I saw an interesting TED talk recently – Tim Harford talking about how frustration can make us more creative. Worth a listen, especially if you want to be creative and feel frustrated. Press on through!
31 January 2016
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Month: January 2016
30 January 2016
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Garden Birdwatch
Every year the RSPB runs a survey called the Big Garden Birdwatch and this is the weekend. Jane did the watching for us this morning, spending an hour keeping her eyes peeled and noting the highest number reached of any … Continue reading
29 January 2016
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Yeti
Jane and I had dinner out at the Yeti restaurant on Cowley Road last night. We’d wanted to try something new with a leaning towards (a) something towards Chinese or Indian cuisine and (b) something towards our end of town. … Continue reading
28 January 2016
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When Computers Start to Laugh…
Yesterday I started reading The Mechanism of the Mind by Edward de Bono. When I had picked it up from the library last week I thought it was a new book but it turns out to only be a new … Continue reading
27 January 2016
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Looking Down on the Garden – January 2016
Around Oxford, the winter has been more wet than cold so it was a bit misleading to catch my shots for my ongoing visual survey project on a frosty morning last week: The stand of Cornus (left hand side, in … Continue reading
26 January 2016
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Top of the Password Pops
Is your password still 123456? If so, you’ve got a large amount of company, sharing the slot for the most common password which remains unchanged from last year, according to a recently released summary from SplashID. The long-term favourite password … Continue reading
25 January 2016
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Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face
You can get a translation for that title. As you might have guessed, it signifies the annual celebration of Burns’ Night and is the first line of Robert Burns poem “Address to a Haggis”. No prizes guessing what’s on the … Continue reading
24 January 2016
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The Longbow Puzzle
I don’t think I’ve spent too many sleepless nights worrying about why many medieval nations stuck with using crossbows when England switched to the superior longbow. In fact, as much as I’d thought about it at all, I’d assumed that … Continue reading
23 January 2016
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Running Round the Woods
I spent a lot of my formative years running round bits of woodland, normally with bits of stick that would stand in as either guns or swords. Do people do that nowadays or is it too politically insensitive or likely … Continue reading
22 January 2016
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Driftwood
I had a creative session with Ableton last night, exploring how to integrate lines played on my bass with material from the clips library and also experimenting with creating and tweaking effects racks. The result is ‘Driftwood’: [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/243132262″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” … Continue reading