The person you searched for (Dunstan) has authored 624 comments. They are shown below in reverse date-order, and grouped by the post they belong to:
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| May 2006 | |
| Allergy testing | "I have no idea why she was milking cows. She's a botanist." For some reason I am a big fan of this sentence :o) [view in situ] |
| April 2006 | |
| A hello-and-goodbye kind of post | I added it maybe... 6 months ago. But I didn't mention it -- I thought it'd be fun for people to discover :o) [view in situ] |
| Grrr, hear me roar | I went to Crewe & Alsager College, which was a sort of satellite college of Manchester Metropolitan University. [view in situ] |
| January 2006 | |
| A hello-and-goodbye kind of post | I'm pleased to say that had _nothing_ _nothing_ _nothing_ to do with that product... nothing at all. [view in situ] |
| March 2005 | |
| Another short film of the puppies in the garden | Because for some reason my system requires people to insert an 'http://' before the url.
In the past I've updated your other… [view in situ] |
No they don't. The content of my blog has nothing, not one tiny little thing, to do with what you want, or what the Anonymous Coward wants, or what every reader of my site wants -- it's up to… [view in situ] |
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Fellas, the Internet is plenty big, if you don't like the fact that the contents of my blog reflects what's happening in my life, then bugger off elsewhere. This site isn't just for techies,… [view in situ] |
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"And why hasn't your iSight thwacked a rock or something yet?" Because I am like a panther when I move. And, we don't have rocks in our garden :o) [view in situ] |
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| I am a kitten | Stephen, that's very kind of you to say so, but I worked for myself for 3 years and I've had enough of it. I'd love to be involved in a startup company like Flickr, but as regards being a freelance… [view in situ] |
| February 2005 | |
| A short film of the puppies in the garden | Kev, I realised last night that I boobed in making this film -- when I imported the uncompressed QT files into iMovie HD I didn't select iSight, but something different. I've been wondering why… [view in situ] |
I used iVeZeen:
It's an excellent little program, and so simple even my parents can use it without trouble. [view in situ] |
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It's the Zero 7 mix, off an album called Acoustic 3. UK;
US:
HTH [view in situ] |
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We're going to keep either Squeak or Dotty, we've managed to sell Lotty, and we have a buyer for either Patch or Scrap (they've still to decide). We did think about keeping all of them and just… [view in situ] |
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Scott, it's called a sub-domain and you use your server admin panel to set them up. If you don't know how to do that then ask your hosting company, they'll tell you (they might also say you can't… [view in situ] |
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| World's first? Wimax for train commuters | Oh, bad luck. But I expect you're right, it's probably just at business hours. Thanks for reporting back, Rob! [view in situ] |
Ah, you might be right, Jacques, it's the form in PHPMyAdmin. Good thinking... [view in situ] |
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Ah, thanks for the heads-up, Phil. For some reason the keyboard on my Mac is outputting a pound symbol that's not standard in some way. I've inserted the proper decimal code instead, so… [view in situ] |
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"...I only had my iBook out long enough to fill up Andy's iPod Shuffle with some *proper* music" bah! [view in situ] |
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I've recently been able to dial-up via the modem on my bluetooth mobile phone, but it's nothing like having broadband. (Plus it cuts out when we go through tunnels.) I imagine that the… [view in situ] |
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| January 2005 | |
| A short film of Squeak and Lotty | It's a song I recored off a film: Cry-Baby, starring Johnny Depp. http://imdb.com/title/tt0099329/ I thought it was a lot of fun so I hooked my MiniDisc player up to the video and recorded… [view in situ] |
That should have fixed the autoplay thing, Chris. [view in situ] |
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BTW, today I paid $15 for iVeZeen [1] a wonderful Mac app that lets you record from your iSight. I found it much friendlier than the previous program I'd been using (Quicktime Broadcaster) and… [view in situ] |
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| A short film of the puppies at 13-days old | You're probably right Jeff. If someone from Blink 182 or the Beastie Boys complains I'll give them a puppy to placate them. Thank god I haven't used an Ozzy Osbourne song... [view in situ] |
| A short film of the puppies with their eyes open | The title of the song attracted me, what with the puppies being "small things", and also (though the film might not show it) the slightly frantic nature of the song matched the puppies behavior… [view in situ] |
| A short film of the week-old puppies | I think I had to use it because without it the bit of the background image that is "hidden" outside the li becomes visible. I know it shouldn't be visible, but it was. Using oveflow:hidden was the… [view in situ] |
It's a bug in Firefox, Andrew. The damn thing balks when I set a certain style on my comments and sets my numbers to zero. I never got around to working around it. [view in situ] |
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Hmm... I think I missed an apostrophe off "Puppies' Names" in the credits section... damn. [view in situ] |
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| Lotty and Dotty | She's good thanks, Brian. She's pretty much back to her normal self now, except she has big dangly dog-boobs, which aren't at all attractive. Obviously. [view in situ] |
Michael, I'll be posting some small videos over the weekend so you can meet all the puppies. I'll tell you the other two names then :o) [view in situ] |
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Strangely similar, David. My photo might be popular in dorms at the West Midlands School for Guide Dogs... [view in situ] |
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| Scrap lying on his back | I am getting my work done, but only just. Not only do I have stuff to do for my day job, but I'm also doing some writing at the moment, and it's that which has produced such a protracted silence on… [view in situ] |
This is my favourite photo of the puppies so far :o) [view in situ] |
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| Poppy has puppies | Paul, the spell checker is the one built into Apache. It's based on this system: http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2… [view in situ] |
Poppy gave birth at home, in the cage you can see in the photos. Mum helped pull the puppies out out when needed (a couple were the wrong way round), and cleared the much away from their faces, but… [view in situ] |
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"I have just three questions: are puppies easy to care for, how is Apple, and what's Mr Steve J like?' (1) At this stage, very easy - you just keep them warm and let the mum look after them.… [view in situ] |
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I guess we'll be giving them away when they're old enough. Mum and Dad don't want any more dogs, they just wanted Poppy to experience having pups of her own, and she was getting on a bit (in fact,… [view in situ] |
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I guess she started giving birth at about 0940, and finished at about 1730, so it took her just under eight hours to have all five. There was a long, long gap between number four and number five… [view in situ] |
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We think: Squeak (girl), Dotty (girl), Lotty (girl), Patch (boy), and Scrap (boy). All named after their behavior and appearance in the first 24 hours... [view in situ] |
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Yes, I'm afraid that writing, the new job, getting sick, Christmas, moving, not having web access, moving again, The Girlfriend visiting, getting sick again, and a host of other things has rather… [view in situ] |
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| Scrap lying on his tummy | Martin: because Firefox has a bug in it, and I never find time to try to work around it. [view in situ] |
Re. iPod - I actually don't have one. I was going to buy one last December but in the end decided I needn't bother since I worked from home and was always close to my music. I'm going to wait until… [view in situ] |
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It's like holding a fat mouse... (Cue penis jokes.) [view in situ] |
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| December 2004 | |
| Poppies everywhere | Aaron, you're right, it is a simple picture, in fact it's much simpler to make than even your explanation. The neat part is the photo itself, not how it was achieved. [view in situ] |
| November 2004 | |
| A new job | Andrew, I put the livesearch feature up a couple of weeks ago. It wasn't entirely finished (I can't recall if it works in IE), but I got so tired of sitting on it I figured I'd just put it live and… [view in situ] |
"...what exactly are you going to be doing?" Sorry fellas, I'm not allowed to say :o/ [view in situ] |
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The Girlfriend, I'm afraid, is staying in San Francisco. We'll be together for Christmas (she flies in on the 20th) and we'll see each other in March when I go to SXSW, but other than that it's… [view in situ] |
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Unfortunately not, Simon. I'm going to be working in the UK office for 6 months, and then (and only then) will I qualify for an L1B visa, which will let me transfer to the US office. The H1B… [view in situ] |
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| Audio tape to MP3 | Straight comedy: Tony Hancock.
