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High up on the coastal road outside Burntisland, feeling one hour older. Thanks, BST.
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Happy New Year!
View of Edinburgh from Calton Hill, 1 January 2012 (click pic to enlarge).
This year, I spent New Year in Edinburgh with friends, which was a marked improvement over last year (sitting in a darkened room, listening to a Sly and the Family Stone LP. Actually, that was pretty good, too, in its own way.)
Hope everyone has a great year, and fingers crossed the 2012 Doomsday prophecy nuts aren't right!
Facebook logo-eye stock photos are annoying
You might have noticed that the eye with a Facebook logo on it is becoming something of a trope within the media, especially in news reports about how Facebook is bad.
Unless I'm missing something, though, all these pictures are fundamentally wrong. Take a look at my own 'Facebook eye' photo below. What this picture shows, apart from the fact that I'm never going to be an eye model, is that when you look at something on a screen, the mirror image is reflected in your eye. Duh:
Also, I was sitting about 10cm from a full-screen Facebook logo on a 13" screen to achieve this. So this leads me to think that the people in the stock photos must be sitting with their noses pressed up against a cinema screen, browsing the web in reverse.
I don't think I can trust stock photography ever again.