How far can you bat the poor penguin? My best is 320.5 so far. (Flash required!)
Author Archives: Donncha
Snappin' the stage
There are several good tips in this article on stage photography. It’ll certainly come in useful in the future! The one tip I hadn’t thought of was using centre weighted or spot metering to calculate the exposure settings.
To that I might add using AE lock if the lighting is any way static. Of course, that situation rarely occurs but I’ll give it a go the next time I’m shooting TKOH!
CD Wow Backs down
As previously reported here, IRMA sued CD Wow to stop them importing cheap music CDs into Ireland. This morning on the radio I heard that sad news that CD Wow have basically given up and they will add €3 to the price of every music CD bought by someone resident in Ireland. The Register has an update on that as it’s not available on rte.ie yet. A representative of CD Wow UK spoke on Radio 1 this morning and was quizzed about the size of the Irish market to which he dithered and was very uncomfortable answering. In the end he admitted that in the context of a global market, Ireland is small fry (my words, not his!) and he hoped a consumer group would do their fighting for them.
Of course, by the looks of things, they have enough trouble in the UK, and Germany without causing a fuss in Ireland too.
The news prompted a length discussion on the ILUG this afternoon, even branching into how generous music performers are with their music.
Ah sure, it doesn’t bother Internet users, don’t we all download our music illegally anyway?
Five killed in separate road crashes
There were 2 terrible road accidents this morning. One of them was just outside Cahir, in Co. Tipperary. I drove past there dozens of times in the past and I was shocked to hear the news.
Link Death, your personal Internet Archive?
I hate when links die and the articles, insights, and information that once lived somewhere is lost. Via the “A Year Ago” link to the left, I came across this post again. It’s a photography article on using an external flash but it’s gone now. grrr.
I think I need to start using that DVD burner at home and archive stuff I link to. Especially tutorials, and once-off articles that I really got some value out of.
F*** THE NAZIS, SAYS CHURCHILL'S PARROT
Churchill’s parrot is still alive at the ripe of age of 104 according to this story in the Mirror. She also has a few choice sayings, but you can read the article to find the rest of them out!
Clampers vs Eircom, who'd win?
It looks like the little yellow triangles won this time. In an ironic twist, I’d say that this photo was probably taken with a camera phone too. 🙂
Update – that file disappeared from the ripoffireland.org website, so here it is in all it’s glory..
Anyone hungry? Bagle Anyone? Anyone? Anyone?
(That title was in the best Ferris Bueller tradition – ye’re too young if you don’t know what I’m talking about!) Sorry, can’t help you there, I guess I’m lucky. I’ve only caught 7 copies of the new virus that’s sweeping the world now. I presume that’ll icrease once the USA wakes up shortly!
Topix – more news, and local news
Topix is a new news aggregator, like Google News but it has the ability it dig down to local news. If you live in the USA you can enter your location and find news from your area! It even has news from Ireland too, although I only recognised 2 or 3 of the headlines. Most of the news that’s making headlines at home isn’t represented, but hopefully it’ll improve. One major problem of course is the fact that Irish newspapers don’t provide free access to their archives which is unfortunate. (That’s not a criticism, it’s an observation, the “free lunch” of the Internet is over!)
(via John Battelle)
Ten Mistakes Writers Don't See
This is one list I’ll be going over tonight. I’ve made many of the mistakes contained within and usually I realise I’m making some of them when I run out of steam in a long run-on-sentence that isn’t going anywhere fast and is basically there to fill space. Either that or I get distracted and finish the sentence quickly without