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Gabriel, I've a fairly large collection of audio books (about 120 of them) as well as lots of comedy tapes. In all I guess I have about 150 'items' I need to copy... God knows how many hours worth… [view in situ] |
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| Solving CSS problems for Mozilla Europe | It's just you. The access navigation is useful for everyone. [view in situ] |
Will, thanks for your suggestion but the point is that I needed to use 'top' not bottom' because I had to position the <ul> relative to the _top_ of its parent div. If I'd used 'bottom'… [view in situ] |
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It's perfect in Opera 7.52 on the Mac, and as Paul and Chris said, it works on the later versions of Opera on Windows and Linux. I can't go testing every version of every browser on every… [view in situ] |
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In IE/Mac if you resize the page once it's loaded, then the menu kicks perfectly into place, Philippe. I have no idea why IE/Mac does that, but since it wasn't a target browser, I didn't bother… [view in situ] |
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I don't know, Turnip, as I say, it's hard to make judgments on other people's decisions unless you know what's happened to lead them to this point. But let's stop that branch of the discussion… [view in situ] |
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I looked for an archived copy of the 'red version' of http://mozilla-europe.org, but I couldn't find one. I imagine the guys at Moz-EU have a copy, but short of getting that and hosting it myself I… [view in situ] |
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I'm not writing it up again: if you're really interested, you'll figure it out! As for IE, it gets no fancy box styling so the heading and paragraphs will look the same as all the others.… [view in situ] |
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| Applying CSS to external services | Tom, as Mike says all it would need would be a very specific rule placed in a style sheet which was declared after the users style sheet, and Mr Poll would have control over things such as… [view in situ] |
| Berkeley versus Arizona | Oh, and I'm terribly sorry about your ankle :o( [view in situ] |
I HATE that episode of Friends!! [view in situ] |
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When I was a kid (and playing union) I played in every single position except tighthead prop (on the right of the scrum). At university (where I played league) I was a utility back, so I fitted in… [view in situ] |
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John, I don't doubt that they're jolly strong, or that most of them are amazingly fit, I was just pointing out that had I spent my money on running those teams, I'd be rather disappointed with… [view in situ] |
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Wonderful spot, Lord Conway! If I'd realised at the time I could have heaved a chair at him or something... [view in situ] |
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It's a disturbing trend, I agree Mike, and I'm afraid that the next few photo posts are just as bad, as the only pics I could get from the game were from the sidelines behind the players. It's… [view in situ] |
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| Touchdown, Tim Mixon | Um... the stabilizer only kicks in if you've been focusing on the same object for about 2 seconds, so I doubt this photo would have made it start up. As for panning, I don't really know, you'd have… [view in situ] |
I think their stadium was astro, actually... yes, just checked, it's astro. [view in situ] |
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| Small dog on Stinson Beach | Yup, I have one screwed onto the lens all the time. [view in situ] |
| October 2004 | |
| Hitler who? | It is. I was joking :o) [view in situ] |
| Die photos, die! | "... and of course cat-based pornography." Seth, that's going down as one of the more disturbing comments on this blog. [view in situ] |
| Skim-surfer on Stinson Beach | The photo wasn't tweaked, I just used a fairly long exposure (something like 0.8 seconds) to get the motion effect. [view in situ] |
| Small dog on Stinson Beach | Um... maybe. But little dogs run very quickly, and I only had this one chance for a shot. I still think it works, but then maybe that's because I was there, and can project what I saw into the… [view in situ] |
I happen to like it for it's lack of doggy-detail :o) [view in situ] |
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| Big dog on Stinson Beach | Lots of info out there on it, Gregg: What is it:
Is it useful for… [view in situ] |
It was big, and it was furry, and yes, both the GF and I gave it a hug. It was impossible not to :o) [view in situ] |
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I do plan to add in EXIF data at some point, but I need to do a bit more research on it before I start putting in the effort of tagging everything. And it's not 'turning into a photoblog', I'm… [view in situ] |
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| Sweeping the infield | Ah, slight problem with me forgetting to fill in the UTC timestamp of the post. All fixed now :o) [view in situ] |
| Lemur therapy | *keeps quiet for now* [view in situ] |
Damn, those midgets are good at photography! Thanks for pointing us at those pictures, Bryan, I'm going to have a good nose through them :o) [view in situ] |
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| Sigh | Don't know, it looks like a big chopstick :o/ [view in situ] |
| Diet Pepsi, the choice of Athlets | England _is_ a country, it's just that we're politically grouped (as that definition says) with Scotland, Ireland, and wales, into Great Britain and the UK. But we're still a country. [view in situ] |
| Oi chihuahua | The original image was pretty poor, I had one chance for a quick shot, in not-so-good lighting conditions, and with a bit of a crappy background. You can see the original… [view in situ] |
Desaturating it wouldn't have done any good at all since the colours in the initial image weren't very interesting, and as a simple black and white image it didn't do much better. This version… [view in situ] |
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| Baseball batter at Oakland Coliseum | We were actually about 10 rows from the very, very top, but I sneaked down to the very front and snapped a few pics. I also nearly caught a ball while I was there; I was busy looking through the… [view in situ] |
It is in danger of becoming a photoblog, isn't it?
