May 2004 – Page 3 – Something Odd!

Photo Essays in Spain

Two articles on Luminous Landscape with photos taken in Spain:

Minolta A2 on Location – A review of the Minolta A2. I was pleasantly surprised when I read the author’s comment on the EVF of the camera. Electronic viewfinders simply aren’t good enough to display a scene properly. After learning about histograms previously I put it to use a few days ago and it certainly makes a marked difference to the exposure of a photograph!
The Seville Fair – Great photos and commentary. I want to go travelling again!

Purely by coincidence. the photo of the day is from one of the train stations in Madrid.

The Rasterbator – blow up your images!

I haven’t tried The Rasterbator yet but to judge by the gallery it creates some great looking blow-ups! Here’s a short article and lots of comments (seems to be problems getting it to work unfortunately..)

The Langer Song

You want to download the langer song? This is what some people in Cork sound like. Both ordinary and posh, and it’s available at thesraid.com, just scroll down a little to the “Langer” entry. Plenty of people looking for it!
‘Course I don’t sound like them! My accent’s mostly flat and foreigners can easily understand me! 🙂

gulp

I came across this photo of a bomb technician after listening to a radio interview with Graeme Goldsworthy, a deminer with International Demining Group so it gave me the creeps to think of the potentially dangerous scene the photographer captured!

Keeping The Flat Clean: Living Space As User Interface

Should I put this under humour or house keeping? Or general, as I don’t have a house keeping category.
I’ve just moved house, I haven’t had time to build up (much) clutter again. I’d comment more but Owen’s reading. Hey housemate! 🙂

Understanding RAW Files. Light Dawns

Here’s a really good explanation of what RAW files are.
Now I wish my camera could take raw shots more than ever as it would be extraordinarily handy to be able to adjust the white balance, and other settings after the fact.
Of course, I think I’d be buying a new 120GB hardrive sooner rather than later perhaps.

Search for "Jew"

I possibly need a “Search Engine” category. Hmm, especially if I put anything down about my SEO experiences! 😉
Anyhow, via the Google Blog comes an article explaining why anti-Semitic websites showed up in a search for the word Jew. In the interest of fairness, I also search for the words Christian, Muslim, Church of Ireland, Protestant and Catholic. A quick glance shows that most (all?) of the top-ranked sites listed on those searches are ones in favour of the searched for religion/church.
Why can’t we have dissenting voices? Is all good and pearly white in the world again?

DomainKeys – encrypted and verified email

Now this looks very interesting – DomainKeys is a method for verifying email. It uses a public/private key infrastructure to verify the domain an email was sent from. Public keys are distributed by DNS.
Yahoo! has been granted a patent on the framework which annoys some but their license terms seems rather liberal, even allowing one to “yodel” it if that’s how your smtp works!
More: Jeremy, Simon, and Justin.
Several excellent comments on Jeremy’s site, including a link to Sender Policy Framework, a very similar technique already in use by the likes of AOL, Altavista and others. (I knew I’d seen idea this before!)

Oh! What a Night

Well, I’m off to the theatre again! I’m going to see Oh! What a Night tomorrow night and it looks like a great show! More on whazon.com and eventguide.ie.

Right click – interesting site?

I open all my links in new tabs usually, but sometimes my mouse scrolls the page when I hit middle-mouse-button, and I get some completely different website .. Here’s one I discovered earlier. Looks interesting.