I have always been a fervent admirer of the team at The Foundry and indeed of the company they have built over the last decade and a bit.

As a core team of Vizual Effects software developer visionaries Simon and Bruno have grown a team of people and taken the foundry on a steady upward trajectory. However like all people that are great at what they do, at their core they still get exited and curious and enthusiastic about solving typical gritty digital image processing problems. A typical example of this is the work that they have been quietly doing on the rolling shutter problem on digital motion cameras with CMOS sensors.

Read Simons post here – wonderful stuff

Although I have been running the beta verson for some months I just installed the windows 7 RC1 candidate onto a decent machine - an HPxw8400 machine with the nvidia 3700 graphics card. I am simply bowled over by the performance. The network browsing is superfast, and the installation itself took about 40 minutes from boot to completion. Applications simply fly at the moment, I am quite delighted. Win7 rocks!

As I write this on the 29th of April the world is gripped by the expectation of a flu pandemic. Several questions remain...will the virus prove as lethal elsewhere as it has in Mexico? Why does it seem more virulent there than in the US? The UK like everywhere else has been gripped by reams of print and the tabloids in particular bear unhelpful headlines such as "Flu virus could affect millions". Yes sure, but that is not particularly helpful is it? Pundits and health officials writing on the potential problems in Britain have identified the tube network in particular as a "breeding ground" for the virus. Yep it sure will be if it comes to that. I use this breeding ground every day, and try my best to avoid traveling at peak hour because during those times the trains are rammed. Yes really rammed. This morning I was late, and was on a rammed victoria line train. I was standing near the door. Headlines about the flu pandemic were on every newspaper front page on every commuters mind. A woman near me sneezed violently. There was a collective holding of breath, and a fleeting thought of potential infection in the confined rattling carriage. Struggling to hold back another fit he sneezed again. Moments later the train pulled into the station at my stop. The doors opened. Then someone quite uncharacteristically, in a gentle bright and beautifully clear voice voice said to her "bless you". It really made me pause for thought. Bless us all indeed.

hello again...this is a post from Marsedit. Not as good as livewriter, but it will do- now I can get to updating this blog again which has become almost derelict becuase of my lack of ability to post from anywhere and anytime... Here's to updates thanks graham