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Sad, I know, but I’m almost tempted. Dealbreakers: crappy resolution, no wireless connectivity. When the resolution improves, and I can auto-email the pics, I’ll get a pair. When they do that, they’ll be perfect for a project I’ve been developing.
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I’m on a productivity upswing (I have made my peace with the fact that I have periods where I juggle about 47 projects at once, vs periods where all I do is watch the telly) at the moment, and this might help ensure it’s actaully sustainable.(tags: lifehacks productivity)
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Increase the contrast in an image with PHP.
Author: Alasdair
Links For Saturday 5th April 2008
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Chat about their forthcoming cookbooks, their approach to food, and what the future holds. I’m interested in their idea of 50 year cycles in cooking…
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I do like distressed type, me.
Links For Friday 4th April 2008
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Willpower is, apparently a finite resource – exercising it in one matter depletes the amount you have available to apply to other things. Good news though: exercising it regularly leaves you with more to go around.
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An interactive on-line music video/teaser. Music companies could benefit from doing more of this sort of thing – this one is, very, er, rathergood, but it’s a music video and it’s viral. The principle could easily be applied to less kitten-related stuff.
I Don’t Quite Know How To Respond
From the Department Of What The Fuck?, a campaign video from the Libertarian candidate for the US Presidency.
OK, it probably can’t have cost much, but still: people were paid to make that happen. Someone, somewhere, though that that would sway hearts and minds.
Good Morning World
Saturday morning in London town. Peruvian coffee in a New Zealand style. Croissant. Shopping for cheeses, new season asparagus, some wild beef, some bloody good chocolate and some dark german beer. Taking a few photos while I wander around watching the Market fill up. And now I’m sitting here sipping a rich hot chocolate in the shadow of a whoremonger’s cathedral, watching the river slip by. In a minute I’m going to go and take a wander up to one of the finest collections of modern art in the world, just to see what’s new. Then it’s off to buy a bottle of whisky before nipping home prior to watching some roller derby this afternoon.
It’s a rough old life. Hope your weekend looks as good to you as mine does to me.
Grown From A Seed
Another one of those shots where I knew exactly what I wanted the (heavily processed) shot to look like when I took it. I was struck by the silver dishes that the tomatoes were sitting in, and the light on them and on the tomatoes, and I wanted to see if I could get the tomatoes to take on some of the characteristics of the dish. It’s not a natural looking effect, obviously, but I’m big on irony in photography so it pleases me.
This actually looks rather better at larger sizes, so you may wish to click through for a larger version.
Telephone Number Help
Does anyone know a reliable means of getting the current phone number associated with a UK address? Yes, I have googled, but all the references I can find via google are incorrect…
Edit: Crisis over, the number in question has called me.
Does More Than Milton Can
Some Assembly Required
And the first photo taken with my new camera that I put online is… some scaffolding. I have a number of different variants of this, but the short answer to why I like them is “the sky”. The fact that on a reasonably bright day, I can take a shot of something looking up, and retain quite a lot texture in the sky. Never mind the gain in megapixels, the automatic metering on the new camera is much, much better than on the old one, and I think I am going to enjoy this.
Ta, all.
Thanks for the birthday wishes, whether they be in person, via email, on farcebook, or wherever.