A photo of the stamens of a stargazer lily taken with some macro rings that arrived over the weekend from eBay. I’m quite pleased with it.

Click the photo for a larger version. Macro rings are tubes that go between the camera body and the lens and allow you to go for close-up shots without buying [...]

Iain Dale has become an expert on the fairer sex. It would seem, sadly, that Iain Dale’s idea of not being sexist is, er, stereotyping women. Quoth the raven:
In this increasingly presidential age, his softer approach will be judged against the aggression of Gordon Brown. Women do not like great clunking fists. They don’t like [...]

I have an idea for an online deputy leadership hustings. There is, in the form of Bloggers4Labour, a community of Labour activists who blog and who are trying to promote the medium. The Conservative blogosphere grew around the time of Cameron’s election; perhaps the Labour blogosphere should do the same now.
The idea is:
Members of Bloggers4Labour [...]

A Bloggers4Labour meeting took place on Monday evening and it was really rather good. Yes, there was geekery - Labour geekery, computer geekery and even ale geekery - but it was all very good natured. I’m going to do a couple of posts, on Labour blogging and blogging in general,1 but what strikes me is [...]

Include “dalton trumbo on demolishing silly books”, “where does elvemage pk”, “dave cole south london” (a different Dave Cole, as I live north of the river) and “unoriginal name dave cole” (someone knows who I am).
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You can see Guido Fawkes unsuccessfully take on Michael White on Newsnight here at 31′58”.
Guido digs himself a large hole and then jumps into it. Michael White ‘exposed’ Paul De Laire Staines as the man behind Guido Fawkes. Tim Ireland did it a while ago pretty comprehensively and there was someone before that. It shows [...]

Despite his appearing anonymously and without being able to see his face, Michael White just blew him out of the water on live, national TV by announcing that Guido Fawkes is Paul Staines.
More later. Michael White is tearing him into little bits.
I love you Michael White.
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A few additions to the blogroll in no particular order…
Jon Cruddas
Tom Watson
Chicken Yoghurt
Stroppy Blog
Ministry of Truth
Wedding Photography Blog
Digital Photography School Blog
Homeless Camera Adventure
But sadly The Daily, along with LSE SU Comms, are going.
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Guido Fawkes, via Tory Radio, complains about the cost of the person who’s helping out with David Miliband’s blog. Both articles imply in their headlines that £60k is being spent on the civil servant; it is a fraction of this. Firstly, salary and cost to employ are different. Secondly, you need someone who knows whats [...]

It is many years since I have studied Latin, but I am delighted to have found an online newspaper in Latin.
Ad scriptores Epheremis volo agere gratias. Ad blogae mea vinculum adjungavi.
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