Archive For April 30th, 2004
Hehe.. Owen’s kept busy today. 80 minis visited the garage on their round-Ireland trip which started at Kevin O’Leary’s in Silversprings! He has more on his blog, including photos of lots and lots of minis!
In the last few weeks I’ve taken to macro photography in a big way. It’s a whole different world out there in the microcosm of flowers, insects and strange textures, where depth of field is measured in inches rather than feet and your subject is likely to have 6 legs rather than 2! For the [...]
Or it can be a shield too protecting protestors, or people under threat from greater forces. This essay by Fritz Hippler, “an employee in the film section of the [Nazi] Propaganda Ministry,” is a very perceptive view of how powerful film would become but it’s not surprising in hind-sight given how successfully the Nazis used [...]
Via slashdot, I thought this thread on how swappy Linux should be would be informative but it appears to be very subjective. I tested with swappiness set high and low, along with Mozilla FF, Thunderbird, xchat and mgt, I opened 3 2560×1920 images in the GIMP and performed a few operations on each. Neither setting [...]
There’s lots happening in Cork tomorrow! On May 1st, the EU expands from 15 to 25 members with the addition of many East European states. Ireland holds the rotating presidency of the European Union and as such, we’re hosting delegations from the incoming states in various cities and areas around the country! Cork is hosting [...]
Woo! E-voting (as it is in Ireland) has been turned down by the commission that investigated the issue. There were many concerns about security, secrecy and privacy but in the last few weeks nothing was heard from opponents of the system. The Government has been running a campaign advocating e-voting, and it has over-simplified the [...]
Great panoramic photo of Paris taking during a storm! I have a similar photo of the Chicago skyline at home which I must hang up sometime..
I have to agree with the conclusion of this photo.net article. Teleconverters are handy but it’s very difficult to get usable, good quality images from them. I use a third party 2x TC on my Sony F717 from time to time, and there’s visible degradation of image quality. The article above recommends using a powerful [...]
According to this report the Irish Government has found that using “only open source software could, in the long run, be more expensive.” The announcement came from “Mary Hanafin, Ireland’s Minister for State with responsibility for the Information Society, who was speaking at the Irish Software Association’s 16th annual conference, sponsored by Microsoft, O’Donnell Sweeney [...]
