Just spent the last 2 hours taking well over 200 photos of the band “King of Hearts” “Pleasure Dome” playing in Silver Springs. Great party, atmosphere, talent(!!) and I’m wrecked tired! Good thing I had extra batteries for my flash as lighting conditions for photography were as you might expect – difficult and contstantly changing strobes and stage lighting! A tripod was invaluable tonight!
Expect a few of the photos to make it online here in the next few days!
Author Archives: Donncha
Nice photo gallery site
Hmm, smugmug.com has a nice gallery layout. Hawker’s photo galleries is an example I came across on STF. Drill down into each gallery – thumbnails are printed alongside a larger image. Click on any thumbnail and the page reloads with the large image visible to the right of the thumbnails. Cool.
F828 Problems?
Seems that some members of STF are having problems with their new F828 cameras. 🙁 It appears that not everyone is having those problems, but the camera firmware is user upgradeable so that may fix the problems!
The Iraqi Information Minister?
It looks like the Iraqi Information Minister is still around.
If you love Macs..
My, my! What a shocking review of the Mac! Surely he jests! 🙂
Thunderbird vs Kmail
My first mail client was the old Netscape 4.x mail client. I used that for many years and was very happy with it.
I played around with Balsa, Evolution and other clients but I wasn’t happy with any of them.
Then I tried Kmail, the KDE mail client and I was blown away. It’s been my mail client of choice for the last year and a bit.
Out of curiosity I tried Thunderbird, the new Mozilla based mail client. It’s nice, it’s almost there for me except for:
- When I click on a folder I want the newest message to be displayed. There is an option to “Remember last message seen” but it doesn’t seem to work as advertised all the time.
- I like to delete messages by hitting “d”. My mouse is in my right hand and I don’t want to move it back to the keyboard to hit “Delete”.
- When I’m reading a message I want to press cursor-down to scroll through the message. Pressing that key in Thunderbird goes on to the next message, the next folder, or it can scroll the message, depending on which pane of the window is selected. I should probably hit “n” to go on to the next unread message.
Thunderbird is good, it’s getting much better fast, but it’s got a bit to go yet.
My Life, my thoughts, my actions?
About 10 weeks ago my girlfriend and I broke up. I’m not one for expressing myself in a public forum about my personal life so the matter has remained mostly offline.
On the advice of a very good friend I took to writing my thoughts and feelings down in a place where nobody will see them. Dead tree format’s too insecure so I’ve made a lot of use of Open Office!
Now I’m trying to figure out why writing things down helped so much! Maybe it’s just a coincidence, or perhaps it’s because I can write down what I wouldn’t tell anyone? I think it may be because by writing I need to concentrate. I need to face bare facts, and not have half forgotten conversations over a pint in a pub.
Hehe. I used to think my emotions, feelings and motivations were clear to me as I was “master of my own destiny” but the more I explore and examine the more I realise how little I know about what makes me tick!
Turkey anyone?
Hoffmania has a great picture of Bush, no, err, Saddam, no, Bush, serving turkey to the troops! hehe.
Today's Bike Run
I was in town this afternoon shopping and as I queued at the ATM in Paul St. I heard an almighty roar from Patrick St. As soon as I got my money I rushed down to be confronted with a large group of bikes making their way down the main thoroughfare of the city!
As a side-note, this is the first time I tried the “shoot and pan” trick with my camera. I set the exposure time to 1/30 second and as the bikes went past I panned the camera as I took the shot. Most of the time it didn’t work too well, but the picture of Santa above came out well IMO!
Linux demoscene stuff
Great! I didn’t know about lnxscene.org at all! They’ve lots of demo related news up there, and links to Linux demos. hmm. Must download!
Update! – of course, if you’re using an Nvidia graphics card you really should go to their site for their closed source drivers, or if you use Fedora Linux you should have a look here for rpms!
Go look for “Paper Rose of Texas” by Fit. Good 64k demo!