I haven't posted in my LJ for ages but I notice that Snowcalla just put up a good news topic and that inspired me to do one too.

For many years back in the UK on was on the list to be a beta tester for the company the makes some specialist software I use a lot in my sound work.  However, back in 2007 there was a long period when I was largely ( Read more... )

 Okay I'm a year or two late with this post.  I'm just watching the film of "Where the Wild Things Are" for the first time on TV ( Read more... )

For no good reason I happened to see several police shows on TV today ( Read more... )

Quick question:  in American law enforcement terms, what's the difference between an "agent" and a "special agent"?

I realised that I keep hearing both terms in TV and films but have no idea of the significance.

In a recent discussion of the Israeli attack on the flotilla, a LJ friend of mine posted the following comment::

"OK. I'm just going to say it.

Western reaction to Israel and the Arab states is tainted with racism.

We look at Israel and see us. Western, educated, cultured. We hold them to a higher standard of behavior and are proportionally more ( Read more... )

The last twice I've visited my local greengrocer, they've had tubs of "cherry tomatoes" that are the smallest I've ever seen. Rather than the size of a cherry, they're more the size of a large blueberry ( Read more... )

A pinched nerve in my back kept me in my chair watching the goggle box this afternoon...and "All the President's Men" was on ( Read more... )

Nicked from Milo who nicked it from Kath


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 I found this video fascinating.

Back in 1906, four days before the earthquake, somebody put a film camera on the front of a tram and travelled the length of San Francisco's Market Street

Click to view

Fun!

A friend doing a graphic design course posted this link the other day:

PHOTOSHOP CS5 SNEAK PEAK.

I use Photoshop a fair bit for cleaning up photos but have never worried much about keeping up to date with the latest and greatest--I have an ancient copy of the full programme and a current copy of the "Elements" (i.e. stripped down) version.

However, it ( Read more... )