Foundphotos is kinda strange. It states that, “these were found by doing a search using p2p programs. people share their own personal digital photos in their shared folders, i guess they put them there for friends or family to download or just select their whole my documents folder as shared.”
After scrolling down through the first few photos I got this feeling that I was getting a look into the lives of strangers and other cultures. People from all walks of life are featured here in all kinds of situations – snashots of family, personal encounters, public events and down right silly goings on at times.
Mostly safe for work but no guarantees!
Now we can all download the Internet!
Prompted by a question asked by Keith on #linux,
“ok well tell me a few good linux ditros that you can get everything for?”
I went searching and found a way that everyone can download the Internet themselves! It’s quite amazing that they’ve managed to do this but if you’re new to computers and you’re bored of trying to delete the Internet this is for you!
Mozilla and WinXP Flaw
This bug/flaw could be serious if you run Mozilla on Windows XP. It lets web pages run any program without user intervention. There’s a fix so go download it! You can take some consolation in the fact that not many blackhats are going to exploit a browser with 1% share of the general Internet browsing population however!
MP3 Blogs, wget and curling audio and images
Jeffrey Veen shows a simple usage of the wget command that’ll retrieve media from remote sites. If you’ve used wget at all you’ll be familiar with the options he uses.
What’s more interesting is the wget-curl blog that lists recipies for downloading images and audio. Good news for all you hungry media consumers out there!
I found 3hive.com via Jeffrey’s post above. I’m enjoying a few tunes by The Hold Steady right now. Go listen!
Much Later… And this page will be very handy for ripping mp3s from web pages!
So much to do, so much to read, consume, take in, absorb
I’m hopeless, I’m utterly behind in my reading. There’s a copy of the Sunday Times at home that’s hardly touched, I bought the National Geographic 2 weeks ago and it lies unread in a paper bag, books take longer to read now it seems. So much to do. I mentioned last month that The Digital Journalist would have a tribute to Ronald Reagan in their next issue. It’s out now, go read! I’ll eventually get around to reading it, sometime.
I won’t be reading it tonight however, Jacinta got 2 tickets to go see Julian Marley & The Uprising in the Cork Opera House. Looks like a good gig!
Developing Photos That "Pop"
This is the first part of a tutorial that’ll show you how to improve “muddy” overcase photos. I’ve only scanned through it, it looks a little complicated but I’ve messed up exposure settings so many times this technique will be useful!
Ads Suck, Internet Sucks Bandwidth
Using hosts file you can stop most of the banner adverts out there in one fell swoop. I’m installing this at home. Browsing via a 56K modem is painful enough…
Most Popular Posts
I’ve just added a new plugin to the site that lists the most popular posts on your blog.
The command is {popularposts} which creates an array, $pposts, containing the list of posts. Unfortunately it’ll only work if you use the newer $blogid/archives/p/1/ type url, not the old $blogid/archives/m/200407/#1
Thank you Nargler for the MySQL substring_index code. Helped a lot!
Here’s an example usage:
{popularposts}
{if $pposts != ''}
<b>Most Popular Posts</b><br />
{foreach from=$pposts key=key item=hits}
<nobr><a href="{$siteurl}/archives/p/{$hits.postID}/c/1/more/1" title='{$hits.title}'>{$hits.title|truncate:30:"..."}</a>: {$key}</nobr><br />
{/foreach}
{/if}
Synthetic Lighting for Photography
This is a technique that’ll make your photos that little bit more extra-ordinary!
Rules Du Jour – Stop the Spam!
The Spamassassin Rules Du Jour is an invaluable bash script that’ll update commonly used SA rules from various sites. Put it in /etc/cron.daily/ to have it run once a day!
I have SA fairly well trained already so it didn’t make much difference to my setup but it’s well worth installing especially as new classes of spam appear!