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| September 2004 | |
| Shoes on a wire | The GF suggested the same thing. You and she must hang with the same bad crowd, Eric ;o) [view in situ] |
There are tons of the damn things here in San Francisco: from where I stood to take that photo I could see three other pairs, including one pair of infant's shoes. As for retouching: no I didn't… [view in situ] |
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| Sin | I can't remember; probably something like "HARBIN'S". [view in situ] |
Nope, never used GIMP, although I have looked at it.
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I just saw the sign, and it looked kinda cool, and I think my brain must have recognised the potential, so I snapped away :o) [view in situ] |
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| Shooting things | Because the damn spell checker that's built into apache is American. I'm working on adding in a UK version though... [view in situ] |
I don't shoot 'a lot', Scott (hey, that rhymes) — if you look again you'll see I say I've never shot anything more powerful than an air-gun before. (And the only time I fired an air-gun was when… [view in situ] |
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Ah, excellent, thanks Jonas, I feel much better about that.
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| SBC Park | It's supposed to look that way. It was going to be seamless and smooth, but I didn't have enough images to do that, and then I coudln't get a panorama program to work on the Mac, so I gave up… [view in situ] |
| Baseball pitcher at SBC Park | SBC Park was just what I expect from American sports, huge, lots of walking to get to your seat, and lots of off-limit places that I really wanted to go. I had a good time there though, and will… [view in situ] |
It took a couple of hours in total, although if I was doing it again, it'd be a lot quicker.
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| Redesign explained: tag transformations | Justin, I already do that: <dro:person value=""></dro:person> [view in situ] |
| Rubber ducks | The damn apache spell checker module uses an American-only dictionary!
That's also one reason why it says: "X… [view in situ] |
| August 2004 | |
| Seagulls | Steven, all I did was load the RAW file into Photoshop, bump up the exposure 1 notch, and then tweak the levels slightly to bring them into the correct alignment. Nothing beyond that :o) [view in situ] |
| Rubber ducks | A wee bit, Rob. I'm shooting digital and storing them as RAW files, so when I open them in Photoshop I get to apply more or less exposure, sharpening, vignetting, etc, etc. It gives a much… [view in situ] |
| Redesign explained: time presentation | Chris, you can't directly use my code for WordPress, you'll have to go find one of the many WP plugins that people have written since I posted this entry and implement that. For example, here's… [view in situ] |
| Site updates | Ah, thanks Jeff, I'll fix that. As for the spell checker, I'll write it up at a later date, but for now go see this post, it's where I started out: http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2… [view in situ] |
| Facts from Oliver Letwin | Richard, I know it's easy to make facts look dramatic when they don't mean much, and it's easy to compare unlike with unlike, to be dramatic, but the facts that Letwin presents are useful highlight… [view in situ] |
| Redesign explained: tag transformations | Excellent, thanks Greg! [view in situ] |
| Swallows and Frogs | Turnip, it is a frog, it's a Common Garden Frog, we have them all the time in our garden, and we even compared his markings to those in our Frog Book. All the evidence says he's a frog :o) [view in situ] |
David:
Very good question though, I can't believe I didn't think to slip that in somewhere :o) [view in situ] |
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| The Shadow/Highlight tool in Photoshop CS | Right then, I got James's altered image, and I have to say he's done very well: http://1976design.com/blog/images/… It doesn't quite seem to have the contrast of the Photoshop version,… [view in situ] |
Well, I've sent James the original image (a fairly small 500x333px file) which I used for my example above, so we'll see how he gets on. I guess the best thing to do would be to email whoever… [view in situ] |
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Ben, that's why I said "not that it always results in a better image, of course", my example was there to highlight the sorts of dramatic changes you can make. It's up to you to decide to what… [view in situ] |
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Mark, I think it's much more than just a repackaged Curves tool — I certainly was't able to replicate the results of Shadow/Highlight using only Curves, but then maybe that's just me. [view in situ] |
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| 28 years ago today | Gosh, well thanks to everyone who posted such kind comments on the day, and also to all the people who emailed; it's certainly the most "Happy Birthday's" I've ever received (from so many parts of… [view in situ] |
That wasn't a "smug" Ahem, that was a "Idon'tknowifyou'reinterested" Ahem. Thanks anyway :o) [view in situ] |
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They are ugly aren't they? Maybe it's so their mothers look beautiful in comparison, as a reward for doing all that hard work. [view in situ] |
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Hey, I'd forgotten about those blue sunglasses; they were cool! [view in situ] |
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Ah, Happy Birthday yourself, Craig :o) I was born in Norfolk, so the clipping is probably from an east anglian paper. We didn't move to Dorset until a few years later. [view in situ] |
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| A walk in the sun | Steve, a 'drove' is a kind of country lane that farmers use to access their fields; the idea being that they 'drove' their cheep and cows down these lanes. The term also applies to the… [view in situ] |
She's a Jack Russell, Nicolas.
