Archive For June, 2005

Last Of The Sun

Down in Robert’s Cove on Monday night. It rained steadily on Tuesday and it’s been showery since.

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The laws of web design.

The laws of web design.

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TomDispatch – Tomgram: The Immoral Relativists of the Bush Administration

TomDispatch – Tomgram: The Immoral Relativists of the Bush Administration

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Important Events in Human History to 1 BC

Important Events in Human History to 1 BC, or it all happened 5,000 years ago, around tea time.

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Things to do when you're bored

Are you bored, I’m not. I’m too busy doing interesting stuff to be bored. For everyone else who’s bored. take a look at this bumper list of pointless timewasters and relieve the monotony of your life a small bit.

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The real Batmobile

Great article about the Batmobile! Did anyone else see bits of Chicago in the film? I remember an aerial view of the Wrigley Building and North Bridge, and I could almost swear that the blur of American flags in one chase scene may have been the flags outside Marshall Fields on State Street!

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Linux Raw Image Management

I’ve steered clear of RAW photography for some time. Maybe it’s the extra few steps required to get a finished product, or the very large file size, or just that “it’s not jpeg!” I changed the quality mode on my 20D to RAW this afternoon and was shocked when it told me that I could [...]

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Firestarter – Linux firewall

I tried Firestarter a few minutes ago and I’m very impressed! It’s a firewall application that makes it easy to modify policies, keep track of who’s knocking and gives a nice summary. Much easier than learning the ins and outs of IP Tables!

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Chicago: From John Hancock to Sears

Issue 34 of “Digital Photographer” magazine has a great feature on cityscapes. One of the photos in it is very similar to one I took while I was in Chicago a few weeks ago.. Canon 20D, 1/4 sec, f/3.5, 18mm, ISO 1600. Hand held The shot in Digital Photographer.

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T-Engine: Ubiquitous Computing

That T-Engine sounds mad! Computers everywhere talking to each other! I could bring home my camera after a hard day taking shots only to have the photos transfer by wireless comms to my desktop PC when I drop my bag next to my desk! When I’ve been working too long at my PC it could [...]

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