I mentioned to Paul that I wasn’t sure what this icon was, as I don’t remember installing it. “It must be pirate software!”, replied Paul.
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The Wit and Wisdom of Paul Hart, part 37(b)
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strange exchange
Seeing two church ladies exchange a bootleg copy of The Passion video on the subway this evening …
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Menace on the Roads
Well, they’re letting me drive motor vehicles now. Today I exchanged my UK driving licence for an Ontario driver’s licence (We like our gerunds in the UK). I didn’t know this, but Ontario signed a reciprocity agreement with the UK back in March. I seriously thought I’d have to start from level one — yay!
Though I’ve exchanged a document that was valid until I’d be 70 for one that’s valid only for the next five years, I don’t mind too much. The UK driving licence is a little photocard which has to presented along with a big dumb paper “counterpart licence”. I’m not sad to see that go.
Okay, so now I’m allowed to drive, what colour should my monster truck be?
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saw site rendezvous
Years ago, the best online reference for musical saws was put together by Isabelle Garnier at the University of Bordeaux. It fell off the web a while ago, but thanks to archive.org, you can still read it in all its 1996 glory: Isabelle Garnier’s Musical Saw Home Page.
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WindShare Barbecue last night
We had the WindShare barbecue last night at the foot of the turbine. We had a decent turnout, and it was fun.Stuart Schoenfeld (centre left, with guitar, shaking hands with Paul Gipe) even composed a song for the turbine, which we sang round the barbecue. I recorded it, and the recording may even make it onto this site …
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willow weave
David Hembrow makes baskets. David and I used correspond when we were on the urbancyclist-uk mailing list. I knew he came from a basket-weaving family, and I’m really glad he’s making a living out of it.
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Yay! Even better panoramas with enblend
(Click the image to see the original in its full 1.1MB, 7264 × 992 glory.)I’ve been working with Hugin for a while, but found its colour matching when stitching less than perfect. I just built and tried enblend, which promises much better quality stitching — at the cost of some serious CPU usage.
The above is 8 images, taken when standing at the near the bridge over the Ottawa River. It was handheld, with just a basic Nikon 2MP digicam in auto-everything mode. Can you see the joins?
Hugin just got a load easier to build on Gentoo. You no longer have to jump through hoops of tweaking source to get things to compile. I like the package a lot, and I look forward to using it with my Kaidan panoramic tripod head.
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Oops …
I think a CN freight train has just derailed on the spur behind our house. Last time that happened, Kennedy Road was closed all day.
Nice day for it, tho’.
Update, 11:20: Nah, it was just having a wee sleep on the tracks. It was making noises that a train shouldn’t make, though. Let’s see if the tracks make it through this summer.
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Tsars and Priests
“There seems to be a nasty excrescence on our image of America …” says the artist, ‘Aunty Waihola’. -
Happy Canada Day!
I’m just about to eat burnt meat in a bun whilst drinking beer on the deck. Have fun!
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Images By File Number
Further to ‘The DSCN0001 Project’ yesterday, Ken suggested looking at CIMG0113.JPG from Casio cameras, as “… You might want to try a file a little higher in number. The first might not be very interesting for any camera, you know?” There is at least one blank CIMG0113 there, though.
James added that his method is to google for a topic that may have pictures of groups of people, distort the image in PhotoShop, then paint the results. Here’s an example: Sara @.
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The DSCN0001 Project
Digicams produce sequentially-numbered picture files. Every camera has taken a first picture, and quite frequently these pictures and their original file names make it onto the web.Inspired by a conversation with James Dignan and Ken Weingold, the above is a collage of nine images originally named ‘dscn0001.jpg’ by the owners’ cameras. These thumbnails were found on Google Images, and have been scaled and tiled in a pseudo-random selection.
I don’t who these people are, or what the images are from. The selection and arrangement is arbitrary. The only thing that they have in common are the file names. Somehow, despite their differences, they are strangely related.
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e-mail contact
Since someone gave me a Gmail invitation, I’ve decided to use it as my website feedback address. You’ll find the address on the sidebar (if you’re reading from the main page), or it’s the inevitable scruss at gmail dot com.
I may not check this very often, but I will do so at least weekly. The Gmail user interface is pretty good; some clever use of JavaScript there.
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iRiver standard cable, yeah!
I may eventually stop raving about the iRiver H120, but not any time soon.
One of the only annoyances I have with the H120 is that I’m nearly always leaving the USB2.0 cable for it at home. I was running an errand in a nearby computer store, and found that they had a USB2.0 to digital camera cable. It looked similar enough, so I bought it.
And it works just fine. Maybe I’m too used to old and weird proprietary cables from the past.
Anyway, if you want a spare/replacement cable for your H120, you want a “USB2.0 A to Mini USB2.0 5 pin” cable.
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Say no to Bonsai tomorrow, okay?
Please don’t vote for Stephen “Bonsai” Harper tomorrow. I don’t think we need a very small version of a Bush for PM.
Mind you, I could still be all riled up about seeing Fahrenheit 9/11 last night. Or as it’s called in Canada, Celsius -1715/99, since we’re metric.
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I think I’ve got my thunder, thank you
Ah, a Scarborough dinner: mutton koththu roti and a bottle of Thums Up Indian cola. The soft drink tastes exactly like the colas I used to remember in Scotland, especially Barrie’s Old Time Cola. It’s slightly more spiced than that plain old brand from Atlanta.
Thums Up’s rather improbably tagline is: “Thums Up, I Want My Thunder.” After that much spicy food and soft drink, well …
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An improvement, wouldn’t you say?
Of course, really savvy windfarm management software would have real clickable turbines on the desktop that would show you the state of the whole windfarm … -
The Mayor McCa Experience
Since I had no success/interest when I tried to torrent this show on sharingthegroove, I give you: Mayor McCa Live at Lee’s Palace, 18 June 2004.
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It’s gettin’ so you can’t say thank you no more
It’s my birthday today; call me Jean-Baptiste (a fête worse than death) …
Anyway, I wanted to thank my folks for sending me a card and a gift certificate, so I sent this message:
Subject: thank you!
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 06:53
To: Mum & DadI got the Amazon certificate and the card — thank you so much!
Best Wishes,
StewartWhat did I get a few minutes later?
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: dns; mail-in.freeserve.com
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 Error: Message content rejectedThat’s right; I triggered a virus filter. So all because of bugs in an expensive operating system that I don’t use, I can’t say thanks to my parents.
