Month: July 2006
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The Usefulness of the Internet
The Internet is a wonderful thing, even if some people do think it’s made of tubes. When I lived in Pennsylvania, MJ had mentioned how she used to work at a florist, and I’ve managed to use them ever since then for her birthday and Christmas. They’re a friendly company, and I’ve been talking to…
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A Fire Upon The Deep
In a comment on my last book review, Dave suggested that I might like Vernor Vinge’s A Fire Upon The Deep. I finally got around to logging in to the Staffordshire Library system, and put in an inter-library loan request for it. About a week later, I receive a letter from the library system –…
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RIAT 2006
Last weekend was the Royal International Air Tattoo for 2006 (read, great big military airshow), and courtesy of my parents, I attended. Things I forgot to bring: spare camera battery, wide-brimmed hat. Things I remembered to bring: KM 5D, 3.5 GB of memory cards, myself. We arrived just before 9 AM, and found ourselves a…
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Lightboxifying my gallery
While I wait for Zooomr to work for me again (my OpenID [TypeKey in reality, with an OpenID export] login keeps coming back as verification failed), I decided to play with one of the features of Zooomr on my own gallery – Lightbox. With some grunting, application of large hammers and persistence, I’ve managed to…
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Another dinner
Mum muttered that I didn’t have enough green in my last dinner. Therefore, I present exhibit 42, last nights dinner: Noodles, bean sprouts, red pepper, peas, red onion, turkey, sweet chili sauce.
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Free Zooomr upgrades.. hmmm
So the folks over at Zooomr are offering free professional accounts ($20 USD a year or some such) for free to anyone with a blog. You have to host at least one image with them, but that’s it. I have to wonder what they get out of it – perhaps just the publicity from posts…