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!
Photography
Garret's got a 20D!
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? 😉
PHP
PHP Shm Caching
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 complex than can be practically achieved by a PHP script too. AFAIR, Apache has problems with Shm segments too although that could be something I remember from long ago!
Linux
SCO – We Own All Your Code!
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.
Photography
Spider's Web
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!
General
Massage and Acupuncture – relieve the stress!
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 these are very specific points on the body that can be tapped for different effects!
WordPress
WPMU – No Symlinks!
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 the time due to security settings on servers. Therefore, here’s two htaccess.dist files that you can drop into your WPMU installation, then run your installation again (delete the existing .htaccess files) Put this htacess.dist in the root directory: http://blogs.linux.ie/download/htaccess.dist (If you’ve downloaded this file already, […]
Photography
Mark Hancock's PhotoJournalism
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
Photography
Trees All Lit Up!
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!
Photography
Squiggly Trees
What does one do on a freezing cold night? Go out with a tripod and take photos of trees! I took this photo a week ago during a cold snap in the weather. I assembled my tripod on the corner of the street near my home and set it up for a 20 second exposure. Half way through the shot a man, his son and their dog passed. I *knew* something was going to happen and I was right. The dog’s lead got caught in the legs of the tripod but I had a good grip of it so the […]