Archive For September, 2004

Silent PC guide

OMG, my machine at home is so noisy! Mel’s machine is possibly noisier, but not by much! This guide could be useful for both of us! (Via the ILUG list)

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Framing a Photo

A frame can really add to a photo – it’s something I haven’t looked at much, but these two photos, Summer Time and Untitled 1 both use whitespace to good effect! It looks like the subjects are bursting to get out of or squeeze into the frame!

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RSS Feeds, with Firefox

Simon tried it, so did Kae, now I’m about to try it. Download Firefox and play with the live bookmarks stuff! Later – Dougal uses Thunderbird to RSS feeds. That’d make more sense for me too. I’m install Thunderbird 0.8 as we speak!

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School Days in Mennonite Country

The author has 3 nice photos in this photo essay although his concerns in the last part are something to think about – is it an invasion of privacy and immoral to take these photos? I don’t think so, but I thought the photos could have been much better if the author had been able [...]

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Foreign Policy: Hating America

Foreign Policy: Hating America On September 12, 2001, Jean-Marie Colombani, the editor of Le Monde, famously wrote, “Today we are all Americans.” Three years on, it seems that we are all anti-Americans. Hostility to the United States is deeper and broader than at any point in the last 50 years. (via dangerousmeta)

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Online Photo Printing – !Ireland

Here’s a pretty good guide to Online Photo Printing services, but only if you don’t live in Ireland. I covered a few of the Irish outfits a few months ago here. Since then Spectra Photo have increased their prices, but I must check out Bonus Print yet.

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Above the Eye of Hurricane Ivan

Wow! This is a dramatic picture of Hurricane Ivan taken from the ISS. Must be a hell of an experience to see such a powerful force of nature from the serene quiet of space!

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Now Running WordPress

The site is now running on WordPress. I’m going to get some breakfast. Much Later – Still problems with feeds. I’m updating tonight to the CVS snapshot of WordPress from this morning so breakages are likely, but hang on in there! We’re almost home! Later Still – Merging of the CVS version of WordPress is [...]

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stypod – top 10

The Stypod will have “The Top 10 Number Ten Singles Of The Past Ten Years” next week but here’s 3 top 10 singles that came out just a bit too early to include! Couple of good tracks!

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Tribute of Light 2004

Here’s a very striking photo of the light pillars in New York on Sept. 11th. Wow!

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