A tale of two steamers. The cost of live streaming on the Internet has come down considerably in the last few years. Access to new technologies such as the Blackmagic ATEM Switcher has created a world in which everyone has access to create broadcast quality television from anywhere. From twitch…

Let me tell you a story. For about three months now I’ve been trying to do a very, simple, but complex thing: Produce an entire video show of an Odd Salon event, splicing both the presenter’s audio/video together with a live camera feed, so that we can produce a show…

tl;dr — I don’t care, just show me the photos. A few weeks ago I completed a 3,000km Safari trip around Namibia with an amazing guide (thanks Brian, from Namibia tracks and trails!), my wife, and friends. …

Update: The Sharpen card failed to write part way through an important photography trip, and then bricked itself on a format. Don’t buy it. Recently, I travelled to Amsterdam and I made the foolish mistake of leaving my CF card in my reader, thousands of miles away in San Francisco. …

A couple of days ago someone asked me what my day-carry looks like, and I replied, “Well, I have many different day carries, depending on what I’m working on that day.” So, here’s my typical carry for a Live show, something I do quite often. I’m either running sound, lights…

Let’s talk about the sheer comedy that is Virtru, an “encrypted mail provider” You can send an “Encrypted” mail with them to multiple recipients. They will then “encrypt” the mail, presumably in their system. A recipient can log into to Virtru using email (WTF) and authenticate their email account by…

I’ve always been mildly afraid of the sea. Sometimes I feel that we were never meant to be in the ocean. Recently, I’ve been trying to SCUBA, and my early memories keep coming back to me in force. Don’t get me wrong; I want this. …

On the way back from a trip to Oahu, we missed our flight. The number of non-stop, non-insane flights heading back from the Hawaiian islands to San Francisco is an incredibly small number, around four per day. Redirecting us same-day meant going into OAK instead SFO and an expensive cab…

It’s interesting to be writing this on Medium, which was started by Ev Williams, one of the founders of Twitter, and formerly of Odeo. Odeo’s business model was all around podcasting. It didn’t do so well, but out of the failure of their podcasting business, came Twitter, invented by Noah…