Eye On Springfield –

Eye On Springfield is a retrospective of Simpsons hilarity spanning from seasons 1 to 9, when it was still funny.

Great for a laugh.

Early tomorrow morning I’ll be off to the airport for my Christmas holiday to the British Virgin Islands. I’ll be away for ten days – which means I will return on Christmas Eve, just in time for all those presents.

Hopefully, I’ll be able to take some photos of the places we visit and people we meet, it’s also an opportune time to whittle down the pile of books I’ve been meaning to read. And finally, to get some school work done; after all – I’ve got my GCSE trial exams as soon as I return to school.

Best wishes in the holiday season, stay safe and enjoy yourself. I know I certainly will.

If you spend more time reading camera and lens reviews than actually taking pictures, there is something majorly wrong. [Link]

Or you just can’t afford the camera you want.

Brian over at Elite by Design has amassed a truly terrific collection of forty black and white photos for your viewing pleasure. Black and white images always seem to have a bit more to them, they seem a lot deeper and leave a lot to the imagination.

I never understood why Microsoft were selling software to protect their own operating system. It’s good to see they’re taking the software in the right direction - lightweight, nonintrusive and best of all free.

I found a terrific article from way back in 2003 on starting a business, there’s some great advice in it – but the best is for young people (like myself) wanting to start a business:

Technical knowledge and raw talent only go so far. When working at a company, you see how established businesses function: how workflow is managed, how clients are dealt with, how managers treat workers, and the absolutely critical nature of deadlines, no matter how tight. These are invaluable lessons that school does not teach.

You have to follow before you can lead.

The ‘Joys’ Of Installing CS4 –

Nice. So now we have a bunch of things, one of which is called “Setup.app” and is presumably the Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium installer application. Never mind that everyone else on the planet uses the verb to install rather than to set up. Never mind that the file’s name contains no indication of what it is that it is going to be “setting up.” Never mind that there are all kinds of other things in this folder that the user does not need to see. Never mind that the application in question has the exact same icon as the thing that you’ve just clicked on, which was a folder.

I own CS3 and can’t say I found installing it a pain – but the updates are. I made the mistake of uninstalling a few of the apps from the suite and now those I do use won’t update.

I hope Adobe can get their act together, they seem pretty in tune with the internet community so maybe we’ll here something back from them. Until then, I’m steering clear of CS4 – not that I’d use most of the new features anyways.

Even if you don’t use any of Adobe’s products, this makes a highly entertaining read, even if it wasn’t meant to be.

For my UK readers out there, Top Gear, one of the best programs on TV (along with Dragons Den) is now on iTunes.

Each episode of the new series will be purchasable eight days after it’s aired – an episode is up on iPlayer for seven days y’see – and the whole of series 10 is also available from right now.

Enjoy! I will.

A very good collection of innovative advertising from various companies in including Nike and Universal Studios. Definitely worth a look.

If you live in the UK then you may be familiar with the BBC’ television program Dragon’s Den – one of the best things on the box at the moment.

One of the Dragon’s I have always enjoyed hearing about has been Duncan Bannatyne. He’s quite the character, and only hearing tidbits about his success I decided I wanted to learn more. So, last weekend I purchased the audio version of his autobiography from iTunes.

I found his story not only informative but entertaining. Within the book you learn how he managed to turn around business’ in a relatively short period of time, how he got into his charity work (for which he earned an OBE) and some of his personal traits that make him so successful.

If you have a bit of spare cash, or iTunes credit then I highly recommend you either pick up the book or download a copy from iTunes. It makes a highly enjoyable read.