If you’re looking for a quick, concise summary of the rules for the 2009 F1 season, look no further than here. Let’s hope they don’t change them again before the season starts.
Author Archives: Alex
If you’ve ever wanted a dSLR, now is a good time
Amazon is selling the Nikon D40, with its 18-55mm kit lens, for the low low price of £246 (41% less than what I paid for it). The D40 is the dSLR I talked myself into buying in January 2007; although it’s since been replaced by the D40X (a ten megapixel version), and then the D60Continue reading “If you’ve ever wanted a dSLR, now is a good time”
Come Saturday by The Pains of Being At Heart
Was the last song stuck in my head. Yes, it’s a terrible name for a band. Although they had no problem grabbing the domain name. And it’s a great song, with that whole 80s chiming guitar thing going on, and floaty-light vocals. They’re offering it as a free download, which is just as well asContinue reading “Come Saturday by The Pains of Being At Heart”
Voodoo Economics: the credit crunch explained
Like many people I suspect, I’ve been wondering about the credit crunch. About what it is – other than a little lego block of language – about how real it is, how real all these stratospheric amounts of money being talked about. Wondering, I think, about what, in context of the CC, ‘money’ is. DigitsContinue reading “Voodoo Economics: the credit crunch explained”
Cover project 2009: photos of book covers
This year, as well as recording the books I’ve read, I’m also going to take pictures of them. The idea is that the photo will in some way reflect the contents, style and/or writing, or perhaps what I learned from reading it. The covers will be added to this post, and will also be inContinue reading “Cover project 2009: photos of book covers”
Better iPhone earphones
A work post, this – at the end of last year, Dennis bought Bit-Tech, and this year, Custom PC and Bit will be working together on quite a few projects. The plan is to share a lot of what we do behind the scenes to come up with articles suited to print and articles thatContinue reading “Better iPhone earphones”
Overview of the new F1 rules for 2009
Courtesy of Red Bull Racing, and narrated by Sebastian Vettel, here’s a handy CG animation of the main differences between 2008’s F1 cars and the 2009 models. [via James Allen.]
Ebooks are inevitable
Three Ebooks links: 1. ArsTechnica posted an excellent article on ‘the once and future Ebook‘ that’s worth reading start to finish. Suffers perhaps from some Apple fanboyism (I’m not 100% convinced as it claims, that the iPhone/iPod have such huge potential as Ebook readers, certainly not in their current state, and it seems a bitContinue reading “Ebooks are inevitable”
The End of Mr Y
The End Of Mr. Y is a book that gets your attention from the moment you first see it; and by book, I don’t mean plot, characters, or writing (although all these will later work their charms), but book as physical object. A lump of paper1. The cover is a bright red, dominated by swirlingContinue reading “The End of Mr Y”
I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition
‘I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition’ – John Lennon, after the Beatles’ final gig, which took place on the roof of the HQ of Apple Corps, just over 38 years ago. What’s surprising is considering all the fights that hadContinue reading “I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition”
The Wired Jester 