Steve Jobs

October 6, 2011

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. [...]

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Analytics search terms in motion

October 5, 2011

How did I miss this? Google’s Analytics has a motion chart feature which shows not only the top keyword search terms, but how they move over time allowing you to more easily identify and spot trends over time. Quickly taking a look at my blog’s data for last week shows this (I turned trace on [...]

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What Apple didn’t tell you about the iPhone 4s

October 4, 2011

Apple made a big deal during the presentation about how talk time is longer with the new iPhone 4s. However what they didn’t mention is that web browsing and standby time (according to their own statistics) are reduced! iPhone 4 iPhone 4S Talk time 3G 7 hours 8 hours (+1 hour) Talk time 2G 14 [...]

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Apple’s iPhone 4S (a quick preview)

October 4, 2011

“Remind me to call my wife when I leave the strip club”. “Ok.” – Siri. It’s been a longer than normal, leak-filled wait but finally Apple took the wraps off its latest iPhone – the fifth iPhone since the original launched in 2007. Apple’s taking no chances with this release with numerous improvements all round [...]

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Me, at the Berlin Wall

October 2, 2011

On November 9th the Berlin Wall fell and this eight year old Mike was there. My dad found this photo amongst a collection of old slides and as a thirty year old father of one, it brought back memories; we used to cross the wall (via Checkpoint Charlie) from West Germany into Soviet/Communist controlled East [...]

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M45 – The Pleiades

September 26, 2011

“Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.”  – from “Locksley Hall” by Lord Tennyson I wasn’t going to post this shot since there’s so much technically wrong with it (uncompensated-for amp glow, underexposed flats, poor alignment, insufficient data, light [...]

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Latest UARS satellite times…

September 23, 2011

EDIT 22:25 GMT: Follow the track of the satellite LIVE here: http://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx?satid=21701&lat=0&lng=0&loc=unspecified&alt=0&tz=cet A satellite currently the size of a fridge freezer is currently falling to earth and within a couple of hours of this blog post is likely to have already completed it’s re-entry. Nobody knows where it’s going to land but according to the latest [...]

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Gamma Cygni (y Cyg) “Sadr” in Cygnus

September 21, 2011

If you live in the northern hemisphere, far overhead during the summer and autumn months is the constellation Cygnus the swan. Sadr is the pulsating star in the middle and this constellation effectively marks an area more or less in the middle of the Milky Way so in this unique image taken only a few [...]

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The supernova of a generation

September 11, 2011

29 million years ago in a galaxy far far away, a little star and a big star were having a dance amongst the billions of other stars together making the shape of a giant pinwheel. The little star had been pulling the mass from it’s bigger companion like a spinning wheel pulls cotton from a [...]

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Nonstick lipstick gloss for your touchscreen gadgets

September 7, 2011

Chapstick lipstick was invented in the 1880′s to protect and gloss your precious lips. Now in 2011 you can do the same for your precious iPad or other touchscreen device with the Nuscreen HD screen polish. It’s basically a carnuba wax, as used in all kinds of polishes and should buff up to a nice [...]

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