A few slightly creepy shots from me.
Black Jack Justice
I love the 1940′s detective style of comics, and Black Jack Justice hit the spot for me. You’ll see it in some of our latest photos. Anyway, I took a few quick shots specifically of the cover shown below.
Life as candid
Emily & I have been working hard on photographing a few scenes we’ve staged. All photos posted have been shot and edited in our flat. The copyright for them obviously belongs to us. I’ve finished editing my first few photos, some of which were taken by Emily. I’ll continue to release more of my shots/edits and we …
Caged
Filmed in Glasgow on an iPhone 4S. Hopefully I’m not breaking any privacy laws… Put together using Final Cut Pro. Sounds from freesound.org.
JavaScript conundrum
For the last two and a half months, my brain has been working hard on a JavaScript conundrum. I’ve found it to be a tough one, it’s intangible and theoretical and all the things that an easy problem isn’t, and what’s worse, it’s still unsolved. For the last two years I have worked hard on …
xa.js demo
xa.js is a simplistic lightweight javascript application framework that I’ve been developing lately. It’s on github, and I’ve also put it up on http://xajs.chalmershouse.co.uk/. There’s a fun demo of something very basic developing using the framework on http://xajs.chalmershouse.co.uk/demo/ Pull requests welcome!
Javascript is_array, isArray & typeof array check
There are a lot of solutions out there that cover checking if an object is in fact, an array. I was surprised to notice that most of them are in fact, utter rubbish and either inefficient or won’t work in edge cases. Here are two functions from the xa.js framework which I attach to a …
xa.js open source javascript framework
A new open source simplistic and lightweight javascript application framework is out in the wild! http://xajs.chalmershouse.com/ http://github.com/skippychalmers/xa.js/ Over the years I developed a specific pattern and structure / architecture for coding my javascript applications. I’ve had great success using it in it’s utter infancy on bestlollipop.co.uk, codadiquesto.com and many other sites. My approach was one …
Real women!
‘Introducing our gorgeous ultimo REAL women’ states the poster in Debenhams of 10 women clad in ‘ultimo’ lingerie perfectly moulded to their shapely frames. I wonder at the use of the word ‘real’ here. Swivelling on the spot reveals numerous posters of size 6 models in various lingerie styles that are extremely flattering on their …
Perceptions of security: morality by numbers
After having attempted to define the roles of different governmental models in our own perceptions of security and indeed our wellbeing as a human race, we can now look closer at religion, an older, simpler and more archaic form of human governance and organisation. The position of a religious individual in regards to where they …
Starting a collection of useful utilities
Just a quick one from me, I’ve still got to publish another section of my discussion on security perceptions but wanted to let you know about a little project I’ve just kick started. I often spend a lot of time using simple, purpose driven and useful tools on the internet, such as md5 encoders, unix …
Perceptions of security
Personality categories: There are two types of people in the world. Both types of people are, when their actions are distilled, seeking security in some form. Our first type of person seeks security via the control of others, either collectively or by their own making. Our last type seek security by placing themselves in positions …
Nintendo 3DS – Glasgow Pre-release
So I tagged along to the Nintendo 3DS pre-release event in Glasgow. I’m not really a Nintendo fan, nor did I really care about the 3DS as a gaming platform at all – I literally just went to get a nosy at a 3D screen that didn’t require glasses. They started us off with a …
My Educational Philosophy
I haven’t written for ages…busy busy. But…I am back…this post is actually a cop-out post that I have simply lifted from the educational philosophy section of my online summary development paper I have had to write for Uni… enjoy:)
JS – Get Email Addresses
The idea of this wee snippet is to search for all email addresses on a page. If, for instance you wanted to get a list of all the email addresses on the STV contact page then you could, after dragging the script below to your bookmarks bar and naming it something appropriate like ‘get emails’, …
New Year Old You
I love the sound that an apple makes when you catch it in your hand, it appeals to my “cool” notions, my ideals of a “chilled” individual. Similarly, I used to love walking about with a gym towel around my neck, a symbol of my”cool” and exercise friendly lifestyle. I also love the idea of …
Glasgow Nativity Closed
Deep in this city’s very own heart, the true meaning of Christmas has been fenced about, neglected and pushed aside in favour of the glittering lights of hot dog stalls, slides and swings.
Mince Pies
I have adapted an Ainsley Harriott recipe to make these mince pies. The quantities listed here make about 18 pies! Enjoy…
Recipes | Introduction
Growing up I was gastronomically blessed; my parents are both excellent chefs and, furthermore, they spent hours patiently passing on their skills to their children. While I was living at home I never took that much pleasure in cooking main courses; my expertise lay in cake baking and desserts. My Mother kindly allowed me free …
Weight-watch
At the beginning of November as part of my University course (BEd, Primary Education) I completed a week’s observation in a Primary 5 class, in preparation for my 6 week placement at the end of February. The Monday morning of that week I had been absolutely mortified to discover that both sets of ‘placement trousers’ …