Archive For September 1st, 2005

An Fear Marbh

An Fear Marbh lies in the distance as seen from Baile na nGall.

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Conor Pass, Kerry

Near the top of the Conor Pass, on the Dingle Side.

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"No One Can Say they Didn't See it Coming"

“In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.” (via)

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Sigma 18-200 lens has arrived!

My Sigma 18-200 lens arrived this afternoon after much reloading of An Post’s tracking site! Images later but I think this will be a good “carry around” lens to replace my 18-55 kits lens. Much much later.. if you’d like to see how the lens performs, take a look at the Sigma 18-200 category on [...]

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WPMU Updates

Here’s a brief summary of what’s been happening.

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The Holy Grail of PHP?

What is the Holy Grail? Depends on who you ask. Some may think that it’s the object orientated “Ruby on Rails” but others still use functional coding. There’s room for everyone. This combination of Smarty, PHP and Ajax is interesting. There are a few links in the comments to other PHP toolkits including PHP on [...]

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Kmymoney – financial tracking software

Kmymoney is a finance package for KDE. I installed it ages ago but haven’t looked at it since as I was using GNUCash but it deserves a second look methinks! This review has some pretty screenshots for you to gander at!

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Pimp Your Firefox – SEO Extensions Edition

Lots of Firefox extensions that I must try out.

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Blended Exposures Revisted

DP&I.com: Blended Exposures Revisted – neat method of getting a little more dynamic range from your photos. Not suer if the GIMP can create a luminosity mask but similar methods can be used to get the same effect.

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