“In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.”
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Sigma 18-200 lens has arrived!
My Sigma 18-200 lens arrived this afternoon after much reloading of An Post’s tracking site! Images later but I think this will be a good “carry around” lens to replace my 18-55 kits lens.
Much much later.. if you’d like to see how the lens performs, take a look at the Sigma 18-200 category on my photoblog!
WPMU Updates
Here’s a brief summary of what’s been happening.
The Holy Grail of PHP?
What is the Holy Grail? Depends on who you ask. Some may think that it’s the object orientated “Ruby on Rails” but others still use functional coding. There’s room for everyone.
This combination of Smarty, PHP and Ajax is interesting. There are a few links in the comments to other PHP toolkits including PHP on Trax which is based on the same idea as the previously mentioned Rails project.
Must study and try out later.
Kmymoney – financial tracking software
Pimp Your Firefox – SEO Extensions Edition
Lots of Firefox extensions that I must try out.
Blended Exposures Revisted
DP&I.com: Blended Exposures Revisted – neat method of getting a little more dynamic range from your photos. Not suer if the GIMP can create a luminosity mask but similar methods can be used to get the same effect.
String Tripod
string tripod – I might try this as I could tie the string to my small portable tripod quite easily!
Screensaver vs Movies
If you use mplayer to play your movies then add this line to ~/.mplayer/config to turn off Xscreensaver. Much better than hitting CTRL every few minutes!
# Write your default config options here!
stop-xscreensaver=1
Web Application Security Reviews
John Lim lists some of the requirements for an “enterprise” financial application. I’ve never gone to the lengths John has to pass such an audit but I can imagine it wasn’t easy!