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Finally started the process of selection and printing the ARPS Portfollio

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Guthlac

Well it has taken me all day but I have finally got around to make a selection print. This is a mock up of the final selection and it will be used to see if the images selected work well as a selection. It will also be used to see if the images match the statement. However, in truth the statement will be written with the final selection in mind so in it is also part of the creative process – helping me to edit down my statement to 150 words. Actually this is a bit of a lie as I haven’t written a word yet – however one step at a time.

So I have printed this off and will let it dry over night. This will also allow me time to ruminate on the selection. I expect more changes before the final prints are made.

Simon Marchini LRPS

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It is now time to prevaricate

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Guthlac

Deadlines come and deadlines go and they usually motivate me into action. At the moment they are only motivating me into in action and prevarication. I need to have my ARPS portfolio put together and printed by mid august at the latest and so over the next few days I am going to start the process. Actually this is unfair as I have already put quite a bit of work into the process already. However, we are coming to the crunch and I have sit down and make the final choose and print the photographs. All of a sudden I have found new and vitally important things to stop me from doing this, such as writing this blog! The truth is I just can’t face sitting down and doing the work. I know it will get done but getting started is so hard.

Sent from my iPad

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The Time iPad – oh what a circus …

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Guthlac

The Times iPad edition didn’t arrive again and I wasn’t surprised. Perhaps I am feeling tired but it is now becoming a bit of a joke. Yesterday I went to the app page on iTunes and found out that one of the things that might help is if you reboot you iPad. Now this would appear to drive another nail into the coffin of the iPad being a better way of using the Internet, instead this is turning into a rerun of the Amstrad circa 1988. This, of course, is grossly unfair on the iPad as the fault appears to be with the Times app, however, no app gets onto the iPad without Apple’s approval so perhaps there is more going on here.

Anyway, away from the conspiracy theories I did reboot my iPad and guess what the Times iPad edition downloaded straight away. I suppose this is a case of back to the future.

Sent from my iPad

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RHS Flower Show atton Park

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Guthlac

I’ve had a few hours to think about the RHS Tatton Park flower show and the overall impression is ‘…are well um…‘. There were some incredible displays of flowers but there was a huge amount of very expensive tack. Perhaps the most absurd thing I saw was the long queue of people trying to get into the Fortnum and Mason’s over priced tent. Clearly you try and get in there for one upmanship and yet to stand there in a the damp in a vain attempt to get really does look very silly.

As I drove away I felt a tinge of disappointment. Will I go again? I doubt it but it was worth while finding out what it was like.

Simon Marchini LRPS

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Read the emails you idiot!

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Guthlac

Just got back from Tatton Park and found that the blog entries I sent from there had been posted. I couldn’t work out why. Then I reread the email returns from Posterous and found the answer. Because I had posted them from my iPhone rather than this, my ipad or my PC, I had to authorise the the bleeding thing before it was posted. Needless to say when I did this it was posted straight away.

Note to one self READ THE EMAIL! Sent from my iPad

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The Times App

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Guthlac

This just gets stranger and stranger. I can only assume that they are so ashamed, I know that is a strange concept for a News Corp project, about the truly awful performance of the app that they have given we early adopters another 30 days free. That is a total of 60 days, well sort of as the last free 30 days overlapped with the 28 days I had bought and this overlaps with the last free 30 days so it actually means a free 40 days – but that is around ??15 so I suppose this is something.

Clearly they know they have problems with the app – if you go to the app’s entry on iTunes you can quickly see all the faults listed. In short it was launched before all the bugs were ironed out and so we are being used as crash dummies until the app has been sorted out. All in all not a great start for News Corp – I wonder what life behind the pay wall is like?

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Discrimination at Tatton Park

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Guthlac

I wish to register a complant…there are five times the number womens toilets than men. Shock horror! Yet the men still seem to get the job done a lot quicker.

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