Letters Remain

Author: Lloyd Morgan

  • Black and White Photography on Overcast Days

    Wired’s How-To Wiki has a short and sweet article on Producing Terrific Black & White Photos. There’s a good tip for those who feel the need to go photographing on an overcast day: Most photographers will tell you that gloomy, overcast days are perfect for shooting in black and white. So the next time the…

  • The Long Now Foundation

    Established in 01996 […] The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide counterpoint to today’s “faster/cheaper” mind set and promote “slower/better” thinking. A very admirable goal and one I’m inclined to embrace wholeheartedly. You may have heard of one of their projects, Long Bets. The current featured bet was placed by Warren Buffett with a $1,000,000…

  • 10 Essential (Software) Development Practices

    Ten Essential Development Practices is an article from Perl.com (O’Reilly) based on Perl Best Practices, a book on Perl coding and development guidelines. Given how obvious the items on this list are, it’s surprising how this isn’t followed. Design the Module’s Interface First Write the Test Cases Before the Code Create Standard POD Templates for…

  • 100 Items or Less

    No, it’s not the new checkout lane at the supermarket, but Dave Bruno’s purging goal (summary): And honestly, it is difficult to purge.  What goes?  That is a hard decision.  But I have an idea.  A spontaneous idea that might change my life forever.  I’m calling it the 100 Thing Challenge.  And I’m taking it.…

  • Google Street View, Cardiff, UK

    Yesterday I bumped into a Google Street View car while it was capturing images in Cardiff Bay (UK). Unfortunately I was initially confused at the strange vehicle, only realising the obvious when I saw the big ‘Google’ sign on the side of it. If it was actually capturing data as it passed me I’m going…

  • ‘Improv Everywhere’ Going Mainstream?

    Are the Pranks of Improv Everywhere Mean Enough for Prime Time? is a New York magazine article profiling the quasi-group and its leader. An interesting introduction for the uninitiated and a look at what’s in store for the future for those who are fans. To date, they’ve staged more than 70 “missions,” as Todd calls…

  • Good Investment Funds

    I’ve said before that Stocks and Shares ISAs are a crucial item in your investment armoury, and with Plonkee’s comprehensive introduction to them, they were demystified. Now Plonkee has done it again by giving us a guide to some basic investment funds. It’s posts like this that save me hours of research. In terms of…

  • Great Speeches: Oprah and Obama

    A couple of speeches currently getting rave reviews: Oprah’s Stanford Commencement, 2008 Barack Obama’s Father’s Day Speech, Chicago Stanford always seem to nail that commencement speech. via Ramit’s del.icio.us links and 37signals’ Signal vs. Noise

  • Hello Firefox 3

    For those of you who are interested, Firefox 3 has now been released and you have until 18:16 UTC to get it for your download to count towards the record. There’s a rather fetching and oh-so-meaningful ‘certificate‘ that you can get too! A great marketing ploy, and one that’s obviously working its magic with 5,045,577…

  • Behavioural Addiciton: Gambling in Las Vegas

    A conference on gambling addiction, run by the National Center for Responsible Gaming, is to be held in Las Vegas later this year. Put aside the irony for a moment, there are more sinister events afoot. Salon’s article Gambling with Science notes that the NCRG is funded by the gambling industry and may have a…