Occupational Thoughts -

On Friday I followed another tutorial on the Pain.NET forums. This one was to simulate the depth of field effect, to make things easy I used a Halo screenshot. Starting with this: I cut it into it’s seperate objects: Then applied a greyscale gradient to each object (note that the Spartan is our focal point [...]

This post is about video editing, it may be boring for some people, but bear with me. I have encountered some problems with editing MP4 files in the H.264 video format and AAC audio format from my Flip camcorder. These problems occur on the suite I use: Serif MoviePlus X3 Takes epic amounts of processing power, the [...]

The overall result of this observation is that if you like Halo you should definitely play ODST. I advise against buying it now as it seems like little more than an expensive expansion to Halo 3 but root around for a second-hand copy in the bargain bin in a few months time. The new gameplay [...]

Over the past week (in addition to school and other things) I’ve taken an interest in the UK Pirate Party. They’re a relatively small, single-issue party who campaign for the reform of copyright laws. They were officially registered as a party on the 11th August, just over 3 months ago. I have previous experience with small parties; I’ve [...]

In writing this I’m setting out with the statement that I actually really like Sixth-Form. But. I was promised a completely relaxed work ethic, in part due to the fact that I don’t actually have to be there. What I have found is not what I expected. It’s not unfair to say that the teachers [...]

I was surprised to find that the police force who controlled the Rage Against New Labour protest in fact have a Twitter account. They posted the following messages on the 27th: How’s that for transparency? My footage of that protest is currently encoding and will be up as soon as I sort out my video archive. The [...]