A frame can really add to a photo – it’s something I haven’t looked at much, but these two photos, Summer Time and Untitled 1 both use whitespace to good effect! It looks like the subjects are bursting to get out of or squeeze into the frame!
Author Archives: Donncha
RSS Feeds, with Firefox
Simon tried it, so did Kae, now I’m about to try it. Download Firefox and play with the live bookmarks stuff!
Later – Dougal uses Thunderbird to RSS feeds. That’d make more sense for me too. I’m install Thunderbird 0.8 as we speak!
School Days in Mennonite Country
The author has 3 nice photos in this photo essay although his concerns in the last part are something to think about – is it an invasion of privacy and immoral to take these photos? I don’t think so, but I thought the photos could have been much better if the author had been able to photograph the kids from the front instead of shooting their backs and arousing suspicions.
Street photography is almost always difficult and add to that, on a “lonely country road” I can’t imagine any kids who’d stop to have their photograph taken by a stranger..
Foreign Policy: Hating America
Foreign Policy: Hating America
On September 12, 2001, Jean-Marie Colombani, the editor of Le Monde, famously wrote, “Today we are all Americans.” Three years on, it seems that we are all anti-Americans. Hostility to the United States is deeper and broader than at any point in the last 50 years.
(via dangerousmeta)
Online Photo Printing – !Ireland
Here’s a pretty good guide to Online Photo Printing services, but only if you don’t live in Ireland. I covered a few of the Irish outfits a few months ago here. Since then Spectra Photo have increased their prices, but I must check out Bonus Print yet.
Above the Eye of Hurricane Ivan
Wow! This is a dramatic picture of Hurricane Ivan taken from the ISS. Must be a hell of an experience to see such a powerful force of nature from the serene quiet of space!
Now Running WordPress
The site is now running on WordPress. I’m going to get some breakfast.
Much Later – Still problems with feeds. I’m updating tonight to the CVS snapshot of WordPress from this morning so breakages are likely, but hang on in there! We’re almost home!
Later Still – Merging of the CVS version of WordPress is complete. I’ll have to track this as time goes by but it looks to have solved the problems we had earlier! 🙂
stypod – top 10
The Stypod will have “The Top 10 Number Ten Singles Of The Past Ten Years” next week but here’s 3 top 10 singles that came out just a bit too early to include! Couple of good tracks!
Tribute of Light 2004
Here’s a very striking photo of the light pillars in New York on Sept. 11th. Wow!
Moved To Debian Testing
After a few small glitches and problems I have Debian Testing running on my desktop machine at home.
The install process is a lot easier than before and really, I have/had only 2 problems. One was with setting up X – The “generic mouse” entry which pointed at /dev/input/mouse/mice or something didn’t work so I commented that out. The detection of my monitor worked, but it generated mode lines which were a little conservative. I couldn’t get more than 1024×768 on a 19″ monitor! That was easily solved by copying the values from my FC2 install.
The locale setting is a bit screwy too. I tried to get it to understand the Euro symbol by choosing ie_IE@euro (or similar) but now ‘”‘ becomes “#” and “|” becomes “>”! I’m sure there’s an easy fix, and changing the locale settings seem to fix bash/screen sessions but not X. More work to do there!
Anyway, xmms with mp3 support was installed by default, but I noticed mplayer wasn’t there. You can download mplayer packages for Debian here, makes things simple to install!