Archive For October 13th, 2004
Are photographic workshops fun? I’ve never been on one, but I’d like to. I’d think twice about Iceland however (and then go anyway!).. The author has some beautiful images to go along with his essay. Why does one attend a workshop? To learn. To share. To experience. To be fired and inspired. To be criticized [...]
JPS wonders aloud about Bush’s (deteriorating) brain. It seems George Bush was a lot more lucid and eloquent 10 years ago. What’s happening inside that head of his?
The October issue of The Digital Journalist is out, and probably has been for a few days. This issue has a tribute to Eddie James and a humorous look at 2004 that finishes with a very good idea .. Jeez … If you’re an old, famous, iconic, white, male photographer, then 2004 may not have [...]
b2++ and WPMU have long been able to record hits and referers. Now you can do it in two different ways! The original way to record hits in WPMU was by adding this code to your index.html template: {insert name=’getreferer’} but if you’re not sure that the web page is refreshed every time your blog [...]
I really want to investigate Javascript RPC. There are so many possibilities for creating rich clients in the browser using it, style sheets and dhtml. This short tutorial will give you a quick look into this world.
To display “static” pages here I use the Apache “ForceType” directive so that all requests to /pages/something get processed by a php file called “pages”. Unfortunately that doesn’t work as easily when PHP is running as a CGI. I found a possible solution in this Textpattern forum thread. Not sure if you can put “ScriptAlias” [...]
Here’s a glowing review of The Canon 20D DSLR.. Can my credit card resist? ‘Fraid so! *sob* (via Mark) Later.. Here’s another review, this time from Steve’s Digicams. Yes. I’m lusting after this camera!
Last weekend I took a dozen photos of a valley south of Mizen Head with the intention of stitching them together in a wide panorama. This tutorial will help by using Hugin, Enblend and The Gimp! Nice effect – Crystal Ball
The PRGoogleBar adds page rank to the Google Bar for Mozilla, another reason not to use IE! The Mozile inline editor looks promising. It allows one to edit xhtml documents within a web page in a WYSIWYG way. It might help to style the containing DIV a little so it actually looks like an editor [...]
