Archive For June, 2004
Steve’s Digicams have launched a new tech section and their July article goes in depth into the issue of megapixels. Are they worth it, what’s the downside of squeezing all those pixels into the same size sensor, etc etc. (via photographyblog)
Aidan Staunton, a renowned Cork artist, is showing a collection of his paintings in the Cork Vision Centre for the next two weeks. This is what Whazon.com says about him: Images of Cork City and Ireland West. A visually striking exhibition by Cork based artist Aidan Staunton. The exhibition consists of oils and watercolours. This [...]
Well, well. Looks like Linux helped in the making of Shrek 2! I can’t help but wonder how much more bang-per-buck they would have got if they had used a new distribution with the 2.6 kernel, although the computers they used were rather beefy anyway!
In an otherwise dry conversation about fuel economy numbers, this little nugget brought a smile to my face.. Get the car up to about 70 MPH so that there just a slight aerodynamic effect on the body. Then a gust of wind will literally lift the car and blow it into either the left or [...]
Justin has a lot more on RTE’s Bush Interview that I mentioned previously. He notes that the White House complained to “RTE, the Irish Embassy, the Irish Government, and the reporter herself” aftewards. hehe. He includes links to the realvideo version of it as well as an mp3 audio-track too. I recorded the realvideo streaming [...]
If, as sometimes happens, you’re working at something and are called away from your desk, it’s nice to know you can lock Excel and stop others fiddling with it. Unfortunately it’s also possible that you might forget your password. *ahem* If so, go download the Free Excel password remover and watch it work wonders and [...]
Over the weekend I moved from Vodafone to Meteor and also upgraded to a Nokia 6600 at the same time. Nice phone, this review is reasonably favourable, although he mentions that battery life is very bad (no surprise there!) and he commented on the 20MB of the memory card that was taken up by “undeletable” [...]
Heh. George Bush was pictured in his vest on Saturday morning! Has anyone got a copy of the photo that appeared in Ireland On Sunday? I spoke too soon From here – about the quality, it’s a “picture taken of a newspaper print from a video grab.” Thanks Niall for the link!
Telephoto Is For Cowards, maybe so, but it’s a brave soul who’ll go up to some of the people I see on the street and take their photo! Mark linked to the Photographers Rights pamphlet but it applies mostly to the USA. Things are different enough in Europe that it would confuse matters. (Via a [...]
