A Rebel in Paris and Backrounds are two articles I saw at the Photography Blog. They stand out because almost every other post on his blog is product announcements. Kinda pointless as I already have a camera I’m happy with (oh, and can’t afford to upgrade anyway!)
Monthly Archives: February 2004
Obscure Firefox References and Features
Justin lists some of the features of the new Firefox browser that may appear in the future..
Stealth mode: using specially malformed headers, Firefox will load your web pages and web servers will be unable to log your vists.
My own favourite extension is the Digger extension. This allows you to dig down through a URL easily!
Vivid Light Photography #33
The latest issue of this online magazine is out now. Looks like a couple of interesting articles to look at this month.
Why C Is Not My Favourite Programming Language
I got about half way through this article before I realised I’m really not interested in it. If I was coding a demo or something that was performance critical then I’d use C/C++ possibly with a dash of ASM but otherwise, give me the garbage collecting, lots of data types, memory checking, higher level languages any day. 🙂
Chicago Air And Sea Show, 2003
Photos from the Chicago Air And Sea Show last August. It was an absolutely beautiful day but there was a lot of haze in the air making capturing clear images very difficult! I’ll add futher comments later but I’m tired and need to get to bed now!
Development stuff
Introduction to the Firebird Database – A brief introduction, but good reading if you haven’t used it (like me!)
Custom Underlines – oh cute! CSS underlining of links using graphics!
Mozilla Firefox – The Browser, Reloaded
1200 houses burn in South Africa
Just heard a spokesman for the Nial Mellon Township Challenge speak on the radio. Some 1200 of the buildins in a township burnt down at the weekend, 5000 people are now homeless.Some of these buildings were constructed by Irish builders who volunteered their efforts last December for free! It’s a shame to see this happen but hopefully they can get this up and running again.
*smile*
Gulp! This photo isn’t quite the smile you’d expect!
A warning about PayPal
This story is frightening if you use PayPal. There’s a long thread to go with the story so some useful information may come up. (I’m on dial-up, can’t afford to read through the whole lot!)