Archive For February, 2004
I read about Pandora, a GIMP plugin to aid in the creation of panoramic photos. I’ll hopefully get to use it tonight on some photos I took last night. The author suggests chapter 7.5 of Grokking the GIMP for more info on panoramic photos.
Bush may not get a Cead Mile Failte when he visits Ireland! The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has asked that people not protest but that’s just pouring more fuel on the fire of discontent. Don’t we live in a democracy? (As an aside, note the maker of the rubbish bin this poster is stuck to? Quite [...]
Dave, I must read your blog more often! Your post about Yahoo gave me pause for thought. I tried a search for xeer c64 on Yahoo and Google and I knew they should return links to my old homepage on Geocities. Both did, but I couldn’t discern any bias on Yahoo from this simple search. [...]
While in Chicago I used to record The Last Word to my PC using Mplayer, and listen to Radio 1 in “realtime” over the Internet. Well, I did this until I got bored of hearing the same news on each channel, except on a Friday when the 6-7pm slot on TodayFM went all sporty, and [...]
Dave updated the style sheet on his blog so that the first letter of his blog entries are super big. Nice! Now, if the letter was vertically up a bit more it’d look a lot better. In Moz FF there’s an annoying space above the letter..
Russell explains one of the adverts I was puzzled about over in Chicago. A guy walked around the country with a mobile phone asking, “Can you hear me now? Good…” The ad always annoyed me but now it makes sense.. the mobile networks in the US are in such a bad way that networks boast [...]
I gave my neighbour a lift into town this morning and found out that his son is an aeronautical engineer in Germany working for Airbus! I knew he was in Germany but not what he was doing but it seems that he’s working on the Airbus A380! Looks like that particular plane won’t be flying [...]
