• AcornsYesterday I went for my usual walk in the Forest, but I noticed something different. All around me I heard the sound of acorns crashing through the leaves above me and landing on the ground around me.

    I’ve been aware of Acorns falling for the last week or so. But I’ve only seen them lying on the ground. It occurred to me that acorns will fall according to a standard distribution curve. There will be one moment when it might be dangerous to enter an oak wood because the maximum amount of acorns will be falling. If you enter at that time you have the highest chance of being hit by falling acorns.

    Some thing should be done! We should employ acorn fall supervisors who can re-route you down safer paths through groves of different trees, which drop their fruits at different times. I suppose I could wear a hard hat.

  • This video website business is quite confusing for a non-tech head! I just noticed that my videos are having to completely download before they start playing. Well, I’ve solved the problem.

    How To Make Your Video Downloads Start Playing Immediately:

    I’d rejigged my output to use h.264 mp4 video. Unfortunately Quicktime puts the indexing info at the end of the video so you have to wait ’til it’s all in the player before it knows what to do. The solution is really simple and free.

    Get the Adobe AIR application called QTIndexSwapper that I found on Renaun Erickson’s blog. It is free to download and it is very easy to use. You just browse for the MP4 file you want and within seconds,produces a wonderful a new file that does the job! Good luck with your videos and if you have no idea what I’m talking about, then relax in the knowledge that you live a much simpler and far less hassled life than me!

  • I know, they are really creepy, what with those dead, soulless eyes and, “couldn’t care who I eat,” attitude. Anyway, various people have asked for me to show how to draw sharks, so here’s the video. Enjoy-y-y-y-argh!