Last night, as I mentioned previously we went to see “Oh! What a Night” in the Cork Opera House. In one word? Wow!
It’s a highly-charged musical set in 1970’s New York, mostly in a disco called Inferno and the auditioning for a movie about a new phenomenon called “disco dancing”!
The musical is all about the music, dancing, clothes and atmosphere of the 70s and it’s a funky look into an age past! The audience was dancing in the aisles by the end of the show, people were clapping along to the beat and not all the singing was from the stage!
If it comes to your city go see it. It’s only in Cork for a week, probably going on (or been to) Dublin, so go see it if you get a chance!
Author Archives: Donncha
Referer Checking Now Ignoring Bots!
I’ve added code to the referer checking to check for a few common bots:
- “http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp”
- “http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html”
- “http://www.blogdigger.com/”
- “http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm”
- “Feedster, LLC.”
- “http://www.breakingblogs.com/timbo_bot.html”
- “fastbuzz.com”
- “http://www.pubsub.com/”
- “http://www.bloglines.com”
- “http://www.drupal.org/”
- “Ask Jeeves/Teoma”
- “ia_archiver”
- “http://minutillo.com/steve/feedonfeeds/”
There are others but these showed up in the access logs of the last few minutes!
Sorry guys, your referer lists will be a lot shorter now!
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
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!)