Down in Robert’s Cove on Monday night. It rained steadily on Tuesday and it’s been showery since.
Asides , General
TomDispatch – Tomgram: The Immoral Relativists of the Bush Administration
TomDispatch – Tomgram: The Immoral Relativists of the Bush Administration
General
Important Events in Human History to 1 BC
Important Events in Human History to 1 BC, or it all happened 5,000 years ago, around tea time.
Humour
Things to do when you’re bored
Are you bored, I’m not. I’m too busy doing interesting stuff to be bored. 🙂 For everyone else who’s bored. take a look at this bumper list of pointless timewasters and relieve the monotony of your life a small bit.
General
The real Batmobile
Great article about the Batmobile! Did anyone else see bits of Chicago in the film? I remember an aerial view of the Wrigley Building and North Bridge, and I could almost swear that the blur of American flags in one chase scene may have been the flags outside Marshall Fields on State Street!
GIMP
Linux Raw Image Management
I’ve steered clear of RAW photography for some time. Maybe it’s the extra few steps required to get a finished product, or the very large file size, or just that “it’s not jpeg!” I changed the quality mode on my 20D to RAW this afternoon and was shocked when it told me that I could only take 79 shots! *gulp* I fired off a shot, of an old Honda parked in front of my car and as I was in a hurry, forgot to do any more. Later on I went searching and found a number of sites: Raw Digital […]
Linux
Firestarter – Linux firewall
I tried Firestarter a few minutes ago and I’m very impressed! It’s a firewall application that makes it easy to modify policies, keep track of who’s knocking and gives a nice summary. Much easier than learning the ins and outs of IP Tables!
Photos
Chicago: From John Hancock to Sears
Issue 34 of “Digital Photographer” magazine has a great feature on cityscapes. One of the photos in it is very similar to one I took while I was in Chicago a few weeks ago.. Canon 20D, 1/4 sec, f/3.5, 18mm, ISO 1600. Hand held The shot in Digital Photographer.
General
T-Engine: Ubiquitous Computing
That T-Engine sounds mad! Computers everywhere talking to each other! I could bring home my camera after a hard day taking shots only to have the photos transfer by wireless comms to my desktop PC when I drop my bag next to my desk! When I’ve been working too long at my PC it could order the kettle downstairs to turn on and then chime a bell when the tea’s made! Ah yes, interesting times ahead! The slashdot discussion has a few more bits, including a better explanation of why i-Tron is better than past attempts at ubiquitous computing.