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!
Digital Darkroom with the GIMP
I can’t believe I never came across this page before. I probably have, but it reminded me to check my colour-depth, and I’m running at 16bit! ugh!
House Guest
Yesterday morning I helped Owen bring some stuff in from his car and when I turned around to close the door a cat was sitting outside the porch looking in curiously at us!
He purred with pleasure as I rubbed him, and when I came home later he was curled up in a ball on the doormat!
He disappeared this morning into the garden and beyond so I don’t know if I’ll see him again. If he’s back this evening I’ll check with the neighbours if they recognise him.
Sebastịo Salgado РGuardian Unlimited
Last Saturday the Guardian featured the photographs of Sebastião Salgado. A URL was included at the bottom of the article but it also appeared on delicious too. Take a look at this Guardian Unlimited feature too and enjoy the great photos!
Post Processing by Sam Javanrouh
Here’s a write-up by the author of daily dose of imagery on how he “fixed” an image of a grain silo. What he did is admirable because there was very little contrast in the original photo. I wouldn’t have manipulated the sky so much(I’ve done it myself, so I recognise an attempt to bring out detail that just isn’t there!) but the silo and water is a great photo!
Forty Hours Behind Bars
Theo Rigby was arrested and held for 48 hours for taking photos in New York. He was there covering the RNC and followed a protest march..
I was thinking of going the New York in March, but maybe South America would be safer for a photographer? I have a chance to go to Ecuador too. Where’d you go?
Street photography on Wikipedia
The SP list started work on a Street photography page on Wikipedia. It’ll be a great resource once it’s filled out as there’s a lot of talented people behind it.