Salthill, Galway.
Where's me culture? It's in Cork!
Cork City is the European Capital of Culture 2005 and despite a small budget available to the organisers they’re putting on a bit of a show this year!
Not everyone agrees with their program of activities and so the Where’s Me Culture? movement quickly became an “alternative” to the official festivities. As they put it themselves:
We believe that responsibility for celebrating Cork as a cultural city is neither the sole preserve nor the sole responsibility of the Cork 2005 office. Cultural expression is the responsibility of all.
We believe that imagination and energy and a willingness to help each other is more important than a large budget.
We believe in the cultural importance of having fun.
A walk has been organised for this weekend, and more details are available on their site. I won’t be there, but enjoy it, the Line is a lovely walk and should be fun!
If you have photographs of Cork, you might be interested in Cork Space.com. It’s a project that, “seeks to provide a space in which the urban environment of Cork can be explored, questioned and discussed through the use of images, audio recordings and moving images.” Expect to find my images up there as soon as I get around to uploading them!
(Thanks Donal for pointing me at WMC and CorkSpace!)
Mhemphis TechTeaM – defaced sites list
This Google Search lists lots of the sites defaced by “Mhemphis of TechTeaM”.
autopano-sift: making panoramas fun
autopano-sift Looks like a great program for lining up panoramas. You need to use it alongside Hugin, Panotools and Enblend to stitch your photos together.
It’s a .net application written in C# so I’m glad I installed Mono last week!! There’s a great tutorial written by Rob Park that I’ll look over this weekend. I have a panorama of Kylemore Abbey to stitch together!
There's a cat trapped in my monitor!!!
Aww, this cat is so cute! I had to view the swf file itself because Firefox only displayed a small portion of the movie so try that if the same happens to you!
EDIT: urls updated!
ATI Cards and Corrupted Text
This is new to me, but according to these setup tips my “Fixed Frequency Monitor” can’t handle the frequencies bandied about by my new ATI graphics card. It’s mildly annoying and sounds like a bit of a cop out as I haven’t seen anything similar on lower end cards!
When you’re in DOS mode or text mode and If you notice slight flickering around some characters, particularly “r”, then this could be the problem. The only solution is to upgrade your monitor or shut your eyes until you boot into a graphical GUI!
I wonder if that explains the following strange character corruption that appears during bootup:
Oh, Debian testing detects SATA drives without a hitch. 🙂
Later… Even in the GUI there’s corruption. Does this happen to other Radeon 9×00 users? The multi-colour lines in the image below appear randomly but seems to be worse when high-contrast web pages are displayed. This happens when using either the proprietary driver from ATI or the open source one in XFree86. Time to get on to Elara again.
Later Still… Opinion on #linux on irc.linux.ie is that the graphics card is damaged as 6 others who have ATI Radeon 9000 series cards have had no problems. I faxed them a return form 20 minutes ago and am waiting a response now.
Where Is Your Home?
Why don’t almost all the blogspot hosted blogs I’ve come across have a clear “Home” link or have the blog name linked to the root address of the site? It must be something to do with the default template at blogger.com is it?
The Sports Mad Guy
What if sports is your life but local facilities are somewhat lacking? Watch this animation to see what one enterprising French man did.. boxing in a butcher’s, running at the grocers, “cycling” on the road.. hehe
My Life In Film
From BBC3 comes My Life in Film, a great little comedy that will hopefully go beyond the 6 episodes already shot. Here’s a review of it. You can watch clips on the BBC website linked above.
It looks like there’s one more episode so make sure to set it up in your Sky personal planner, or set all your alarm clocks to go off at 9.30pm next Sunday night and tune in to BBC2!
Oops!
This is the “oops” list! A series of photographs of unfortunate aviation events. Here’s a dramatic example!
