Learning from failure: aerial mapping I consider myself to have a lot of experience with aerial photography,
fitness A brief assessment of the R-Shield Respilon A new company, R-Shield, launched a Kickstarter to make a wearable air
suunto Features missing from the Suunto Spartan range Suunto pulled through (perhaps…) a ‘replatforming’, and are merrily selling their Spartan line of watches. This started with the Ultra…
Swimming with the Arc’Teryx Drypack 25 A few years ago, I was on a kayaking trip with a former Royal Marine: he described his fourteen years of service as fourteen years of…
Camping at BUMM1 Overlooking Lake Sonoma is Bummer Hill, which has two hike-to campgrounds on it, BUMM1 and BUMM2. All recreation.gov tells the visitor…
Vegan Crêpe Adapted from a recipe I wrote in 2000, adapted from another recipe and so on, because vegans do it better.
Tyler Durden: the Robin Hood of the Iago character? By now, most people should know of the Paper Street Soap Factory, and its sole proprietor, Tyler Durden. Mr. Durden wants to help people…
The Spectre of Change: moving with the TAD Spectre 22L and the Talon Guide trousers The products that Triple Aught Design have been changing recently: it started with the hood of the Raptor, and continued with the Protocol…
Getting wet and staying dry in the Triple Aught Design Raptor Hoodie Reviewing the TAD Raptor Hoddie, in wind, snow, and the wet, and on a bike
The DJI Osmo+: a review of a shambles Whilst pursuing better video, I obtained first a DJI Osmo Mobile, and after returning that, a DJI Osmo+. Here’s what happened.
The disruptive DxO One When photography started, it was a case of exposing plates to light in order to change them. Today, the principle still exists, except that…
Of Bedrolls and Picnic Blankets When Prometheus Design Worx announced their technical picnic blanket, I was somewhere