Simon Sillison posted a great article on making forms more usable. I use a few of the techniques already but I didn’t know others. A comment left on his site indicates problems with browsers other than Mozilla, so maybe it’s about time you all upgrade! 😉
Monthly Archives: January 2004
Guide the laser..
Guide the laser and light up the bulbs! This is a clone of an ancient c64 game I loved. As pron puts it, “like the c64 the playing was important, not the graphics.”
In other news, Ireland’s tech industry goes down the tubes with the proliferation of online Flash games. heh.
Cork Bloggers
Dave O’Neill is another blogger from Cork. I took a quick look at his geourl page and there’s loads of others around here too! 🙂
One of these days I’ll get around to setting up GeoURL on my blog.
Pics of the Day
Photosig has a couple of images that I liked this morning:
- Nightriding – I have to try something like this. It’s surreal. Liam created a nightime photo of his own. I took a few photos last night, and may post a few later!
- Trine – In this day and age of computer post processing this is a great example of what can be done, without a computer!
- Brothers – great portrait of 3 kids. Good DOF, and well composed!
I'm a rabbit!
As seen on Today FM this afternoon, it seems I was born in the year of the rabbit,
Pingvin
How far can you bat the poor penguin? My best is 320.5 so far. (Flash required!)
Snappin' the stage
There are several good tips in this article on stage photography. It’ll certainly come in useful in the future! The one tip I hadn’t thought of was using centre weighted or spot metering to calculate the exposure settings.
To that I might add using AE lock if the lighting is any way static. Of course, that situation rarely occurs but I’ll give it a go the next time I’m shooting TKOH!
CD Wow Backs down
As previously reported here, IRMA sued CD Wow to stop them importing cheap music CDs into Ireland. This morning on the radio I heard that sad news that CD Wow have basically given up and they will add €3 to the price of every music CD bought by someone resident in Ireland. The Register has an update on that as it’s not available on rte.ie yet. A representative of CD Wow UK spoke on Radio 1 this morning and was quizzed about the size of the Irish market to which he dithered and was very uncomfortable answering. In the end he admitted that in the context of a global market, Ireland is small fry (my words, not his!) and he hoped a consumer group would do their fighting for them.
Of course, by the looks of things, they have enough trouble in the UK, and Germany without causing a fuss in Ireland too.
The news prompted a length discussion on the ILUG this afternoon, even branching into how generous music performers are with their music.
Ah sure, it doesn’t bother Internet users, don’t we all download our music illegally anyway?
Five killed in separate road crashes
There were 2 terrible road accidents this morning. One of them was just outside Cahir, in Co. Tipperary. I drove past there dozens of times in the past and I was shocked to hear the news.
Link Death, your personal Internet Archive?
I hate when links die and the articles, insights, and information that once lived somewhere is lost. Via the “A Year Ago” link to the left, I came across this post again. It’s a photography article on using an external flash but it’s gone now. grrr.
I think I need to start using that DVD burner at home and archive stuff I link to. Especially tutorials, and once-off articles that I really got some value out of.