Newton’s Cradle is another one of those apps that’s pretty useless as far as functionality goes but it’s just great fun. What does it do? It replicates the old 70′s office toy by using real world physics and clash detection to make a very realistic Newton’s Cradle. Cool!! Ohhhhh and it makes good use of [...]

HDR photographs in the Lake District were taken, mostly with my life on the edge of a precipice. Carrying the rather expensive camera up a mountainside with my tripod was frowned upon, but the results are worth it. This was an experiment, but I think I can get a couple of images to print out [...]

This app doesn’t really do much except roll a number of dice, that’s it, but it does this beautifully. The animation and real world crash detection is simply sublime. Just shake your iphone and watch the dice roll around and come to rest on your score. You can choose how many dice and from a [...]

This app is great if you want to convert from one unit to another. It covers all constant categories Area, Energy, Temperature, Length etc and a very useful feature which is Currency. This would be great for those holidays abroad, though watch your data transfer rates. I suppose this is one of the apps shortfalls, [...]

my way to spend the sunday afternoon. Originally uploaded by _uncommon I found this HDR photo on flickr (a good source to see some fantastic HDR) and represents all that I like in a photo, composition, colour and alcohol. I think I would’ve touched out the leaves to the right of the photo but apart [...]

I found this interesting painting of old Market Harborough. It shows the Grammar School and St Dionysius Church with everyday life taking place. I don’t know when this was painted but it’s interesting to see that not much has changed since the horse & cart era. What particularly interested me was what, at first, looks [...]

So ‘Man of constant sorrow’ was playing on our sound system at work and it got me to wondering about Dapper Dan’s Pomade. After a lil research I found it’s a fictional hair product but ya can buy replica tins and fill with your own pomade. It’s a pity I’ve not got much hair else [...]

Here’s my second offering on the useless iphone app front, kaleidoscope. It simply replicates the effect of the toy that ya used to put to your eye as a kid and marvel at changing colours as you twisted the end and watched the coloured sand swirl into different patterns. To interact with this version ya [...]

Mmmmm it appears that Springfield Retail Park in Market Harborough has been sold. This is the Old Cattle Market area as far as I can make out, meaning Homebase, Brantano, In-Store and Sainsburys. Springfield retail park in Market Harborough has been bought by an investor advised by Briant Champion Long for £9.1m – a net [...]

On the 8th minute, of the 8th hour, of the 8th day, of the 8th month of 2008 is said to be doomsday time. The world will stop turning and we’ll all drop off into outer space or something like that. Well as a bona fide super hero I can’t let that happen, I will [...]