Archive For August 10th, 2004
The August 2004 Issue of The Digital Journalist is now out and from a quick scan looks as good as previous offerings, including The Death of a Famous Unknown, an article about Henri Cartier-Bresson. No wonder I didn’t know about him :- One of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s favorite quotations was from the French painter Degas, who [...]
So, my boss has a Million Dollar Bill on his desk and I wondered what we could buy with it.. <donncha> woohoo! we’re rich! my boss has a $1,000,000 note on his desk! <donncha> and he’s gone to Chicago for a few days.. hmm, what to buy? *grin* * minus1 drops around to make a [...]
Here’s another excellent tutorial by the GIMP Guru, Eric Jeschke. This time he tackles restoring old photographs and does a pretty decent job of it! I have a few old photos I’d like to try restoring, this might get me motivated to do so!
Look, they were on special offer in Dunnes on Sunday so I couldn’t resist. I had to buy them! They were crying out to me! I think almost everyone must remember Wagon Wheels from their youth, and they even made Biscuit of the Week here! Unfortunately, all is not sweet in the production of said [...]
I took this a few weeks ago. Both cats had been asleep and were miaowing for food and attention! Next thing I knew, Zara was rubbing against my leg, and Zak had stretched out on the corridor floor lazily watching his sister play.
What if the US attacked Iraq to prop up the US Dollar? This article delves into that idea. Iraq is a European Union beachhead in that confrontation. America had a monopoly on the oil trade, with the US dollar being the fiat currency, but Iraq broke ranks in 1999, started to trade oil in the [...]
