Author: Duncan
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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 […]
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On helping others
It’s interesting how simple acts of help / kindness towards other people can make my day. Walking home from work the other day, I happened to notice an older gentleman trying to lever a wooden post off of his wall and out of the ground. I stopped to watch for a few, and noticed he […]
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Defining insanity
Silly me decided to try again to upgrade my ZyXEL firmware. I believe there’s a definition of insanity that reads ‘Trying the same thing over and over, expecting different results.’ I’m insane 🙂 This time, not only did SIP break, but I couldn’t downgrade either. This is a bit painful, as it means I can’t […]