Vodafone.ie doesn't like Mozilla Firebird

Argh! Vodafone.ie doesn’t like Mozilla Firebird! I tried to change my tariff from the awfully expensive one it was at. (set a year ago, and forgot to change, it’s not even available now!)
Using Moz FB I get the following error:

You have selected a Text Add On.

In order for your request to be processed you must select one of our new Tariff options from the Tariff Table.

Of course I had selected one of the new tariff options and I hadn’t selected the “Text Add On”. I had to resort to IE on a Windows box nearby. Why can’t they get simple forms and radio buttons right and cross-browser compatible? Silly, silly, silly.
Must mail webmasterATvodafone.ie about that one methinks.

Pics of the Day

Photosig has a couple of images that I liked this morning:

  • Nightriding – I have to try something like this. It’s surreal. Liam created a nightime photo of his own. I took a few photos last night, and may post a few later!
  • Trine – In this day and age of computer post processing this is a great example of what can be done, without a computer!
  • Brothers – great portrait of 3 kids. Good DOF, and well composed!

Snappin' the stage

There are several good tips in this article on stage photography. It’ll certainly come in useful in the future! The one tip I hadn’t thought of was using centre weighted or spot metering to calculate the exposure settings.
To that I might add using AE lock if the lighting is any way static. Of course, that situation rarely occurs but I’ll give it a go the next time I’m shooting TKOH!

CD Wow Backs down

As previously reported here, IRMA sued CD Wow to stop them importing cheap music CDs into Ireland. This morning on the radio I heard that sad news that CD Wow have basically given up and they will add €3 to the price of every music CD bought by someone resident in Ireland. The Register has an update on that as it’s not available on rte.ie yet. A representative of CD Wow UK spoke on Radio 1 this morning and was quizzed about the size of the Irish market to which he dithered and was very uncomfortable answering. In the end he admitted that in the context of a global market, Ireland is small fry (my words, not his!) and he hoped a consumer group would do their fighting for them.
Of course, by the looks of things, they have enough trouble in the UK, and Germany without causing a fuss in Ireland too.
The news prompted a length discussion on the ILUG this afternoon, even branching into how generous music performers are with their music.
Ah sure, it doesn’t bother Internet users, don’t we all download our music illegally anyway?

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