Recent content by freelunch

Thanks, all, for stopping by to say hello. I'm a bit depressed by all this gloomy weather lately. I always carry my Canon IXUS 70 with me, but hardly ever get it out of my pocket in weather like this. To cheer myself up, I've been going over past holidays and the last time I saw the sun! Our...

BoB is currently being shown on BBC 2. Episode 3 tonight (Monday), 11:20. I bought the DVD set a couple years ago. Money well spent. The best WWII story I've ever seen. Made even better by the interviews with the actual men that fought and survived to tell their stories. Tom Hanks and Steven...

I bought a Dell 2408WFP monitor to hook up to my Mac. I am very happy with it, although it took a couple days of tweaking the colour to get a neutral grey. It was too red out of the box. I don't have any calibrating hardware, so just created a colour chart in Photoshop and pushed the buttons...

Ecuadorian folk dancer, Latin Festival, Peckham Rye Common

Type "food stylist" into a search engine and see what pops up. I used to art direct food shots for a fast food chain. We used to go through two hugh boxes of buns to get the perfect one for a shot. Burgers were "cooked" with a blow torch to get the perfect colour. You would not want to eat the...

... freelunch. Hi. I'm a guy who knows how to make a short story long... I bought my first Mac in 1998 and I had to learn how to troubleshoot the thing in a hurry. I found myself spending spending far too much time on various Mac help sites, and eventually became quite competent at...