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| July 2004 | |
| Redesign explained: tag transformations | JP, the picture of food is linked from the text "Right, time for dinner…" at the end of the article. And as for your method of displaying images, yes, that's a great way for something like a… [view in situ] |
Drew [1] also suggested using XSLT for the job. If I ever do choose to transform conversations then I'll certainly look into it; it seems like a good opportunity to give that technology a… [view in situ] |
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David, the main reason our code differs so much in length is the fact that I _do_ check for the comment lines — that makes up the bulk of my code I suspect. But yes, it's interesting to… [view in situ] |
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| Summer garden | I just measured the bucket it was in (using the lines you can see in the photos) and came up with: Body: 5cm/2 inches long
Pretty big! [view in situ] |
Ah, yes: I've known for quite some time that my friend's were getting married at the end of July. I also knew that three-months was the longest US visa I could get. I therefore planned my trip so… [view in situ] |
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| Redesign explained: time presentation | Aryan, that would then cause a problem if you decided you wanted to click on the checkbox, or click-drag select some text. The comment would be unselected. The CSS and Javascript for the… [view in situ] |
Simon, it's not deliberate, it's a bug in the browsers. They (sometimes) reset the ordered-list numbering when they get to one of my (class="dunstan") comments. I have no idea why, but I'm going to… [view in situ] |
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Thanks for that David, as I said to Andrew, it's always nice to see an alternative approach. [view in situ] |
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Andrew, thanks for your alternative code, but remember that the 24hr clock never actually reaches 24:00! It's 23:59, and then 00:00 :o) But always nice to see a different appraoch, so thanks for… [view in situ] |
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Thanks for that post Steve, it's nice to see some figures. I coded as I did because, as you say, a) it's nice and simple to understand, and so easier to maintain, and b) because of the… [view in situ] |
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Rimantas, what a great idea! It might be overkill, but it's a cool concept, and one I'll bear in mind :o) [view in situ] |
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Colin, I'm afraid it doesn't work on Safari (which is a bugger, as that's what I use as well). Mark Wubben says it's due to Safari's event handling, and I think he's right, as I've run into quite a… [view in situ] |
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Shawn, I get that same error on certian posts, and that includes the one you highlight. I have no idea why it happens, but I'm going to be revisiting all the comment highlighting code soon so maybe… [view in situ] |
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Matthom, glad you like it, and yes, feel free to use the code :o) [view in situ] |
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Thanks Ken, it looks a bit funny in FF because the font is too big, but in Safari it's just right. I think I might write that up next, along with the image insertion script. [view in situ] |
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| Version 2 | I think so Martin, because everything's fine on my screen right now. 92 all round.
As an aside: 92 comments! Crikey! [view in situ] |
Faruk, I'm sorry! I hate it when people get my name wrong (they even do it in my own blog comments), so I'm sorry to have done it to you. I've only had 4 hours sleep in the last 48 hours (I've… [view in situ] |
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Robert said: "Underneath "posted 2 days blah blah" it says "Alert Robert Lofthouse to your comment" - I don't want to alert myself, so that should be removed on the previewing section" If I… [view in situ] |
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Hmm, I can't replicate that problem, Jeff. What browser are you using? [view in situ] |
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Mark, Jorge, I'm writing-up the rational behind splitting my CSS as the first of my explanation posts, so keep your eyes peeled. [view in situ] |
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Waylman, that's exactly what's happening on Tobi's machine, and your solution is perfect; thanks very much for posting it here! [view in situ] |
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Thanks for pointing out those two little problems, Frank; I'm in the process of fixing both of them :o) [view in situ] |
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Tim, I'm afraid not. I have limited time I can spend on the blog, and so while people are welcome to take the Javascript I write and adapt it for their own needs (while sticking within the CC… [view in situ] |
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David, in future try writing http://xmouse.ithium.net, I think the script is deciding that your url is not a url because it doesn't start with http or www. I'll look into it though. As for the… [view in situ] |
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Paul, you were right, I forgot to swap over some urls in the blogroll code when I copied the files from the dev site to the live site. So, the blogroll wasn't getting updated here, but the dev site… [view in situ] |
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Ken, it's a bit of a bugger trying to get the speed right: I tweaked it so they worked just right for me on Safari, but then yes, they're a little slow on Firefox, although (and this is the… [view in situ] |
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JMC, thanks for the first comment!
I'm certainly not… [view in situ] |
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| A weekend away at Sea Ranch | Mo, look in the colophon, it explains everything there:
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| Flexible floats 3 | Simon you do it like this: a:focus::after {
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| Transfer tickets | Just... wait... a... couple... more... days!
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Rob, I've written about the things I've written about because they're so different from my everyday life in Dorset: they're meant to amuse, not to convey complaint. If they don't amuse you, then… [view in situ] |
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| Laptops as social aids | Not a problem, I'm glad you came back and weren't upset too much. Thanks for the kind note :o) [view in situ] |
He is! He only has a 12in Powerbook! ;o) [view in situ] |
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Thanks for the tip, Aryan, but I bought one about two and a half months ago, so I've had good use out of it already:
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Victoria, I know that a few people with disabilities read my site, but I don't know if anyone who is permanently house bound does, I guess the odds would suggest not, but I'd be interested to hear… [view in situ] |
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Yes, Tom, you may buy an iBook, but that means you'll only able to help injured people, not full-on cripples. Still, every little helps; so go out and Rendezvous among the poor... [view in situ] |
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| Barbequing with the rich and famous | Hey Sabrina! Nice to see you back :o) Crumbs, I'm sorry, what can I say... I was waiting for you, but you seem to have gone and got engaged, and... wait a minute! You're engaged to John… [view in situ] |
Yes, 'girlfriend' :o) I haven't written much about her, because she's not an on-line kind of gal, but I'm sure she'll make appearences here every now and then :o) Her first mention was back… [view in situ] |
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I like that advert, Martin :op [view in situ] |
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| June 2004 | |
| England 5 Portugal 6 | David, we have a giant TV, but they don't show Euro 2004 on the regular US networks. I think you have to pay for it. [view in situ] |
*keeps a stiff upper-lip* Well done, Marco... well done :o) [view in situ] |
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| Mission Delores Park | Ai ai ai ai!! [view in situ] |
I'm well aware that Mexican people speak Spanish, but I'm writing a silly story here, not an encyclopedia entry. On my web site, Mexicans speak Mexican :o) [view in situ] |
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| At Safeway deli counter, part two | Testing [view in situ] |
Ha ha, I like that picture, Karen :op [view in situ] |
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| Saucer of milk for table three | Ha ha, no they weren't talking about me :op [view in situ] |
Ah, good spot, Mark -- I hadn't noticed because Safari didn't show any problems with the page at all, I wonder why that was? Fixed now :o) [view in situ] |
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| Busy having fun | Very good point, there's 80 to get me going again. [view in situ] |
| May 2004 | |
| The PHP code behind my archive page | They don't work as intended in Safari either, Kris; I have to do something about that... but thanks for the heads up! [view in situ] |
Rahul, it could be an accessibility problem, but I do use quite verbose title text for each link, so I think that gets around the issue. And, yes, it was a conscious design decision; I think the… [view in situ] |
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Hannes, that's excellent, thanks very much for posting your code, I think I'll implement that on my site. Always happy to be shown the optimum way to code PHP or SQL: most of my code is highly… [view in situ] |
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I should point out that there's a WordPress hack for this:
So if you like my archive format and you run WordPress, check that out. [view in situ] |
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| Dance like nobody’s watching | Just as good! [view in situ] |
| The curious case of the footloose footwear | Ah! Very good, David, I'd forgotten about that :op [view in situ] |
Here's the 'Leave a Book' thing, Alistair, it seems to be called 'BookCrossing':
Interesting idea :o) [view in situ] |
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| Glamour, 24/7 | That's very odd, they must have altered their wishlist urls, because that wasn't my wishlist at all! All fixed now :o) [view in situ] |
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| The making of a Hollywood car chase | Two interesting sites I found while writing this: http://www.hottr6.com/triumph/BULL…
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| Senses | "...limited taste..." means if it doesn't have fat, salt, sugar, lemon, vinegar or spice on it, then it pretty much doesn't taste of anything. Oh, and sour things, I can taste 'sour'. Bleugh. [view in situ] |
Good god, you're right, Joe. My word sounds more like something to do with 'offal'. I wonder how that got through the spell checker? :o/ [view in situ] |
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| A shared language | Ha ha, very good David :op [view in situ] |
| Text-messaging | Stupid spell checker!
