Jan 19, 2012

Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! – http://www.fightforthefuture.org/pipa

PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites– they just have to convince a judge that the site is “dedicated to copyright infringement.”

The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that’s for a fix that won’t work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.

Photography

Jan 8, 2012

Luke

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Baby Sitting Holly – Totally crazy in the bath!

Baby Sitting Holly – Totally crazy in the bath!, originally uploaded by eVo photo.

One of my favorite photos ever I think.

Hope you like it too.

Please check out http://evophoto.co.uk/ That’s my photography business website.

I’m available for all kinds of work from portraits to events.

Nov 27, 2011

Luke

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BT Infinity FTTC or Be Broadband ADSL?

I have a dilemma / a first world problem.

My current broadband supplier, Be Broadband is great but I can’t see them offering me a fast FTTC connection any time soon. I could really do with better speeds for the work I do.

I could switch to an unlimited* BT Infinity product which would provide much better speeds (up and down). I’m just not sure if I should switch to BT when I know that Be Broadband provide a good service.

Reasons to stay with Be include:

Good customer service
Good community forums
Great user-group with unofficial stats and news
A one month rolling contract

Reasons to jump ship to BT Infinity:

Much faster downloads and uploads (6.5Mb/s currently to around 35Mb/s download and 1Mb/s upload currently to around 10Mb/s upload)

An 18 month contract with BT really puts me off as does their bad reputation. Also, don’t feel I can fully trust BT not to turn over details if I happen to allegedly download something that may be frowned upon by the authorities.

Have you had any experience of BT Infinity good or bad?

*fair usage policy applies


	
		
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EDIT: I switched to Plus.net. Have been connected for around 12 hours now and it’s been a rock solid stable connection.

I’m hoping my upload speed will improve a bit over time but I’m happy enough. The only other thing is remembering that it’s not unlimited so downloads will have to happen at night when it doesn’t eat into my allowance.

Photography

Nov 24, 2011

Luke

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See Things Differently

A new simple, clean design for the landing page of my Facebook Fan page for photography ( evophoto.co.uk )

Music Photography

Nov 15, 2011

Luke

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Peter Andre Lights Switch-On in Warrington » eVo photo – Photography by Luke Addison

On Friday the 18 November 2011, I will be the official photographer for the Golden Square Shopping Centre (Warrington) Christmas light switch-on event.