Quick post from L.A.

More of a personal jotter really, but this wasn’t exactly high up in my search results. Having problems editing some video in Premiere Pro CS3 — whenever I tried to preview, I got an error message which read “Premiere Pro has encountered an error” then gave a path to a file called MonitorMixer.cpp-153. Googling lead… Continue reading Quick post from L.A.

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Looking back, moving forward, tripping over

Today is Bill Gates’s last day as chairman of Microsoft, and they’ve modified their homepage accordingly. But they’ve chosen “looking back, moving forward” as the strapline, and when you look in one direction and move in another, most times you strip over a kerb or walk into a lamppost. Tsk. Click for bigger

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Things you learn *after* the purchase

A quick list of things I’ve learned/things I’ll mean to remember but actually forget next time I’m buying: 1. Not everything that seems to work will actually work. Ask about specifics.2. You haven’t bought enough white emulsion.3. Beg/steal/borrow industrial degreaser. Saves time and scrubbing in the kitchen4. It won’t look better once it’s had a… Continue reading Things you learn *after* the purchase

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Moved!

So I’ve bought a flat and moved in. Yay for me. Now to spend the rest of my life painting…

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