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| Being single | Posting when you're drunk ... *shakes head* ... [view in situ] |
| April 2004 | |
| Howdy, from the West Coast | ColetasSoft, unfortunately those are both windows programs, and I'm a mac boy now. But thanks for the thought. Actually, I couldn't find any mac softare, so if anyone knows of any... [view in situ] |
Graham, I'm here under the visa-waiver programme, and am officially indulging in a three month photography trip. I don't think there's any chance of getting a visa to stay here and just work… [view in situ] |
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Fool! :op [view in situ] |
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If you touch those posters, Marcotte, I'll send the Queen's Own Beefeaters around to drag you off to the Tower! [view in situ] |
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I know, Margaret, very sheltered :o)
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Colin, the header _might_ change, but I doubt it. It takes such a lot of effort to do that I don't think I have the time. Plus I like to see what's happening back home :o) [view in situ] |
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Keith, the guide book says the Fiddlers Green is the "best place to meet an Irish person in San Francisco" :o) [view in situ] |
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Thanks David, I haven't quite got used to the Mac yet and I keep finding things have cut and pasted in strange ways. All fixed now. [view in situ] |
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| Old before its time | It's going with me to use as a test machine, Andy. Sorry about that, but I have to be able to view things on the PC when I build them. [view in situ] |
Well well, I am much cheered - it seems I could return the laptop and get the new model, but I'm not going to. Ethan pointed out the hardware problems that often dog new hardware releases from… [view in situ] |
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I got the educational discount, Tony :o) And as for the import duty - yes, that's always a pain in the backside, but I've had that in mind the whole time, so it's a little easier to… [view in situ] |
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Is everyone else out there made of paper and glass? My current Dell laptop weighs slightly more than the 17in PB, and I can carry that around and have it on my knee without any trouble at all. I… [view in situ] |
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Yeah, I know, I know... I was just a little miffed, that's all. Checking the web now it seems everyone in the world knew about these updates, except me! :op Never mind, I shall ignore it and… [view in situ] |
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Yes, luckily I not only paid US dollars, but also got a sneaky discount, so until this evening I was amazingly happy with the whole deal. It's still great, but it's just a little frustrating :o/ [view in situ] |
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| The world’s largest unexploded bomb | Jay, I could have simply said "Luckily it's not under my farm", but this way I get to have a friendly dig at you Belgiums as well ;o) And your beach trips sound excellent - I think I would have… [view in situ] |
Whoops! How right you (both) are. I shall change that now :o) [view in situ] |
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That map _does_ show that the bombs are in Belgium... are you getting confused over what the maps show? The left hand one depicts the countries, and clearly shows the two towns as being in… [view in situ] |
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| Trip 1: itinerary | I am rather lucky, aren't I Karen? Thank heavens for the Internet, that's all I can say :o) [view in situ] |
I've been to NYC twice now and thoroughly enjoyed it, but I don't think I'd like to go back - it didn't hold so much allure for me that I'd visit again and leave other parts of the States… [view in situ] |
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| Frickin’ mouth ulcers | Holy cow! Well, Dale, it's nice to know (in an awful way) that I'm not alone in this :o/ Good luck to you too, fella. [view in situ] |
| Sour crop | That had me giggling away this morning :oD [view in situ] |
So far my research has found the following quoted as signs of lunacy: [1] throwing stones at strangers
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I think the oil and yogurt are used becauese the fermenting food causes an acidic buildup in the crop, and that helps to counteract that. [view in situ] |
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| Tidying up | Thanks Amanda :o) I like this photo of yours:
Great eyes. [view in situ] |
No Chris, it's 'when' - my new mac is sitting at a friend's house, just waiting to be picked up when I visit him in two weeks! 17in G4 Powerbook with 1.5GB of RAM.... Mmmmmm....… [view in situ] |
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Marc, I must admit I don't use any software for sorting the images out - I just use the winXP file system. Every time I take some photos they go into a folder marked with the date and a… [view in situ] |
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Paul, I think the dog is a mix between a South African Cattle dog, an Australian Collie, and something else (which I can't recall). It's certainly an amazing working dog -- well, they both are. [view in situ] |
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When you have such a wonky face as mine and you want to do self-portraits, you're not left with much to photograph other than other bits of your body... and doing the back means your face is hidden… [view in situ] |
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Ha, that made me laugh, Karen :oD [view in situ] |
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Yes, I wish I'd bought a DVD writer much earlier... this has taken days and days and days - a terrilbe waste of time. Do it while it's manageable! [view in situ] |
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See, I told you I was a Killing Machine... maybe next time you'll take my IM karate attacks more seriously. [view in situ] |
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| Cheep cheep, baaaa | "Well, vive to that, and an eclair for both of us" :o) [view in situ] |
I think we used to do ear tags, but when the lambs are born you have to spray them otherwise you can't tell who goes with what without catching everything and reading the tag. We also sprayed… [view in situ] |
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Maybe it was a sign? Like those patches of rising damp people find and claim is the spitting image of Jesus, or a sugar cube that looks like Muhammad from a certain angle, in the right… [view in situ] |
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I'm glad Jon has picked up on that. I'd like to state here and now that anyone caught writing with a biro on any of our animals is going to get a good kicking. If you want to scribble on something… [view in situ] |
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| Dominique | Dad just muttered that "lot's of people use it", but I think you're right, Al; I've never seen that funny little green bottle outside their bathroom. Oh, I'm wrong! They've changed it, bottle… [view in situ] |
Actually that's a lie - cookies work for me on either url, though I don't understand why :o/ [view in situ] |
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I think it's to do with the url - sometimes people visit to:
and other times to:
The cookies only work with the www. one.
