Archive For November, 2004

Report claims Yasser Arafat has died

Very little news here but the picture of him on the above page is great! RIP if true. Sky news has more. Yay! He’s not dead!

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Digital Photography Now – Features – Book Reviews – Digital Retro

Mark pointed out that DPNow reviewed the new book by Gordon Laing. It’s called “Digital Retro” and looks like a very interesting and nostalgic walk through the home computers of the 70′s and 80′s and talks to those who invented them and were the stars of the time!

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Plethora of PHP stuff

Tony Marston has several PHP articles on his site.. A Development Infrastructure for PHP The Model-View-Controller (MVC) Design Pattern for PHP There’s more but I haven’t around to looking through the site yet!

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George Bush.. picture paints a thousand words

Or maybe just one word in this case. Go visit this CNN page and view the image of George and his wife. See the filename?

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Journalist Arrested After Photographing Voting Lines

Beacuse you live in the land of the free!

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Photo Links

The Future of Digital – Full Frame of APS-C? – maybe it’s a good thing I use a digicam and not a DSLR, the future’s up for grabs right now! backup, backup, backup – I’ve said it many a time. This is mainly a review of an external RAID unit, but since my wallet won’t [...]

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Apple to iPod owners: slaps all around!

On a lighter note, Apple is threatening it’s iPod owning users over a bit of software that lets you download your music off your iPod. They really didn’t have a choice, it was the big bad music corporations guiding their hand! Still, I love the simple work-around

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Holding Your Breath?

Who else stayed up late watching the US election commentary and watched the non news unravel? As time passes it looks more likely that Bush will win again and that has serious implications for the left, or perhaps for American society as a whole. Who likes Kerry anyway? At least we can probably look forward [...]

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New for GIMP 2.2

Carol Spears looks at what’s new in GIMP 2.2! Lots of screenshots and a section dedicated to the GIMP Animation Plugin.

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Gimp Script Writing, Script-fu and Python

Although you can write plugins for the GIMP in several languages, the most commonly used one is Scrript-fu. Here’s a tutorial explaining how to write a Script-fu plugin for Gimp 1.1.24, so it may be a little out of date. TBH, Script-fu scares me.. too many lists and lisp orientated! *shudder* Another more palitable method [...]

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