Hand-held photo of St. Finbarr’s Cathedral and the River Lee. The original was very dark and the colour was spoilt by the local street lights. Converting it to black and white and adjusting the contrast made for a nice photo IMO!
Movies
Batmans Begins – bah, crap trailer, looks good!
Me being a big Batman fan, I just took at look at the Batman Begins trailer. It wasn’t great, you don’t get much of a look at the Caped Crusader, but it does give you a taste for the story I suppose! Nice Batman logo! Oh and wget this link if you want to download the trailer in QuickTime format. That at least is friendlier than the wmv format to Mplayer but don’t forget to download the QuickTime codecs to play it!
Photography
Old vs New
Pictured from near the Opera House, you can see Shandon, and the construction work building a new appartment block near the river.
Development
CVS Insanity, or what?
ah ha! This is handy! How to use CVS without going insane is a list of must-have commands for creating, maintaining and using a CVS repository, or maybe I should use something else?
b2
b2++ Updates
Regular visitors to this site will have noticed that this blog and others on the server take an inordinate amount of time to display sometimes. Basically, this machine is unfortunately under-powered but we’re working on making the best of use of the available hardware with some changes to MySQL and Apache and to b2++ too. Here’s what I did this morning: Referers are checked and only if requests go to either “/”, “index.php” or “archive/” are they recorded. Referers are now recorded using INSERT DELAYED. I added keys on the post_date and post_category fields in *posts tables. The main SELECT […]
Photography
Factory Shop
Any Corkonians reading this will probably recognise the sign in the background. Before the by-pass was built most traffic going north-west from the City would have passed through Blackpool. I can’t remember this place ever being open! Does anyone know what they made and sold?
Humour
Google & Privacy – The irony of it
It’s rather ironic that a weblog post about Google Privacy which has disappeared off the existing site is now to be found in the Google Cache of the site. hehe.
General
Messy Thinking – How do we Organise at all?
Alright, I started reading this essay thinking I had met a kindred spirit because we both share the need to to do too many things at one time. In this day and age, and among the audience who reads this blog that’s probably not uncommon. How many windows have you got open? Oh damn, must get back to that survey in a minute..
Photography
Legal, schmegal – Photography rights challenged, again!
I thought this was going to be a slightly alarmist story about the heavy handed nature of the law when I read “riot act” but it turned out well enough in the end. Almost on topic, I remember taking a photo of a dramatic painting in the Louvre years ago. I thought I had disabled the flash, but no, I hadn’t and bright white light poured into the room when I pressed the shutter button! No sooner had I realised my mistake than an irate lady came pounding up to me gesticulating wildly and berating me, in French, for destroying […]
Web
These web sites are identical, or are they?
Oh yeah! Nice survey! It compares the websites of ten web designers and notes the similarities and differences between them. Lookee here, they’re almost all the same! What is hence noteworthy is that all these designs resemble themselves very much. They use a panel of common element, and then place them at identical locations on their pages. Hence, the difference between one web site and another is then merely colors and pictures.