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Deb, it's just a photobooth picture, taken at Brussles train station (we were on our way back from a (very nice) short holiday to Brugge). No tweaking needed :o) [view in situ] |
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Ha! Thanks Tom, now I smell like my Dad :oD [view in situ] |
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Grayson, we were a couple for a little over a year - living together the whole time - and it's been a little over two years since we broke up. Even 12 months after it happened I couldn't bare to… [view in situ] |
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Memories are much more powerful than photos, you're right Sian. I wrote tons about that, but then got rid of it all -- I'm not very good at writing on matters of the heart. *Bing Bong*
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Um... two and a bit years, Sergio. Nice to finally have that monkey off my back :o) [view in situ] |
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I ought to point out that she's not dead - we just broke up. I didn't realise it sounded like that until someone kindly pointed it out :op [view in situ] |
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| Photo manipulation | I'm sure this is one of those arguments, where neither side can truly convince the other to change their point off view. Oh well :o) [view in situ] |
Ben, Stefan's right -- all the colour and noise was already there in the original, I just brought it out. The reason it's so grainy is cause it was shot with a 400 ASA film, and then scanned in… [view in situ] |
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Stefan, I'd take issue with some of your points there: ----
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Which is why I said "I don't know that this is entirely a good idea." On the one hand I'd like to help people, but on the other hand it's nice to retain some of the mystery of how you do… [view in situ] |
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| Quotations | That's a great link, thanks Margaret! [view in situ] |
Stuart, you know far too much about far too many odd things ;o) [view in situ] |
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| Retro: La criada | I got it years (4?) ago from an image library called SuperStock. The collection is called 'Vintage'. I think I asked to get a CD with low-res images on for mock-up purposes. [view in situ] |
She was like a Mexican Ginger Rogers, singing and dancing and hopping around tapping her feet together :o) They're good those photos aren't they? They're from a CD I have of old, black and white… [view in situ] |
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| A pair for every day of the week | I dunno, Phil - and they were all different sizes as well, some tiny ones, some huge ones. Very odd :o) [view in situ] |
Damn you, Hans! The image I put on the web is only 1600px wide. Although the full one is about 1800 wide, I figured no-one would be browsing about 1600px and so it'd be a waste of… [view in situ] |
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Thanks Alistair, but that's going to be first on my list of things to do (once I find a place to live) - I have to keep working and I can't do that without web access... [view in situ] |
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I'm always so paranoid I check about a billion times. I'm worried I might have accidently left a hunting knife in my coat or something bizzare. But I can imagine my mother doing it, I must admit… [view in situ] |
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No, you're right, I haven't really posted about it before. I'm off to live in San Francisco for three months, to take photos and generally hang out. I have to come back to the UK for a friend's… [view in situ] |
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| Retro: Arizona poems (in jest) | Well, mktime gets (creates) a unix timestamp for a date [1], and gmmktime gets a unix timestamp for a GMT date [2]. I was using the gmmktime on a date that the server was returning, but the… [view in situ] |
Ah, I fixed the calendar, it was due to improper use of PHP's gmmktime(). Thanks for spotting that, chaps. [view in situ] |
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| God is in the typos | We've got it all 'round here :op [view in situ] |
| Some photos of home | Everything runs off the laptop, Colin. Though I am connected to my parents' desktop machine, and that's where all my MP3s sit. It's a Dell Inspiron 8100 before anyone asks, and the screen is a… [view in situ] |
Thanks Neal, I've seen that before - amazing isn't it? [view in situ] |
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Those things on the ceiling are actually what started the whole post - they're glow in the dark stars, and you stick them on your ceiling when you're a kid… [view in situ] |
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Sure: http://1976design.com/blog/commonp…
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I do use a merging program for some things (in fact, the 'office' one was done with a merging program), but the other ones, the messy, complex ones, I just do by hand. The program I use is just… [view in situ] |
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Excellent! I'm terribly unfit really - I'm blessed with a good physique that seems to withstand anything I throw at it (like sitting in front of a computer for 18hrs a day), but I'm no-where… [view in situ] |
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"where you lay on your stomach and push yourself up with your arms" - that's right, we call it a 'press-up' here, and in the US it's a 'push-up'. The bar is used for bar-curls (with some of… [view in situ] |
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It used to be orange, now it's just-the-orange-side-of-yellow. Very nice when the sun comes in in the morning - everything glows :o) [view in situ] |
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Markku, they're easy - just take a whole bunch of photos of something, then slap them all into one Photoshop document and overlay them until you're happy with the result. (Sometimes you might… [view in situ] |
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Tony, I do like the gym ball, and it's been really good for my back - when I use it properly. The problem is that I can't get close enough to my desk to sit on it correctly 100% of the time, so… [view in situ] |
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Well, you're already here, Jon, so I figured it couldn't get any worse ;o) [view in situ] |
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Yes, the ball is my chair. Actually, I have two chairs, I have the ball and also one of those 'praying' chairs, where you sort of sit and kneel at the same time. The ball can be found… [view in situ] |
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It's our computer room, and it's the one room in the house we've never redecorated. The last people to live here (20 years ago!) installed a very odd fish pond thing in the corner (those blue… [view in situ] |
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Re. fish-eye lens: tell me about it. I plan to get one when I'm in the States, and prices are lower... [view in situ] |
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It's the same every April the 1st, the damn RAF think it'd be funny to bomb us. The first year, yes, it was a bit of a laugh, but after that it's just become tiresome. Ooh, gotta go, here comes… [view in situ] |
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| Retro: Very arranged marriages | Thanks for explaining the system you two, that was very interesting. [view in situ] |
Niket, I know it's rather rude to ask, but how old are you? I'm amazed that young people want to find their partners that way... though that said, I guess it's a good way to cut to the chase -… [view in situ] |
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Oh, it says "Online edition of India's National Newspaper". Are they lying? The swines! [view in situ] |
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| March 2004 | |
| Easy CSS drop shadows | "Create a 2x2 table..." Oooh, let me stop you there, Chris. This code is all about achieving a drop-shadow effect without having to resort to extraneous mark-up, and _especially_ not resorting… [view in situ] |
The simplest way would be to grab the PNG file from Sergio's follow-up article:
Otherwise just use the photoshop file I supplied (in my post, above),… [view in situ] |
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Check out my (messy) CSS file, and a post like this one:
The style you're interested in is called 'img-gal'. That should hopefully do what you want. [view in situ] |
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Oh, well then you're buggered. Sorry! :o) [view in situ] |
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No, you're right, that's not possible with my simple method. But see here:
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| Retro: Adventures on Speedway Boulevard | It's a "Beware of Pedestrians" sign that someone has stuck a hula-hoop on, to make a "Beware of Hoola-hoopers" sign :o) [view in situ] |
They better have an IHOP or a Waffle House in San Francisco, or I'm going to be dissapointed :o) [view in situ] |
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I've been trying to think of one, Karen. When you're out and about in the day, the crappiest place to eat is usually McDonalds or Burger King.
