Archive For June, 2003

When you get new memory cards..

When you get new memory cards for your camera make sure you format them first. I took about 20 photos at lunchtime and one or two were good enought to go up here, but Linux refuses to see the card, saying, # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera /dev/sda1: Input/output error mount: you must specify the filesystem type [...]

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EV Compensation

The 717 has a histogram showing the composition of the image seen through the linse. I know what it represents, but wasn’t sure how to manipulate it or use the information it presented to me. This tutorial on EV Compensation certainly helps and provides example shots to illustrate!

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PhotographyBLOG

Mark Goldstein has an excellent blog here. Although he does concentrate on the high end, where I have no chance of joining for a good couple of years!

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Water Rockets – up, up and away!

Google led me here where they have instructions on making a simple water rocket out of a 50ml bottle. I originally found out abou all this stuff from The Jer Zone. Anyone reading this make one of these things?

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phplist : web based newsletter software

phplist looks good. The list of features goes on and on! (via the comments on this post on Fuzzyblog!)

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2003 Taste of Chicago

Woohoo! The 2003 Taste of Chicago starts today! Here’s what’s on today! The 2003 Taste of Chicago presented by U.S. Cellular will field a great line-up of food, activities and entertainment, June 27- July 6, 2003 in Grant Park, featuring many returning players as well as some great new stars. Taste-goers will step up to [...]

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Chicago from afar

This is what I see if I look towards Chicago from the top of my apartment.. (some obvious and not well done manipulation done in the GIMP)

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Sammy Sosa, Baseball & corked bats

At the start of June Sammy Sosa, Chicago Cubs’ star player broke his bat during a game. Cork was discovered inside the bat, lending him an unfair advantage while hitting. I was there with Martina, and although I didn’t realise the full extent and implications of what was happening, I snapped a few photos. It [...]

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W32.Sobig.E@mm

Several copies of W32.Sobig.E@mm have made their way to the mail server at work. Luckily, there’s a simple Procmail recipe to stop it. The above recipes use the Procmail E-mail Sanitizer by John Hardin to catch malicios content such as this virus.

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Americans discover UK & Ireland TV Licences

This article about the lengths to which People in the UK go to to hide their televisions from the inspector introduced #LUNI to our (and our neighbour’s) TV licence system. <seva> UncleDub: wtf are they talking about

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