It’s only Adam Fucking Wintle. Never heard of him? Me either.

I made a poo joke.

We like tiramisu.

On the way to and from a meeting this morning, the world created some beautiful light for me to take advantage of, so I did.

I’ve always wanted to capture the quintissentially British red postbox (and phonebox, but that’s by-the-by) but it always seems really cheesy to make it the main focus of an image, so here it is vying for attention.

Another example of Southampton’s glorious architecture. It’s clear that cab drivers in their wisdom do not like this style, so this is an ode to that glorious and emotive man.

My favourite Rush album, I think.

I decided on Friday that I wanted to give film photography a go. There’s something about the results from a film camera that seem so natural and unaffected and I love that. After trawling the amazing Ken Rockwell’s site for a day (I must donate to this man, and if you use Nikon, so must you), I set my heart on a Nikon FE and began watching eBay for them. There weren’t too many, but there seemed to be some excellent examples so I quickly got really excited about it. I even bought some film! Upon unboxing said film, Charlotte delighted in telling me that she was surprised at my foray into film, as the rolls contain gelatine. My heart hasn’t sunk quite so low in some time (yes, a great indication of how easy I have life, but it’s really all relative!), and I simply had to find some vegan-friendly (my non-consumption of any animal-death-derived products isn’t really characteristic of vegetarians) film. Turns out, there’s no such thing, so that killed that!

I have, however, resolved to shoot like a film photographer. As all users of digital cameras, I am occasionally guilty of chimping, an act that I find repulsive, but occasionally useful (especially in low-light!). I am now giving this up in favour of trusting my instincts. On top of this, I will not be processing images (unless they absolutely need white balance or a touch of levels) to see if I can emulate a more natural look to my photos.

Why? Because I can (hopefully).

Fatass.

I know it’s childish, but I’m quite childish

Yes; seven weeks, yes; too young to be out, yes; it’s kinda my responsibility to point it out, no; I didn’t.

This is one cute puppy, but social standings dictated that I say nothing about this unjabbed puppy being off her lead in a park that’s getting to the point where we might stop going because of the filthy fucking animals who just can’t pick up after themselves. I hope she’s ok, she’s a precocious little scamp.

y’know how I know we’re not in the Matrix?

I just hope the former owner of this managed to remove himself before the frost began to set in. If you think a tongue on an icy lolly is painful…

I’ve seen on the Versions Google group, there’s a python script for integrating Versions with MacVim diff, but because Versions doesn’t appear to be completely contextual when it comes to executing the script, I was getting the GUI load with none of my .vimrc stuff, so it was no good really.

I tried to write a PHP script to do this, as that’s what I’m most familiar with, but I also hit this hurdle so it was time to dust off my (formerly almost nonexistant) bash knowledge to try and get this done properly. I believe I’ve come up with a fix.

When writing this, I came across two problems. One being that Versions doesn’t escape space characters in the arguments is passes to your script, so it’s not just a simple case of export HOME=”/your/home”; mvim -d $@; that gives you at least 3 files to play with, so I’ve /tried/ to be a bit clever and parse what I think is a file into an array and use it as arguments. It’s not terribly elegant, but it works and I’ve been using it a couple of days.

The only issue is that you’ll have to change the path to your home directory in the script, because I don’t know of a way to detect it. If there is one, please let me know!

Download the attached zip, chmod +x and put it in your ~/Library/Application Support/Versions/Compare Scripts/ folder, restart Versions, then you should see it as an option in your File Comparison dropdown.

To use this with git, I kept the file the same, and then git config –global diff.tool /Users/Me/Library/Application Support/Versions/Compare Scripts/mvimd.sh and it works great with that too. Go me.