Archive For November, 2004
I’m not a fan of Star Wars, not at all, but the trailer (8.6MB .mov) for the next film looks quite good! Thank you Conor for pointing that out to me!
Garret’s busy with his 20D this week. He’s taking portraits, something I’d like to do more off, luckily, here’s some tutorials to get me started. He linked to this Carier Bresson article too. To read.. Now, how do I justify spending €2000 on a camera and lens kit to myself? No, seriously – how?
Matt points to a PHP script that uses shm memory to cache data. I rather use the filesystem to cache data – disk access is an order of magnitude slower than memory accesses but the operating system is generally clever about caching filesystem reads in memory. I would presume that the algorithms used are more [...]
If you go visit sco.com really quickly, you’ll notice that all is not quite right.. Newsforge has more on the story, as does Netcraft.
On a foggy day familiar things looks strange. I love the stark contrast between black and white on days such as these and especially by a body of water the difference is very pronounced!
I only picked up the last few moments of Paul McKenna’s interview on TodayFM, but right at the end he suggested methods of massage and tapping acupuncture points to relieve stress. I did a quick search and found a few interesting sites. Here’s one picked at random.. I’m well aware that massage relaxes oneself but [...]
WordPressMU uses symlinks to do the multi-blog thing. Blogs names are linked to in a “blogs” directory (avoids having the root directory writeable by the webserver!) which makes life easier on me writing mod_rewrite rules for various reasons. Unfortunately, that requirement means that PHP has to be able to symlink directories which isn’t possible all [...]
I came across the site PhotoJournalism by Mark Hancock several days ago and this afternoon read a few of his posts. He offers some great advice and writes well on the subject of photography, here’s a few of his recent works: Gain trust for protraits Soften artifical light What is focus? Have dark corners
Here’s a more “traditional” picture of the two trees I published yesterday. Some working with the GIMP involved to bring out the sky, but otherwise, a reasonable approximation of a cold night!
