Month: December 2008
WordPress Version 2.7 "Coltrane" Released
WordPress, the publishing platform I use to write and host this website/blog released a new version yesterday. Upgrading from version 2.6.5 was a piece of cake and the administration interface is brilliant – Modern and Clean. You can…
Read More »Getting a 1 Pixel high DIV in IE6
For a web designer, IE6 is a real prick of a browser. You are constantly having to use hacks on CSS to make it work for just one browser, which is now over seven years old. I was…
Read More »More 3D Photos – Side by Side
I’ve had a couple of requests from readers to supply the 3D photos from my post a week or so ago in side by side configuration. Although anaglyphs are convenient for web posting and viewable by almost anyone,…
Read More »Apogee and perigee photos of the moon
In the next few days you have the opportunity to take one of the photos of the moon to make a montage just like this one: Unfortunately, good things take time so you’ll have to wait until 7th…
Read More »Photographing the moon – A followup
Following on from yesterdays post with my photograph of the moon… I wrote about a full moon appearing flat and featureless. To illustrate this, I’ve taken a full moon image from Wikipedia and rotated it by approximately 86…
Read More »Photographing the moon
Tonight was a nice clear night (for London) and after catching a glimpse of a +3.3 magnitude satellite, I decided I should get out my camera gear and experiment photographing the moon. There are a couple of interesting…
Read More »Mac OS X – Changing the default search from google.com
In the tope right corner of Safari is a search box that says Google. Anything you type into this box is searched from google.com (At least on my macbook). There is no way using normal user options to…
Read More »Importing outlook emails into Mac Mail
As part of the transition process from a PC to a Mac, I needed to move all my emails from the Outlook pst file to the folder/file format used in Mac Mail. I came across an incredibly useful…
Read More »Me: Now available in Certified!
I’ve just sat and passed my first Microsoft certification exam making me a MCTS: SQL Server. I spent the best part of two weeks studying for it. My main study guide was the Microsoft Press book: If you…
Read More »A car on a tree stump? – Now on Google street view!
I wrote back in May about a car on a tree stump. Google recently released street view for New Zealand which shows this treestump in it’s full glory. Here again is the photo I took… And here is…
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