Mike Deere

Birds on bikes.

That's good to hear, makes up for the dreadful title. I'll have to go see it. "Gothika" was the same, good film but shit name.

Exactly! Why else would they leave their children unattended? I certainly wouldn't if I had kids. You'd have to be pretty desperate to leave them alone at night, desperate enough to want to clear your name of an accidental death?

Hmm, a choice of fine feminine figure or a stick I could do my ironing on...

Hmm, not many photos of me as I'm usually behind the lens! But I found a recent one of me in the ghetto of Ashqelon, literally a few minutes from Gaza. It's on the border of Israel / Gaza Strip.

I took my time setting that shot up, did everything by the book to make sure it came out how I wanted it. It's five shots stitched together manually in Photoshop, each shot taken with the exact same exposure in manual mode after metering the whole scene and taking an average... Just to make sure it all matched up while facing the sun and to get a good balance. Polarising filter too to keep things nice. Shots were taken in quick succession to make sure that the lighting didn't change as the clouds moved by, also spent a while making sure the tripod was dead level so that the pan head could be moved accurately at speed. It's Llangorse Lake, Mid Wales. Just to the right of the hut you can see Pen-Y-Fan and Corn Du, the former being the highest mountain in Southern Britain. God I'm a nerd.

Still can't properly decide, there's one or two others screaming at me as I post this. But this'll have to do.

I was totally wasted last night, for the first time in a long time. Best way to stop a hangover: - Throw up before sleeping - Wake up and go straight out for a half-hour walk in the rain @ 8am Worked for me!

Err... Here we go!

Word, I have more hair than this now. Again.

Argh landscapes, the one thing I'm going to have a hard time choosing. Too many.

Who the HELL said that Mac's can't get viruses? There's currently somewhere in the region of 700-800 viruses that affect Macintosh computers according to McAfee. Ok it's a fraction of the number of viruses that affect PCs but it's still a large figure, especially when you consider the market share of each. Surely that means Apple are committing false advertising?

Try using a recovery program such as ISObuster or SanDisk's File Recovery software, both work really well and if there's any recoverable data then they'll get it.

My avatar is a pixel-art character of me... It blinks occasionally, kinda catches you unawares in a way that (at first) makes you wonder if it blinked or not.

The first one is the best, although lose the crap blue background in favour of a simple black and white.

Optics company Nikon own the registered trademark "Ultimate Slug Hunter."

That ZIP file I put up a link to is only about 2-3 months old, so it's not exactly old-skool!

Not true! I got fed up with the crap quality of compressed audio which made me want to go out and buy CDs rather than download.

Saturation... hurts... eyes! Apart from that some good pics, the last one is win!

Here's a .RAR (zip) file that contains a good selection of drum and bass, put together as an introduction for people who are new to the genre. It was compiled by a member of the old MBUK forum and contains a total of 47 tracks. Clicky. Type the letters in the box to start the download, it's just a security feature so that it can't be automated by bots downloading everything,

Why would I want to change? That just makes me want to stay with them in all honesty.

I'd have to agree, I miss my old 10.5mm every day. Right now though, I'm praying that Nikon's new body due for announcement in Autumn will be full frame. If it is I'll be buying the 14mm f/2.8 to accompany it.

Remember kids! The longer your tele-lens the bigger your penis is.

Female comedians indeed... There's only one I've ever found funny, and that's Karen Taylor who has recently had a series on BBC 3. I guess it's the Beebs way of apologising for appalling Little Miss Joceline.

Nope, the Zeiss one is real.