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Doonesbury Bushisms
Doonesbury – bound to raise a chuckle or two! (via)
Shadow in the light
This was an experiment. I had the camera in AV mode, and set the aperture small enough that the shutter had to stay open slightly longer to expose the scene correctly. Further processing in the GIMP where I rotated, cropped, and stretched the image before modifying colours to suit. (Canon 20D, 18-55 Kit Lens, 1/12 sec, f/8.0, EV +0.3, 18mm)
Dana Elcar, 'MacGyver' actor dies at 77
Dana Elcar, MacGyver’s boss in the hit series died on Monday at the age of 77. I can only presume there are very few people from 25 and up who never saw MacGyver. It was certainly a favourite of my brothers and I! What that guy could do with a pen knife and duct tape.
Dana Elcar was the balding boss, Pete, who sent MacGyver on his missions. Remember he went blind towards the end of the series? That’s because in real life he suffered from glaucoma, and he lost his sight.
Thanks for all the good times Dana!
(via Dangerousmeta)
The Paparazzi – their story
The News from the Dark Side by Peter Howe – what drives the paparazzi to such lengths to capture grainy pictures of celebrities?
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are only the latest celebs to have their privacy wiped away.
Check out the paparazzi gallery too. Lots of juicy shots of your favourites!
That reminds me, I must post some shots of Kirsti Alley who signed copies of her new book at Borders in Chicago a few weeks ago. She’s looking well!
Photo Forum Topic Generator
Photo Forum Topic Generator – cute, and inflamitory! 🙂
WPMU – Using WordPress Themes
I’m exploring what changes are required so that WPMU can use WordPress themes. Currently, WPMU uses Smarty templates but there’s an order of magnitude more WordPress themes out there so it’d be great if we could use those too. The WP theme engine has become a very flexible and sophisticated templating engine over the past year. Version 1.6 of WordPress will have easy tags, so template authors don’t even have to know PHP to create their templates!
In brief, WPMU can use WordPress themes with little modification, although only read-only. If you want to edit the theme then the theme files have to copied into seperate blog theme folders. The pieces are falling into place and hopefully I can make it an option so that Smarty and WP themes can be mixed on the one host!
ZIGVIEW – World's First Digital Angle Finder
PHP, happy 10th birthday
Jon noticed that PHP is 10 years old today! I’ve been working with PHP for the last 6 or so years.. has it been that long?
The Case Against Coldplay
The New York Times reports on Coldplay’s favourite subject: moaning! Jon – I don’t admire them either, I bought their first album and only listened to it once. *yawn*
(via)
Later.. More on the Coldplay Backlash! I have mixed feelings about them being beaten to the UK No. 1 spot by the Crazy Frog, I can’t imagine a more annoying song than that tune. Thankfully I don’t have to take public transport too often and I’ve been insulated from the worst of teenager’s ringtones.