The reliability of CDRs and writeable digital media in general came up for discussion on Slashdot yesterday (as it does every 6 months or so), but Mark posts that CD-Rs may become unreadable after only 2 years! Damn, that’s scary as I’m archiving my photos to DVD-R now. I’ll probably rewrite my photos next year just to be safe. Check out Mark’s post for a comment I left there with more..
Another CSS Generator
This generator produces fluid css and I’m trying to persuade the 3 column one to play nicely with my blog design and wishes. Alas, with little luck. Must try later.
Save Billy!
Billy Burke, of Killorglin, Co. Kerry has been waiting for a lung transplant for three and a half years. His story has made the headlines here because he was turned down for a transplant in Newcastle as he had an infection in his lungs. However he has been accepted by a hospital in Manchester, but because the Irish Government has an exclusive deal with Newcastle, Billy won’t have access to lungs that become available in the Republic. This is what Billy’s family and others want to change.
Check the site for more info.
(via Owen)
Cloning Out The Can
What to do? Leave the can in or get rid of it? Interesting essay as I cloned a car out of one of the photos to appear in a few days here. It also gave me the opportunity to rotate and brighten the original image too. I hadn’t noticed the awful slope of the far shore!
Street Photographer Interviews
Several excellent interviews of street photographers in the latest Popular Photography Magazine. (via PhotographyBlog)
Later… I noticed one piece of advice that was repeated in several of the interviews. You should manually focus your camera to 2 or 3 meters, and set the exposure before hand. That’ll certainly avoid the 1-3 second lag while the auto-focus kicks in, especially in low light.
Slashdot Humour: I'm to switching UDP!
Simon spotted some geek humour on /. that made me laugh. *grin*
b2++ Photoblog
What with the proliferation of photoblogs around the Internet I thought we should get in on the act!
Features:
- Displays one image, with optional surrounding html code.
- If no image is available selects a previous image at random.
- Only certain images will be used. No surprises!
What to do:
- Add this code to your blog template:
{photoblog} - There are optional parameters too:
start: Starting html code.
msg: Title of the picture.
randmsg: Title of a random photo
end: Ending html code.
class: css class inserted into the img tag.
ie.{photoblog start="<div align='center'>" msg="<b>Pic of the Day</b>" end="</div>" class="pictureborder"}
To always display a random photo just passwhen='random'to the plugin. - Upload images to your blog with the filenames photoblog-YYYYMMDD.jpg
A Night at the Opera (House)
I went to see Calexico the other night. They played in the Opera House here in Cork on Wednesday night and for some reason I forgot to blog this event! (oh yeah, you don’t need to know everything about me do you?)
Anyhow, Calexico were .. good, not great, but good. I think everyone was waiting for Alone Again Or which has been played quite often by Ryan Tubridy. They played that near the end of the night and thankfully I woke up just minutes before. Oh, did I forget to tell you I fell asleep? Sorry, the rest of their music just didn’t do anything for me. (Apologies to Calexico fans who come here via Google, leave a comment if you want to vent your anger!)
In fact, the support band, Fred were excellent! My foot tapped along to their tunes, they looked like they really enjoyed playing and there was good rapport (thanks pron@#linux) between band members.
On the way back to the car I bumped into one of Fred’s lovely violin players. She was giving directions to a group of lads over from Wales and I recognised her from earlier so we had a bit of a natter and I told her Fred rocked, Calexico sucked. I think she appreciated that!
Edit in 2023: Adding YouTube videos!
Whatever next?
Come to Kenya!
Ruairi and Louise are in Kenya. Why don’t you go too? Looks like fun!