Below are various improvements to the only family photograph that we have.  Bill took it back in 2005, however he must have moved because the image in the original is slightly blurred - that is what I am trying to improve. 

I have tried various techniques in the Gimp and I think that with more work the grain merge technique looks the most promising - what do think?  I know it is too light but I think with more work I can correct this.  Which effort should I spend most time on?  I also tried cropping the image slightly in two of the images to remove the date...again what do you think?  I know that sharpening will enhance even the blurred edges so I think that's out and I will also reduce the reflections in the glasses.

Please note these images are very low quality, so please don't bother printing them.

With all the coverage of TPB in the media at the present time perhaps now is the time to look at alternatives.  I know that TPB is not going away soon whilst the appeals process is ongoing and the servers have been relocated to the Netherlands (and alternatives will pop-up) - but take a look at oneswarm. It's available for Linux as well as windows.  I think some kind of anomynity giving client will be the future of p2p, whether it's oneswarm or some other piece of software - it will happen.

Oneswarm is a friend-to-friend 'darknet' file sharing protocol so will probably take off in university campuses first, you can watch a video here that explains oneswarm.

I have put a new theme on this website - it's called moleskine and is supposed to be in the style of the Moleskine notebooks - I think it's kinda steampunk . 

Why?  Just because I fancied a change.  I have altered the theme not to underline any links and also changed the home logo at the top of this page to a hat.  I am going to perfect my php and css skills so that I can create themes myself - so one day there will be a RAM Theme.

I don't care that:

I was reading my rss feeds the other day and came across this website which led me onto this one. I now tie my shoe laces with Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot.

It doesn't take any longer and is far more secure - and I don't have to retie my shoes during the day.

Last Saturday I spent the afternoon out with Mike photographing the sea front in Southend. Here are a few photos.