Jonathan

Building a bottle battery

If you read my blog, you’ll have seen my recent review of my RSP Asteri 2 bike lights. I talked about making a bottle battery, and now I have. Unfortunately I forgot to take photos after the first couple of steps but never mind. What you’ll need I used the following parts, but you canContinue reading “Building a bottle battery”

Autumn sunset

Autumn this year seems to have brought with it some fantastic sunsets looking south from Kingswood, Bristol. I would like to point out that the colours of these photos have not been enhanced on the computer. What you see is exactly what I downloaded from the camera.

A weekend in Hereford

Hannah and I went to Hereford this weekend. The weather was nice, and we had a really nice time relaxing. I managed a few photos too. The golden Autumn sunlight cast a lovely glow over the city. First we visited the cathedral. It seemed rude to take photos inside, but I managed this photo ofContinue reading “A weekend in Hereford”

Photoshop disasters

In the past, I’ve enjoyed reading Photoshop Disasters. Today I was delighted to spot my own Photoshop Disaster in Dorothy Perkins. Looks to me as though they’ve just chopped her fingers off to resemble pockets.

Halifax

I have a secondary current account with Halifax, which I use for paying bills and rent.Today I received a letter from them. Here’s an extract: From 6th December 2009 we’ll no longer be paying the 0.1% AER/gross interest we pay you on the balance in your account, or charging you debit interest on any overdraftContinue reading “Halifax”

Various Nagios plugins

I’ve now written several Nagios plugins and submitted them all to MonitoringExchange. Here’s a quick summary: check_temper for monitoring the temperature with a TEMPer USB thermometer check_kernel for checking that the currently running kernel on an RPM-based system is the most recent installed kernel (not necessarily the latest available kernel in the repository) check_aql_balance forContinue reading “Various Nagios plugins”

A short walk at sunset

I love the odd colours and coarse film grain in this shot of Cossham hospital. I think it looks rather retro.

Some 35mm macro shots

I took these photos with a 35-70mm lens, using an additional macro lens. A pink lily Cotton reels A crystal of aragonite Unfortunately the developing lab treated my negatives pretty badly, as I wrote about on my blog earlier today. Here’s a close-up of some of the scratches on the second aragonite photo, which IContinue reading “Some 35mm macro shots”

Good morning!

Nothing like a hot cup of coffee as you watch the sun rise on an Autumn morning.

A nice evening for portraits

The light just before sunset was beautiful and golden today. What’s more, it was streaming into our balcony doors, so I got my camera out. Hana took one of me, too.