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My cousin Kim (an Australian) was in Alaska with an Italian friend a few years back. One of the people there asked them where they were from: kim: "I'm from Australia"
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| Retro: There ain’t no water in that there river | Karen, my story about the people I met at the bus stop is now up:
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Writing tips? Gosh... um, not really, I don't know much myself - I just get the basics of the story down, then umm and ahh over it for a long time until I'm happy with the tone and direction, then… [view in situ] |
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Nice story, Karen :o) I have one of those 'talked with a felon' tales lined up as well (I'll post it next week), and oddly enough it happened at a bus stop - public transport puts you in touch… [view in situ] |
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Or, I guess it could be an erection, the size of a shitsu dog... that might make my story appeal to a different readership... [view in situ] |
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An erection that a male shitsu dog gets. And being very little dogs... [view in situ] |
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Sorry Chris - I've uploaded a larger version and linked it through the image in the post, as usual. You can even make out Jim, sitting on his porch :o) [view in situ] |
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| Flexible floats 3 | I guess Mark meant this:
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Not at all, Ben, I just bumble my way through these things with the help of much cleverer friends :o) [view in situ] |
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Ben, that's pretty much what I was doing in Version 2, but I really wanted to get rid of the loop. Loops take time, and I'd like to make the thing as fast as possible. But yes, if I was trying… [view in situ] |
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That's because the overall containing div (div#container) is sized to a max-width of 60em. So when you reduce your font size, you reduce the width of the container, which reduces the width of the… [view in situ] |
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Ah, thanks Andrew, I'll have to sniff that out as well. Damnit. [view in situ] |
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I found the same thing, Andy, I have no idea why it behaves like that. That image file is the dropshadow for all the pictures, applied via CSS - maybe IE doesn't cache images that are mentioned in… [view in situ] |
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| Retro: Arizona poems (in jest) | Hee hee :o) [view in situ] |
In fact it does highlight the day that the post was made (the day in question sits on a #eee coloured square), but I fear it may be too understated for your monitors to cope with. Subtle colouring… [view in situ] |
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Damnit, so it is :o( I shall look into it... [view in situ] |
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| Flexible floats 2 | Comments are now closed for this entry, please leave any remarks relating to this stuff over at 'Flexible Floats 3' http://www.1976design.com/blog/arc… Thanks - Dunstan [view in situ] |
| Flexible floats | Comments are now closed for this entry, please leave any remarks relating to this stuff over at 'Flexible Floats 3' http://www.1976design.com/blog/arc… Thanks - Dunstan [view in situ] |
Okay, new code posted here:
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Hans - the three rows appear because IE doesn't support max-width. It's the only page on the site that does look better in IE, you're absolutely right. However, the shitty behaviour it exhibits… [view in situ] |
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Hmm, you're right, Brahm. I'll have to look into that at some point in the future... thanks for the bug report. [view in situ] |
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Right, I've uploaded the new code to the Reading page, and it should work on everything except that older version of Moz that Oliver mentions. I'll write up a revised post after Mark gets back… [view in situ] |
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Okay, thanks for everyone's testing - I just wanted to say that Mark's comments (see above) have made me rethink how I'm doing this, and I now have a much better method. I'll post it here when… [view in situ] |
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"Nice effect. Too bad there were so many hoops to jump through just to get it to work." Yes. The two little CSS rules aren't so bad, but any kind of 'hack' is a pain. "The only gripe I have… [view in situ] |
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Bugger me, _my_ version of IE is dying now as well! Hmm, well, I'll make the changes that Mark suggests and see if that has any effect. [view in situ] |
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That's great, thanks Mark. I'll go through and try to make those changes :o) [view in situ] |
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Ooh, well spotted, Justin, I've fixed that bug now :o) It's amazing how bugs sneak in isn't it? I must have tried that page 20 times before I put it live, and the moment I do, two people (one… [view in situ] |
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Really? I'm on XP Pro, and both FF 0.8 and IE 6.0 work perfectly. Can anyone else confirm or deny this problem on Win2000?
