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The way the office works these days…
September 30, 2011 on 2:36 pm | In Technology | No CommentsThe office setting of 2011 is a lot different to the office setting I walked into as a new graduated secretary back in 1979. Back then there were no computors – not like today’s anyway – and word processors were huge awkward things that were ssslllooowww to say the least. There were no mobile phones, nothing interactive at all and conferences were held face to face in rooms.
Nowadays conferences are held miles apart via the internet and this is where a conference call price comparison can come in handy to your office business. They do cost and need to be budgeted for – especially as many businesses need to use this technology and keep an eye of economy at the same time.
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Astronomy – you don’t always need a telescope!
July 2, 2011 on 8:00 am | In Culture, Technology | No CommentsWe are avid amateur astronomers in our family and often travel to viewings held by the association we belong to around the countryside. The rural skies are best because you don’t get the light interference from traffic lights, buildings etc. We have a couple of serious telescopes for viewing the planets but last Xmas we decided to invest in a pair of really good astronomical binoculars for occasions when the moon is doing something interesting. Lugging the telescopes around in the car can be a bit of a pain at times so we were looking for something more portable.
We got a pair of binoculars and can highly recommend them although they most certainly are NOT for solar viewings – you must bear that in mind. There are many brands available for astronomy usage – among them nikon monarch binoculars and the more serious type for real enthusiasts but we found they did the job brilliantly when we attended the recent lunar eclipse. Don’t assume you wont look the real deal without a telescope, of course you need one for anything beyond the moon, but the binoculars did the trick for us perfectly.
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Cinematic set design has come a long way since Scarlett kissed Rhett
May 22, 2011 on 10:51 am | In Technology | No CommentsIf you have seen Gone with the Wind you will have marvelled at the beautiful house, Tara, and the wonderful set designs of the day. There was quite a lot of trickery involved however and what you saw on screen was not what you actually got. The front of Tara, for example, was a layer of shots of different things. The front porch with it’s interior plantation shutters was actually the front of David Selznick’s office building superimposed with other images added to create the splendor that was Tara.
The scene where Scarlett walks through the masses of injured soldiers was ahead of it’s time in that shots of the ‘injured’ extras were recreated and superimposed to create the image of teeming thousands of men. Something done today as it would cost a fortune to film such scenes with real people. The colour process used to film was also a new innovation – GWTW might have been a story of times past, but in many ways it was ahead of it’s own time.
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