Short but interesting article on taking portraits “on the street”. There’s a fine line between this and street photography. Is this photo I took in Chicago a Found Portrait?
From our roving reporter, John, at the scene, comes the news that the Crow’s Nest Bar and Restaurant burnt down this morning! I passed there around 9:30 and the place was fine. 🙁
I couldn’t find any photos online, but here’s a review of the place from the SBPost.
That Friday Feeling has been around since 1929! Thank Crunchie It’s Friday!
(Blame pron for that!)
APOD has an amazing picture and story today about a huge star that exploded 170,000 years ago. The gases produced are seen expanding out at huge velocities and temperatures!
Then there’s a picture of a solar eclipse on photosig. I’m jealous, because for some reason, *every* time there’s such an event over Ireland the sky is cloudy. Every single time. *grrr*
The People’s Republic of Cork have a couple of new articles online.. I read the feminist one in the Echo this evening and as I was nodding my head I thought it’d be good to bring to the attention of my dear readers here..
So there you go, the combined intelligence and social engineering skills of the average Corkonian is imbued in the above writing. Read ’em and weep, err laugh, guys!
Yer man on the motor bike is back and this time I had the camera ready!
He went up and down outside the office for about 10 minutes doing stoppies, trying to do burnouts (and failing miserably!), and very weak attempts at wheelies.
Let’s have some bets on when he’s going to have a blow out on that back wheel shall we?
Forget the last one I posted, this drop down menu is rather better, but it does require Javascript and not just CSS. Saving that, it’ll still work in non-Javascript/CSS capable browsers because it uses HTML lists to render the menu structure!
Looks like I’m not the only driver to have a camera handy to capture a road crash. Maybe I should have posted them to Photosig at the time?
Yay! The smoking ban is to come into force on March 29! I can’t wait! I absolutely detest the lingering smell from a night out.
Micheál Martin is on TodayFM right now playing it up for the media. I hope there won’t be any more delays in implementing the ban. *fingers crossed*
Like many of us, Jeremy’s started doing his own homebrew financial planning. I’ve been budgeting using OpenOffice Calc since October and it’s been a great boon while trying to figure out if I can afford a house. (I can, just about!)
Anyway, scroll down the comments on that page – I posted a very brief outline of setting up a budget spreadsheet. I want to start writing a larger article soon to post here on buying a house and budgeting is a major part of it!