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I love that book, and I like the audio tape even more - Hugh Laurie reads it, and he's just perfect :o) [view in situ] |
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That's right - I had to remove the float for Opera (that's what the extra CSS rules were for). So what you're seeing is what I meant you to see :o) [view in situ] |
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| Retro: Six generationas of baloney | :oD [view in situ] |
He probably tells that story _everywhere_, Mike: "Oh go on, ask me what kind of sandwich! Pleeeeease!" [view in situ] |
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You're right - it *could* have been a multi-step recipie for "embalmed pig trotter and slightly-ruffled lettuce on rye", but I think, having met the guy, that it's not likely. I'm guessing three… [view in situ] |
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Okay, new rule on this site - no more 'Stoopid American' comments! The Brits think they're doing me a favour by sticking it to the Yanks, and of course the Yanks can't help but respond. But… [view in situ] |
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| Server swap | You're right, Rakesh, I felt the urge to go back to basics, so for now the tooltips have gone. Sorry! [view in situ] |
Thanks, Sparticus :o) In fact, he's now Super-duper Naked Dunstan, because (a) I made him into a link, and (b) the :hover should work on IE as well. [view in situ] |
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Things are going wonky... but I'm fixing them as fast as I can *sigh* [view in situ] |
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| Eggs, fresh from the hen house | Pam, I'm afraid I have no idea as to your questions - I'm not a chicken expert. Maybe you should speak to your local vet, I expect he/her would be able to help you. Good luck! [view in situ] |
| Retro: Ordering food in America | Yes, I should say that Molly is a jolly good sport for letting me tell (and embellish) all these stories about her and her beautiful home town of Tucson, Arizona. What a gal. [view in situ] |
They are, Margaret, in the UK you just tend to order what's on the menu. You can say "I don't want chips, could I possibly have veg instead, please?" but that's about as far as it tends to… [view in situ] |
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| Putting your underwear on backwards: the Results | Ah ha! It seems I'm not alone:
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[M], I have many pairs of underpants, but they all fall into one of those four categories. Rough count: [1] Helly Hansen walking briefs: 2 pairs
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*warms hands up* [view in situ] |
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I really can't believe there's a market for M&S thongs in the UK. (S&M thongs, maybe, but that's another matter.) How often is someone browsing through M&S in their beige raincoat, thinking,… [view in situ] |
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Well observed, Sarah, that's exactly what they're for. A well observed tradition in rugby is to warm your hands by putting them down the front of your pants, a fleece lined pair of these would… [view in situ] |
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I think I'll pass on that, Danny :op [view in situ] |
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There's not a lot of gusseting there, Sian, and it all lies flat.
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That's the wind-proof front! [view in situ] |
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I'm not sure, Teller.
...maybe my email's broken? [view in situ] |
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| Putting your underwear on backwards | "Dunstan, why would you want to admit that you had worn your underwear backwards?" Science, Lindsey. It's all in the name of science... [view in situ] |
Thanks, Mark, as you probably worked out, I stole the idea off the 37signals guys. I really wanted it for when people post comments that require moderation - people weren't realising their… [view in situ] |
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Hmm, I won't deactivate it, Garoo, what I'll do is: If the textarea has been modified I'll make 'Preview' bold, and 'Post' normal. If the textarea hasn't been modified I'll make 'Preview'… [view in situ] |
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| Retro: Everyone likes Cox | *shamed* Sorry, Ian! :oD [view in situ] |
Names make for funny business:
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Hey, sorry about your dog, Chad, she looked nice. We used to have Springer Spaniels (what was Priss?), and it broke my heart when they died :o( [view in situ] |
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Oh, I like that one, Snowflake! [view in situ] |
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| Walking on Dartmoor | In the Lakes... I sat on a gate and hung my bottom over one side.
Well, you did ask :o) [view in situ] |
Whoops! Good spot, Andrew, thanks. [view in situ] |
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They're fully grown, just very small. An awfully cute.
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Andrew, your trip sounds wonderful, and is something I've wanted to do since I read Bill Bryson's book on the Appalachian Trail (read it if you haven't already). Good luck, sir! [view in situ] |
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| When I was… | It really was a _very_ short skirt... *dreamy reminisce* [view in situ] |
You have to get the accent right (luckily I'm pretty good at those, but then, you're irish, so...), you have to smile a lot, you have to be funny, and you have to just say and do whatever you want… [view in situ] |
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Yes, 'best bucket' :o) Buckets tend to go through various stages of muckiness on a farm, and I believe at the time the bucket I took was the cleanest, and shiniest of the bunch. The Best Bucket. [view in situ] |
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Oh dear, well, glad to have cheered you up a wee bit, Sian :o) [view in situ] |
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Alastair is three years older than me - so he would have been five at the time. [view in situ] |
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Really? Excellent, because I'm going to America in a couple of months... I shall start perfecting my beautifully enunciated Queen's English ;o) [view in situ] |
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I've tried to fill in a couple of the blank years - still missing ages 1 and 4 though, but never mind... [view in situ] |
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Ah, good spot, David.
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Actually it's a Springer Spaniel, I'm not sure of the difference (maybe there isn't any) but it's one of the many puppies that our dog, Jenny, had over the years. Man, were they cute... [view in situ] |
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It took hours and hours, and it hurt like hell. There wasn't much to do, where I lived back then... [view in situ] |
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| CSS drop shadows, extended | [1] Open up Photoshop.
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Ah. Well those tabby-things are the best thing I've ever used on a web browser. I love them. I didn't used to, but FB changed my mind, and now I can't imagine life without them - non-tabbed… [view in situ] |
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Very cool. It would have been even cooler if I'd done it myself, of course... but never mind :o) [view in situ] |
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Actually Sian, I think you must have visited my site using FF before, because Naked Dunstan has never worked in IE - that bit uses the sliding doors technique, which isn't IE-friendly. IE… [view in situ] |
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Phil, I saw your post on the forum, and your code looks great - the lack of extra markup is spot on, that was my main aim, so it's nice to see you stuck with that as well. Well done, sir… [view in situ] |
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Scott, I'm waiting for Andrew Heyward [1] to develop his table sorting code. He was very kindly taking some personal time to add in some features for me, and as with most "Sure, I'll do that this… [view in situ] |
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He's there isn't he? On the right? Or do you mean, when am I going to make something new? I've got a couple of cool things in the wings, but I'm waiting for a very kind person to do some JS… [view in situ] |
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| Light Angels | I think (and my mother would agree here) that I look sweet and harmless. Grannies are probably clutching their hands to their chests and saying "Awww...", young women are suddenly finding the… [view in situ] |
I knew all of them from blogging, but they didn't all know each others' sites (until I sent the invites out). Andy, Jeremy and Richard knew each other in the real world, but that was all. I… [view in situ] |
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| Snow, by torchlight | I took the photos myself, Ciaran - I set the camera up on a tripod, gave myself a good depth of focus, hit the button and ran in front of the camera while the timer counted down. No-one else… [view in situ] |
| February 2004 | |
| Snow, by torchlight | The purple streaks _are_ figures! It's me! :op Did you click and see the larger versions, Chris? You can see it a bit better then. [view in situ] |
The shutter time was 30 seconds, at 800 asa, and... um, with something like an aperture of 8 or 9.5. I would have done more, but that's the longest the camera does before going into BULB mode. [view in situ] |
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