It doesn’t seem like a year has passed, but the 4th of July is almost upon us again! A year ago I went down to Lake Michigan with my flatmates to watch the brightly lit spectacle overhead! Mark has lots of tips on photographing fireworks on his blog, so if you’re in the USA, have a great time this weekend!
Mark's Coverage of Tech.Ed
Mark Twomey provides excellent coverage of the goings on at Tech.Ed in Amsterdam!
Militant European Linux users nearly started a fistfight with members of the Windows 2003 Server team when a FUD war went wrong. (The Microsoft definition of Open Source being somewhat different than the Linux community’s definition of Open Source.) The OS propagandists usually never come to blows as they all know that their arguments are only so much crap, but there were some very steamed up techies scurrying around the halls after a heated discussion or two today.
Microsoft’s Services for Unix guy was fun, asking assembled crowds how many of them were Linux/Unix developers who felt like fish out of water, laughing when most of the hands went up and saying that this was the safest place for them to be right now, or at least it was until the roaming packs of guys in the MSDN T-Shirts were sluggish after lunch and couldn’t chase them all that fast.
World Press Photo Contest – Galway
The World Press Photo Contest this year is being exhibited in Galway until July 18th. I’ll be there at the weekend so it’d be impossible for me not to take a look around on Saturday morning!
See you there!
More On Bush Interview!
More on the Bush interview from boingboing! I also read in the Irish Times that a member of the Irish Government defended the interview by Carole Coleman. I’ll have a look for a link later..
Much Later.. Rymus has more, including a letter to the Examiner from a US citizen.
Does the digital camera change how people act in front of and behind the lens?
This article explores this question but I find myself disagreeing with some of the conclusions reached. Sure, it makes taking photos easier, and camera phones have changed society in numerous ways but most people still prefer to look at photos printed on nice quality paper and perform the social interaction that passing around photos enables. Maybe when we all have broadband and photo hosting and website building gets easier…
(via photography blog)
Hmm, ‘nother interesting article on Near Infrared Digital Photography: A Tutorial. Cool.
PHP Scalability and Performance
Much more interesting than the previous one is this roundup of various blog posts and articles on PHP performance issues including a link to John’s post today. A must read for all the tips contained within!
The connection between gay marriage and terrorism
The connection between gay marriage and terrorism explains a lot, it really does, swear it! Some of the following comments are worth reading however and do make some sense.
Megapixels, what's it all about then?
Steve’s Digicams have launched a new tech section and their July article goes in depth into the issue of megapixels. Are they worth it, what’s the downside of squeezing all those pixels into the same size sensor, etc etc. (via photographyblog)
Aidan Staunton, Cork Artist Showing in Vision Centre
Aidan Staunton, a renowned Cork artist, is showing a collection of his paintings in the Cork Vision Centre for the next two weeks. This is what Whazon.com says about him:
Images of Cork City and Ireland West.
A visually striking exhibition by Cork based artist Aidan Staunton. The exhibition consists of oils and watercolours. This is his seventh solo exhibition.
He is inspired by old Cork City scenes and the rugged landscape of the West of Ireland.
In his exhibitions he records both places and changes that have occurred in cork over the past few years. His paintings range from the urban images of cork city, through to the rural aspects of the West of Ireland.
This exhibition will run from 30th June –15th July 2004
The Cork Vision Centre @ St. Peter’s is open from Tuesday-Saturday from 10am-5pm.
I attended the opening of the exhibition last night and his paintings are breath-taking. If I had some spare cash I’d buy “Looking Down St. Patrick’s Hill”, or “Fitzgerald’s Park Fountain” to adorn the living room at home!
Linux behind the magic of Shrek 2!
Well, well. Looks like Linux helped in the making of Shrek 2! I can’t help but wonder how much more bang-per-buck they would have got if they had used a new distribution with the 2.6 kernel, although the computers they used were rather beefy anyway!