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If Google Images does it, is it legal?
Share If you pop down to the comments at an earlier post, you’ll find that a chap called Mark was very upset I used a thumbnail (100 pixels wide, 67 high) of one of his photos. In fact, I’ve done...
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Retrograde steps for our cellphones
Share Last week, our company’s Nokia 2730 Classics arrived as part of a contract with Telstra Clear, of whom we’ve been a customer since the 1980s. They are a reminder of how technology is regressing....
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Roy Axe gives a sincere look at his career
Share Keith Adams is well known to many motorheads out there. We probably encountered him initially at his excellent AROnline, formerly The Unofficial Austin–Rover Resource. More recently, some of us...
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Christchurch in happier times
Share Christchurch, as it once was. These are some of the images that appeared on my old Vox blog (or, what is left of that). The Cathedral, as shot from my room at the Millennium Hotel The Holiday Inn...
View ArticleShanghai, 1987 v. 2013
Share Originally on my Tumblog, but the graphic wouldn’t fit properly with the template. Amazing. There’s an entire generation who will have no concept of Shanghai being a city without skyscrapers.
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Meizu M2 Note: welcome to a Google-free mid-2010s
Share Other than for the landline, I’ve never bought a phone before. Each cellphone has come as a result of a company plan or a loyalty gift from the telco, but when my Huawei Ascend Y200 began needing...
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Snapped on Instagram
Share This wasn’t taken by me, but by another car enthusiast, who goes by Kiwi_cars on Instagram. They (I don’t know the gender though one shadow in one photo suggests it could be a male) photograph...
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Paging Dr Libby
Share Update: scroll down for a happy ending to this! Even famous people can slip up. Two posts on Instagram, one of them mine, the other an hour later on Dr Libby Weaver’s account. If you’d like a...
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Don’t rely on an algorithm to choose your brand ambassadors
Here’s a cautionary tale found by Lucire travel editor Stanley Moss. His words: ‘Photographer Dmitry Kostyukov recently experienced a rich dialogue with an algorithm belonging to a Scandinavian...
View ArticleFacebook exploits COVID-19 for profit, and viral thoughts
A lot of the world’s population has come together in the fight against COVID-19. Except Facebook, of course, who is exploiting the virus for profit. Facebook has done well in the first quarter of 2020...
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The first world problems of the cellphone (lockdown edition)
This Pukerua Bay Tardis was the last thing I shot before the cellphone’s camera and gallery failed First world problems: the cellphone. Right now my partner and I have half a phone each, so between...
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November 2020 gallery
Now that I have an image gallery plug-in (New Image Gallery) for the miscellaneous stuff that normally goes on NewTumbl, the question is whether these should appear as posts or pages. Let’s try posts...
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December 2020 gallery
Here are the images that have piqued my interest for December 2020. For November’s gallery, click here (all gallery posts are here). And for why I started this, here’s my earlier post on this blog, and...
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All you need is one NewTumbl user to undo management goodwill
This is a comment (with my reply, in reverse chronology) from a NewTumbl user, Thewonderfulo, who often posts about the site’s rating system. I’ve no idea if it’s official, but it certainly passes...
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April 2021 gallery
Here are April 2021’s images. I append to this gallery through the month. .all-images { padding-top: 10px !important; padding-bottom: 15px !important; } #image_gallery_4909 .thumbnail { width: 100%...
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May 2021 gallery
Here are May 2021’s images—aides-mémoires, photos of interest, and miscellaneous items. I append to this gallery through the month. .all-images { padding-top: 10px !important; padding-bottom: 15px...
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December 2021 gallery
Here are December 2021’s images—aides-mémoires, photos of interest, and miscellaneous items. I append to this gallery through the month. .all-images { padding-top: 10px !important; padding-bottom:...
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January 2022 gallery
Here are January 2022’s images—aides-mémoires, photos of interest, and miscellaneous items. I append to this gallery through the month. .all-images { padding-top: 10px !important; padding-bottom:...
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You know my name
Never gave them my name yet they knew! (In Chinese, not in English.) I know I could still stick this in the gallery, but I want to figure out a way to show my personal photos separately. Maybe a...
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March 2022 gallery
Now we are on the new server, here are March 2022’s images—aides-mémoires, photos of interest, and miscellaneous items. I append to this gallery through the month. .all-images { padding-top: 10px...
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