Another diabetes-related gadget. I often use the Freestyle Libre system for monitoring my glucose levels. But that’s not the gadget I’m talking about. The Libre has a sensor that’s attached to my arm for two weeks, and a reader that downloads from that sensor via NFC when it’s waved over it. …
If you’ve checked articles on my blog over the years you will have only seen occasional mention of the fact that I have diabetes, usually in relation to topics such as needing to fit my medical supplies in my luggage. The fact that I have diabetes is not something I …
Well actually it is. But Complete Failure is definitely not! In my previous work on computer systems and backup procedures, the complete failure of a data backup would mean a huge financial cost. But individual devices are always going to fail eventually, so we always designed the systems with redundancy …
With the recent arrival of Canon’s new 5D Mark IV it was time to see how it was going to deal with my cards. Those of you who have photographed alongside me in the field (such as on our LuminOdyssey workshops) may have noticed that I pay particular attention to …
Yesterday the latest Canon DSLR hit the streets: the EOS 5D Mark IV. One of the selling points of this camera for action photographers is that it can run at 7 frames per second (7 fps). However in my testing this seems to be a hollow claim! The only way …
Not surprisingly, I still get folks asking me about the choice to use (or not use) DNG files. I last wrote an article about this way back in 2011, but my own use of DNGs has changed a little over the past 5 years so I figured it was about time for an …
This past weekend saw the end of Daylight Saving Time (DST) in all the Australian states except Queensland, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory. So we set our clocks back and hour and got an extra hour of sleep on Sunday morning. Many of our clocks automatically updated without us having …
