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Brief iPhone Notes

Mar 21 2010 Published by Desmond Elliott under Uncategorized

  • Contact details for previous landlord
  • Address history
  • “Watch Everything is Illuminated” [not watched]
  • Attempt at a morning routine with time allocated for tasks such as exercise, washing, and eating [not adhered to]
  • Employment History
  • MacBook pricing options
  • List of shows to see at Edinburgh International Festival 2009
  • Advice on buying an SLR
  • Unknown phone number
  • Electricity and Gas meter readings
  • Vacuum filter product number

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Photoshop Disasters

Feb 13 2010 Published by Desmond Elliott under Uncategorized

“Have you seen a truly awful piece of Photoshop work? Clumsy manipulation, senseless comping, lazy cloning and thoughtless retouching are our bread and butter. And yes, deep down, we love Photoshop.”

Photoshop Disasters

How can you not love seeing some Escher furniture or wheelless aeroplane?

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Hello, it’s Amazon.

Jan 09 2010 Published by Desmond Elliott under Uncategorized

Just because I was looking at the website for Christmas presents and then for some gadgets doesn’t mean I need to be emailed almost every day in December…

Amazon Emails

There must be a better indicator of whether someone is likely to purchase an item than “looked at it”.

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A little bit of Hong Kong

Nov 10 2009 Published by Desmond Elliott under Uncategorized

I recently had the pleasure of visiting Hong Kong for a week while presenting a poster at the 18th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. In short, Hong Kong was an intense experience. The population density was overwhelming and the 25C temperature in November caught me by surprise.

Kowloon

Dragon outside Jumbo Floating Restaurant

Smaller Temple at Ngong Ping

Juxtaposition at Nan Lian Garden in Kowloon

Kowloon from The Peak

You can see more photographs in the Flickr set.

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A Few Favourite Albums

Sep 27 2009 Published by Desmond Elliott under Uncategorized

I didn’t want to create an ordered list of my favourite albums from this decade accompanied by pretentious paragraphs explaining my choices so I abandoned that idea and decided to just put up the album covers and forgo the reasons.

Sung Tongs

Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again

Bonus: Clicking on an album cover will lead you to a legal stream of the album so you can check it out.

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