Photography by Mike Baker » Where is my mind?

Edinburgh Park railway station has dark chocolate brown tiles on the walls, which makes the help point stand out in stark contrast.

It’s raining again, time for another macro!

Taken in a little square near Notre Dame, Paris, where children played on this sculpture, climbing over the hand.

My photography club selected this as one of twenty pictures to enter in an inter-club competition that was held last night, scoring a grand (drum roll) 13/20. It was a useful exercise, although the comments didn’t actually give me any advice on how I could have scored any better. I always enjoy looking at other people’s photos though. Interestingly, my three standout favourites were all black and white.

Every year a Christmas Fair sets up on Princes Street in Edinburgh, with a helter skelter, ferris wheel and other rides. The lights in the trees add to the atmosphere.

Sometimes I am amused by childish things…

As reported by blogto.

The internet is full of Leopard reviews, most saying the same things with the same screenshots. Ars Technica has gone in-depth, with a really good explanation of how things have changed under the user-interface. John Siracusa has written the definitive Leopard review for techies.

I’ve become an avid reader of The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. With a tagline of “Dude, I invented the friggin iPhone. Have you heard of it?” and an About Me that says “I love beautiful objects. I love creating them. Negative people upset me.”, you can guess it’s irreverent style. It’s extremely well written, and I suspect the author comes quite close to the thoughts of his real-life counterpart at times.

I learned some useful things about Macs today:-

• You can break the boot process when installing Linux as a dual-boot machine just as easily as on a PC (doh!)
• The install CDs for Mac OS X don’t auto-boot when you turn on your Mac with them in the drive (double doh!)
• The small booklet that comes with a MacBook doesn’t tell you what to do when everything goes pear-shaped.
• To make the install CD boot, hold down the ‘c’ key when powering up (c for cd?)
• Making your Mac bootable again is then simply a matter of using the disk utility which is on the Tools menu once your Mac has booted

Hooray for the internet and having access to another machine.

A complete list of Apple Mac boot key combos.