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The Day After The UK Election by Lucy Pepper

Rogi — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:36:21 +0000

The day after the UK election from lucy pepper on Vimeo.

Portugal-based British illustrator Lucy Pepper sums it all up perfectly.

Check out her blog too.

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Dogs And Raisin Toxicity

Rogi — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:40:11 +0000

Back in May 2004 I posted a warning here regarding the dangers of allowing dogs to eat raisins ( ‘Raisin The Alarm – Do Not Poison Your Dogs‘ ). I followed that warning up again last year with another post ( ‘Raisins And Grapes – Toxic For Dogs‘ ) – the reason for the follow-up post being that, depressingly, one of the constant themes seen in searches that arrive at this blog is still people with very sick dogs trying to discover if raisins could be the cause.

I think the two posts above pretty much cover the basic details regarding how dangerous raisins and grapes are for dogs so I won’t reiterate them here in this post. However, by chance the raisins & dogs subject came up in conversation recently and I was pointed to this document - Grapes, raisins and sultanas and other foods toxic to dogs (202Kb .pdf) published by the VPIS (London) Medical Toxicology Unit,

The document contains more useful and detailed information on the subject than you will find anywhere here.

Take care of your dogs – do not allow them to consume grapes or grape derivatives. Few people seem to realise this, so please pass this information on to friends who ‘own’ dogs.

Thanks to Stoney for pointing out the document.

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CrashPlan Backup – Silent Data Corruption?

Rogi — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:54:52 +0000

If you are using CrashPlan as one of your backup solutions, you may want to fully read this blog post and then go on to fully read the related thread on CrashPlan’s user forums.

If you are using CrashPlan as your only backup solution, then you absolutely should follow the links above.

There are some serious questions being asked at CrashPlan by users of the service.

[Update: Note that as of 7th May 2010 this has never been satisfactorily resolved or explained. Crashplan are still evasive as to the possible cause of the failed restores, in my opinion. Due to this I personally have completely stopped using Crashplan on all of my systems. See the updated original blog post and the forum thread for the entire story.]

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Photography Book Now 2010 Competition

Rogi — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:16:18 +0000

Photography Book Now is an international juried self-published book competition, and a celebration of the most creative, most innovative, and finest photography books – and the people behind them.

FAQ’s and further info.

Looks good. Go see.

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Flickr And…More Flickr…

Rogi — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:40:48 +0000

I’m getting to have a large collection of photo odds and ends laying around that don’t seem to fit anywhere, so I have rebooted my Flickr account.

I have also added a new page here to the site that displays the latest ten of my Flickr uploads.

Go Flickr.

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Photo Sites: Minimodi & City Snaps

Rogi — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:02:29 +0000

A couple of great photoblogs I have found recently:

The first is Minimodi from Gothenburg, Sweden. Varied subjects, consistently high quality. Click on each image to go to the following image.

The second is City Snaps from San Francisico. Mostly urban work, also of consistently high quality. A great example is this; Hanging Around, which is very nearly a perfect black and white shot, in my opinion.

There are far too many images between the two for me to possibly point out all of my personal favourites – so grab a coffee, sit back, and go see for yourself.

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The Blair Mystery, Can You Help Solve It?

Rogi — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:00:25 +0000

The UK Guardian’s politics section is running a competition for financial experts in an attempt to unravel Tony Blair’s highly complicated financial arrangements.

Here’s the deal:

We’re offering a prize of an original Steve Bell cartoon for the best explanation of Tony Blair’s opaque financial structures received by 16 December. We’re making the key documents available here. Send us your remarks or annotations; we’ll publish interesting observations, and credit you if you’d like us to. If you’d like to get in touch directly then email david.leigh@guardian.co.uk

The full introduction and background to all of this is here; ‘The Mystery Of Tony Blair’s Finances’ and links to all of the relevant documents you might need are on the sidebar on that page.

Can you shed any light on the mystery? If you can, enquiring minds would love to hear from you.

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Raisins And Grapes = Toxic For Dogs

Rogi — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:33:10 +0000

An important reminder now that the holiday season is approaching; raisins and grapes can kill dogs.

‘This is not to say you need live in fear of your dog keeling over dead if he swallows a grape or two. However, if he downs a handful of grapes or even a smaller amount of raisins, get him to your veterinarian right away. Aggressive treatment with intravenous fluids and close monitoring are his best chance for survival.’

At this time of the year there are often a lot of cakes, biscuits, puddings, deserts and so on around that contain grapes and/or raisins. Do not allow your dog to eat any of these things as grapes and raisins are highly toxic to dogs and can easily kill them.

There are more details here on this old post of mine: Raisin the alarm, do not poison your dogs.

Take heed as dogs will eat foods containing these things given a chance. Make sure that it is a chance they do not get.

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Art For Feet

Rogi — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:05:52 +0000

I was looking around the intertubes for a new pair of boots, and by chance happened across what are probably the most artistic looking shoes and boots that I have ever seen, just one example of which is shown below.

New Rock Boots

They are made by a company named New Rock, which seems to consist of a family of shoemakers in Spain that have been making boots and shoes for several generations.

I have no idea what the prices are like – though I have a feeling that they are probably of the ‘If you need to ask…’ variety – but whatever the cost, for boots that nice looking they are probably worth it.

The only problem I have is that the boots they make are completely impractical for what I need my new boots to do, so I have bought some of these instead.

However, the next time that I am in the market for some new motorcycle boots I know now where I will be buying them from, whatever they cost.

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Books: Critical Thinking And Straw Dogs

Rogi — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:44:57 +0000

I ordered a couple of books from Amazon yesterday, both of which sound quite interesting.

The first is Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking, and the second is Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals.

The first book I just happened to notice whilst wandering around Amazon. The reviews looked good and the subject is always interesting, so I bought it. The second book was recommended to me by tinydoctor on identica.

Hopefully the books will arrive in a week or so.

Incidentally, tinydoctor, aka Dr. Yoshev Omed, has a good blog; ‘Dr Omed’s Tent Show Revival‘. Worth a read.

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