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Octopus BOGOF (6)

04/2/10 •

Octopus Agua Amarga Pulpo
Originally uploaded by AndyRob

Octopus was on offer at “Buy One Get One Free” at the local Asian groceries and fish shop yesterday so I picked up two and cooked one today. I simmered the octopus in a Tom Yum broth then added it to a nice sticky tomato sauce with chunks of [...]

Oystercard PAYG On Main Line Rail in London (3)

03/2/10 •

Oystercard On Mainline Rail at last
Originally uploaded by AndyRob

At last, since 3rd January 2010 we now have the Oystercard Pay As You Go machines installed and working on all main line railway stations in London. This means it’s no longer necessary to make the advance guessing calculation as to whether it’s better to buy a [...]

New Year’s Eve Traditions (2)

31/12/09 •

There are some old New Year’s Eve traditions, like staying at home, drinking and watching Jools Holland’s Hootenanny, and then there are some new ones like posting a list of significant blog posts from the passing year, and failing to make any significant predictions.
So this year it’s Tom Jones, Kasabian, Paolo Nutini, Dizzee Rascal, Lily [...]

Seashore Image Editing Tutorial 5 – Tinting (1)

27/12/09 •

This is the last in my series of five image editing tutorials using Seashore for Mac.
Previous video tutorials have covered:

Layers
The Clone Tool
Colour Select
How to Photograph a Ghost

The topic for this latest video (5)  is “tinting”, a technique for adding or changing colour tones for discrete areas within an image. The screencast video itself was a [...]