[17 Jul 2010 | No Comment | 187 views]
John Grisham – The Firm

Synopsis
The law student was young and had his dreams. He’d qualified third in his class at Harvard, now offers poured in from every law firm in America.
The firm was small, but well respected. They were prepared to match, and then exceed, Mitch’s wildest dreams, eighty thousand a year, a BMW and a low-interest mortgage.
Soon the house, the car and the job were his. Then the nightmares begin: the secret files, the bugs in the new bedroom, the mysterious …

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Musings, Web Links »

[4 Aug 2010 | No Comment | 94 views]

These are my web picks for July 2nd through August 4th:

YouTube – iPhone4 vs HTC Evo – A brilliantly funny conversation of a typical iPhone customer with a mobile salesman. “I don’t care” what the HTC does “I want an iPhone” even if its a brick!
Google Me social networking rumour is “very real” – Reckons rival Facebook’s ex CTO | TechEye – Google to start a facebook rival, it makes a lot of sense, but will it work? Google could have a second mover advantage and take heed of …

Books, Featured, Headline »

[17 Jul 2010 | No Comment | 187 views]
John Grisham – The Firm

Synopsis
The law student was young and had his dreams. He’d qualified third in his class at Harvard, now offers poured in from every law firm in America.
The firm was small, but well respected. They were prepared to match, and then exceed, Mitch’s wildest dreams, eighty thousand a year, a BMW and a low-interest mortgage.
Soon the house, the car and the job were his. Then the nightmares begin: the secret files, the bugs in the new bedroom, the mysterious …

Books »

[27 Jun 2010 | No Comment | 110 views]

Synposis
In the Micronesian Islands, a top-secret US undersea lab vanishes . . .
At the same time, off Bermuda, a bathysphere operated by NUMA and overseen by Kurt Austin is attacked and becomes stranded half a mile below the surface. Only quick thinking and bold action will save the crew – which includes the head of a certain, now-missing undersea lab – from a watery grave.
Austin is convinced both events are connected, and he puts NUMA on the case. Soon he’s uncovering some hideous …

Photography »

[3 May 2010 | 2 Comments | 110 views]

I’ve often admired “HDR Photos” and this bank holiday weekend have had time to learn how it’s done and have a go myself!  HDR stands for High Dynamic Range Imagery.  It gives a greater dynamic range of luminance’s between light and dark which allows a more accurate representation of intensity levels found in real scenes.
To do this I used the AEB (Auto Exposure Bracketing) on my camera to take 3 photos at different levels of exposure in rapid succession.  I hand held the camera but should have probably used a …

Books, eCommerce »

[7 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 113 views]

Boo hoo is a gripping, insider’s account of the rise and fall of this most controversial of internet startups – a global, online retailer of sports and designer clothes.  ‘Such a dazzling version of the boo phenomenon that as readers turn the pages they will be rooting for the company to survive even though they know the story ends in disaster.’ The Sunday Times
Boo Hoo is the story of Boo.com a online designer clothing store founded in 1998 by Ernst Malmsten, Kajsa Leander and Patrik Hedelin.  …