John’s Blog

September 3, 2008

Dell Mini launching Thursday? | Crave, the gadget blog - CNET

Filed under: comment — john @ 7:12 pm

Dell Mini launching Thursday? | Crave, the gadget blog - CNET.
If you follow the link the prototype is in RED. Maria would love this.

September 2, 2008

How to Be a Curious Photographer

Filed under: Personal, Photos — john @ 2:13 pm

Interesting article.
How to Be a Curious Photographer

Browser wars have started again

Filed under: Web — john @ 2:09 pm

Google is about to release a new browser - ‘Chrome’ as beta and Microsoft have just released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 - IE Looks Good Again.
FireFox V3 was released recently - so which browser do we program against? Standards are just not standard enough.

August 12, 2008

Filming?

Filed under: Photo a day — john @ 7:35 pm

I was working at home today and thought there was quite a lot of activity outside. It turns out that they had a car fitted with cameras and were filming!
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August 10, 2008

Michael Ball - Patchings Art Centre

Filed under: Photo a day — john @ 11:33 pm

Robert and Claire came home this weekend and we all went to Patchings for the day, we had a lovely picnic lunch and then stayed on for the Michael Ball concert.
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Following the concert (which was great) we had a firework spectacular.
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August 9, 2008

London Triathalon

Filed under: Photo a day — john @ 7:28 pm

Today I went to London to meet up with the Olympus UK Photo Safari Group and to photograph the Triathalon. Here are some pictures from the day.
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Finally on the way home I took this picture from Canning Town DLR station of the O2 dome floating on a road bridge with the river Lea in the foreground.
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August 4, 2008

Avoid Norton Internet Security

Filed under: Photo a day — john @ 10:02 pm

I have spent the last two posts using and praising Adobe Lightroom 2.

Now to paste Norton Internet Security. Over the past week I have installed Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Lightroom 2 - little did I know the problems awaiting me on Monday. The regular Monday night full scan from Norton said it had a software error, and then crashed - so I tried support. They took control of my PC, deleted files that I think I wanted but they said were causing the issue, did not give me enough detail to contact them so I had to queue for over an hour again. Eventually I found the issue myself - the Adobe foreign language help files were somehow causing Norton to crash - deleting them fixed the issue. I spent over 6 hours today online to Norton support and got no-where!!! I finally found and worked round the problem myself. To cap it all there is no way for me to tell Norton of the bug they have without going through another few hours of hell, I don’t think they are interested in customers.
DO NOT BUY NORTON.

August 3, 2008

Bears in a basket

Filed under: Photo a day — john @ 6:45 pm

Maria was busy today and when she had finished I took this picture, processed in Adobe Lightroom 2.
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July 31, 2008

Wonderful product update from Adobe - Lightroom 2

Filed under: Photo a day — john @ 9:32 pm

I have spent some time over the past two days playing with Adobe Lightroom 2. This is an immense improvement over Lightroom 1 - which I loved and have used extensively ever since it ‘grew’ out of Pixmantec RawShooter - a previous favorite of mine. I used the new gradient tool in this image which I took whilst at Claire’s last week. It balanced the bright window and its glare perfectly. I also added a little vignette. Here is the original photo and the modified one
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July 27, 2008

Last day of leisure

Filed under: Photo a day — john @ 10:27 pm

Today was our last day with Claire so we went into the Gower to get some Salt Marsh Lamb to take home. They are based at Weobley Castle.
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We then had lunch at a local pub. On the way back to Mumbles we passed through Reynoldston where we saw many sheep sheltering from the sun. It must be difficult if you leave your gate open round here.
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We finshed with a last Gelato at Mumbles head.
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