Trouble in France

Via Keith comes this link to a scathing “overview of France”. Some of the comments are hilarious! Some are so full of hypocrisy that I want to vomit, but it’s irresistible stuff! Finally, here’s one comment that got me thinking:

The bombing (October 3, 1980) was at a Jewish synagogue on the Rue Copernic and killed four people. As I recall, the Prime Minister was outraged, not that Jews were targeted, but as he said at the time, that “innocent Frenchmen” were wounded. Pigs.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but weren’t those people French too? Is a person a Jew first, then a member of their country? Should I change the by-line on my blog so it reads:

The weblog of a Catholic Irishman, Donncha O Caoimh.
All about PHP, web development, Catholic and Irish news and other stuff.

To be honest, I couldn’t care less what religion any particular person is as long as they live by the law of the land and treat people fairly. Terrorism from any side should be abhorred.
I agree that there’s trouble in France, but the same exists in every country – the rich get richer, and the poor just survive and watch the divide between them ever expand.

I like reading sites that challenge me, that are so completely different to my world view that I need to wrap my head around it and think carefully about what I’m reading. That’s one reason I like Keith’s blog! He’s a good techie but if we ever met we’d have an interesting conversation about politics!

Photos from the gig

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After that lovely comment below from Owen, I thought I should post some of the photos from last night.. Click on the thumbnail to view the larger image!
I like the first image, even though it was the first I took, and a test shot. The original was a bit dark and had to be lightened in the GIMP. The other two were taken without flash, and at a distance of about 5m. That’s very tough to do with stage lighting – conditions go from excellent (bright/yellow/white light) to bad (red/blue light) to downright difficult (performer walks into a shadow) within seconds of each other!
More photos to follow!

  

Idea: Blog Gallery

Here’s something I sent to the WordPress dev list this morning…

Anyway, this morning after a hectic night taking some 250 photos of a friend’s band at a Christmas party it I was wondering how best to blog the best of them. Here’s what I thought of:
The blog entry will have a number of thumbnails (could be automatically created when the large size images are uploaded), and a space underneath, perhaps filled with the first image.
If a user clicks on one of the images then that image is displayed below the thumbnails via javascript. It’d be handy to have a “display all” button too (“dummy” <IMG src..> tags could load “blank.gif” or something until needed)

The Javascript bit is easy, it’s just changing the image src attribute, the PHP is easy. Making it easy for the potential user could be the most difficult bit. Hmm, that custom fields plugin could be handy!

Photos anyone?

Just spent the last 2 hours taking well over 200 photos of the band “King of Hearts” “Pleasure Dome” playing in Silver Springs. Great party, atmosphere, talent(!!) and I’m wrecked tired! Good thing I had extra batteries for my flash as lighting conditions for photography were as you might expect – difficult and contstantly changing strobes and stage lighting! A tripod was invaluable tonight!
Expect a few of the photos to make it online here in the next few days!

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