A version of Queen and David Bowie’s Under Pressure you might not have heard before. You can hear some talking in the background. From the title I thought this was made during the recording of the song but comments on this video and another video say it’s from radio interviews. Anyone know? Here’s a great article on the making of the song. Though the band sounds lighthearted enough in the studio sessions, the songwriting, May remembers, was fraught with tension. “It was very hard,” he said in 2008, “because you already had four precocious boys and David, who was precocious […]
Development
Howto disable syntax highlighting in Vimdiff
X > Y >> Z Where X is the population of developers who read this blog, Y is those that use Vim and Z is those that use vimdiff regularly. I guess this post will only be useful to a tiny minority of my readers, but to them it might be the best thing they’ve read all year. (Well, it is 2016, right? It’s been a weird year.) Vimdiff allows you to open two files in Vim and side by side compare them, pushing changes from one file to another. I’ve been using it as long as I’ve been working on […]
Music
Somebody to Love
As a joke a few days ago I shared an awful cover of a Queen song on Facebook, so in apology I give you Marc Martel singing the beautiful Queen song, “Somebody to Love”. And as a bonus here’s an amazing rendition of Nessun Dorma. Wow, just wow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sXLwLRXkEs All this found at the same time I find out that Freddie Mercury’s mother, Jer Bulsara has died at the age of 94. RIP. It's with great sadness that we have to tell you, that freddies wonderful Mother Jer has passed away at the age of 94. — Queen Fan Club […]
Photos
Scan Photos with your Phone
Google’s new PhotoScan app (it’s on iOS too) is pretty good. Here’s a photo of the Marina in Cork my Dad took sometime in the nineties, probably. I’ll spare you the family photos! 🙂 There’s a lengthy Reddit thread on it too.
Ireland
Aerial Ireland
A tourist, Tim Viltz, travelling through Ireland shows us just how beautiful our country is in this video created from drone footage shot by a Phantom 4. I don’t recognise most of the locations though. Only one way to fix that, travel! Via Reddit.
Photography
Spots at f/22
It might be time to clean the sensor of my camera again. The circles in the photo above are the spots I removed in Lightroom. They’re caused by little specks of dirt or dust on the camera sensor. Thankfully they’re really only visible when shooting with a closed down aperture like f/22. At f/8 I see nothing! The aperture of a lens describes how big the hole in the lens is that lets light in to the camera sensor or film. Paradoxically, small f numbers are big holes, so f/1.8 lets in lots of light, while f/22 creates a tiny […]