a snoot and a grid or demonstrate it to them in a 1 minute video.
What do you think?

Dodgy Chinese Capacitors

Found this pic on the net.
I can't believe anyone would get away with this, the cap inside is a totally different rating, not even the voltage is the same!

See the world through books

After a huge breakfast at the Kingsway Hall we took a stroll down
Longacre and popped into Standfords book shop.
As a big Amazon patron it takes a lot for me to like a bricks and
mortar store but this place has me hooked.
Because it specialises in travel books and covers three floors it has
everything from lonely planet guides to NYC to strange (hand drawn?)
maps of the amazon.
The next time I travel, I'm coming here to buy the guides!

PhaseOne Christmas Night Out

A huge thank you to eric and phase one for the night out in London. A
lovely meal at The Forge on Garrick St was followed by Spamalot, which
as a Python fan, I found hillarious.
This is Eric, our host, getting in the biggest round ever...,