Good luck in Jordan, Aston!
My good friend and colleague Aston was redeployed to Amman, Jordan in the Middle East after more than 15 years working at UNHCR headquarters in Geneva.
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Slow motion play with cats (video)
Last night I stayed up to 3am playing with Final Cut Pro, editing some slow motion footage I had shot with my cats back in January 2014 on an iPhone 5S.
Final Cut Pro and Die Antwoord (video)
So today I taught myself video editing using Final Cut Pro, (inspired by Casey Neistat), then I took my mobile phone footage of a recent Die Antwoord concert and make this short movie.
Nominated for a Digital Communications Award
Today I learned that a website I built for UNHCR has been nominated for the 2013 Digital Communications Awards in Berlin!
Al Murray’s “Only Way Is Epic” tour
“Of course Great Britain is “great”, the clue’s in the f**king title! I mean, the asylum seekers aren’t stopping in France, are they?”
Who needs logic when we’ve got Imperial measurements?
Not content with basing the whole system on the size of arbitrary body parts, today I learned about standard Imperial measurements for wood!
Arsonists petrol-bombed my street!
Last night, arsonists petrol-bombed the block opposite ours! We were woken up by the sound of breaking glass, explosions, and fire engines.
LEGO Minifigures Series 6 bump codes
Most people don’t realise I’m an even bigger geek than I let on. I collect LEGO minfigures, I have literally hundreds of them at home, […]
Pierre: A Cautionary Tale by Maurice Sendak
Among all of the story books my parents read to me as a child, one that really captured my imagination and always stuck with me […]
Apparently I’m a genius! Who know?
I just sat the Tickle IQ Test, which is supposed to be the most thorough and scientifically accurate IQ test on the web, and scored […]
Which “temperament type” are you?
I’ve been reading up on temperament theory; the belief that almost everything about you, from personality to health, can be characterised by which temperament group […]