AJS esq.

Blowing bubbles (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 27 May 2012 07:55:49 +0100

Blowing bubbles (Taken with instagram)

At the drive-in (Taken with instagram)

Sat, 19 May 2012 09:44:32 +0100

At the drive-in (Taken with instagram)

Coming through! (Taken with instagram)

Wed, 02 May 2012 11:08:58 +0100

Coming through! (Taken with instagram)

Time for a haircut (Taken with instagram)

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 06:49:22 +0100

Time for a haircut (Taken with instagram)

Off on tour (Taken with instagram)

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 08:32:51 +0100

Off on tour (Taken with instagram)

Unleash the BBQ (Sears catalogue, 1986) (Taken with instagram)

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:25:55 +0100

Unleash the BBQ (Sears catalogue, 1986) (Taken with instagram)

Running Races (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:06:12 +0100

Running Races (Taken with instagram)

Spring has sprung (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:41:32 +0000

Spring has sprung (Taken with instagram)

Taken with instagram

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:38:54 +0000

Taken with instagram

Enjoyable Ikea self-assembly (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:26:37 +0000

Enjoyable Ikea self-assembly (Taken with instagram)

Guard duty (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:22:39 +0000

Guard duty (Taken with instagram)

jaymug: Stormtrooper Happiness

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:48:56 +0000

jaymug:

Stormtrooper Happiness

Looking for ducks (Taken with Instagram at Rufford Abbey Country...

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:02:19 +0000

Looking for ducks (Taken with Instagram at Rufford Abbey Country Park)

Hollywood Still Hates You

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:48:03 +0000

Hollywood Still Hates You:

appleoutsider.com

These people do not get it:
Under a new deal between the two companies, Netflix users won’t just have to wait 56 days to rent Warner Bros. movies on DVD. They’ll have to wait 28 days to add the movies to their queues.
Also under this new…

“[Hollywood] continues to punish the people who play by the rules with an insufferable customer experience. This is the sole reason piracy is up and profits are down: because doing it right totally sucks. And that’s apparently how the studios want it.”

designlanguage: An attempt at redesigning this chart from The...

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:36:18 +0100

designlanguage:

An attempt at redesigning this chart from The Guardian to make the plaintiffs and defendants a bit more clear.

Running Away mk2 - from the PLW vault

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:17:00 +0100

Running Away mk2 - from the PLW vault

marco: Supposed HP Slate prototype video (via John...

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:10:00 +0100

marco:

Supposed HP Slate prototype video (via John Gruber)

Some standouts:

The Ctrl-Alt-Delete hardware button.¹
The booting.
The mouse pointer that appears on screen for a few seconds after the desktop loads, tracking the first couple of touches, before some component presumably loads and tells it to hide. The touch features are obviously just sloppy bolt-ons to Windows.
The little blue dot animation on each touch to give some feedback that it received the touch, presumably because so many applications in Windows aren’t meant to show any sort of touch feedback, because they’re not designed for touch usage. Sounds like a blast.
The browser scrolling performance right before he says, “Very fast.”
Flash running in the browser… otherwise it might be responsive.
Tapping the address bar in Internet Explorer to type a URL doesn’t bring up the on-screen keyboard automatically, or hide it after the URL is entered — he has to hit the keyboard button on the side to show and hide the keyboard manually.

It’s a Windows 7 version of the same old Microsoft Tablet PC form factor, but this time, with a finger instead of a stylus. They used to call these “slate”-type Tablet PCs. They were slaughtered in the market by the “convertible” type that had the flip-around laptop keyboards, because most Windows software simply works much better with a keyboard and trackpad.

This is what happens when a PC hardware company tries to copy an Apple product’s feature checklist without getting it.

I hope that, somehow, this is fake. But I bet it isn’t.

This is comical, but the actual likely intention is less fun than killing hung apps: it’s probably to get through the Windows NT-style “Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to log on” screen, a relic from 1993, which is necessary on tablets presumably because Microsoft’s internal structure, politics, and fragmentation precluded the Tablet PC team from getting the Windows Account Security Or Whatever team to make an exception to this procedure for this edition of Windows 7. ↩

What it means when you say "literally" - The Oatmeal

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:40:35 +0100

What it means when you say "literally" - The Oatmeal

Presentation Zen: A long time ago, before death by PowerPoint

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:30:32 +0100

Presentation Zen: A long time ago, before death by PowerPoint

Chewbacca : Savage Chickens – Cartoons on Sticky Notes by...

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:51:37 +0100

Chewbacca : Savage Chickens – Cartoons on Sticky Notes by Doug Savage