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Inspired by my previous post, I have released the CJB-1000 v1.0. This thing has been sitting on my computer for a while and Picasa found it for me again the other day. I’ve tweaked it a bit but can’t be bothered tweaking it anymore. I could have sent this out via an e-mail, but where’s the fun in doing that? [CJB-1000 animated GIF - image missing from migration] * For those of you who don’t know WTF I’m talking about this is an animated picture of one of my mates, CJB, that I created from a photo taken at one of the social get togethers that my company had a while back. That was back when life was easy and work was breezy. Oh yes, it was good back then. We all danced like that at one stage. Well, not all of us actually. I lie. Just CJB. ...

I wish I’d tried this at University. I think the only thing we ever ended up doing was turning all the chairs in a lecture theatre so they were facing the rear wall. Maybe we put a stack of chairs in an elevator as well. Anyway, cool elevator music link is here. *sigh* this reminds me of the fro-bro days.

I just love this day of the year. Nothing screams out “sucked in for being single” more than today. Luckily around work with a bunch of nerdy engineers you don’t notice anything different. Well, no, I might have noticed something different if I moved from my desk today. I stayed firmly planted in front of the computer screen blasting tunes away on my iPod. Nothing says “I love you” more than Rammstein screaming out “Bestrafe mich”. Anyway, I actually feel sorry for the people in relationships who look forward to Valentine’s day because they know they’ll get roses/chocolates/hand made Teddy Bears. Because, you know, Feb 13th and Feb 15th aren’t good enough days for that. If that’s the only day they actually receive that sort of attention? Well… I pity them. ...

This may be the coolest thing I’ve found on the net today, and I don’t know why I haven’t stumbled across it beforehand. It’s called HDR (High Dynamic Range) compression. In a nutshell, it enables a greater range of light to be displayed in a single photo. It’s particularly useful where photos have both light and dark areas. Normally to capture detail in the brighter parts of a scene you’d have to underexpose but then detail would be lost in the darker areas. Conversely, to get detail in the darker areas you’d have to overexpose but then the brighter areas are all washed out. With this technique you get the best of both worlds where both light and dark areas show detail. The only drawback is that you have to take multiple pictures of a scene at different exposures. This requires a tripod to avoid camera shake. ...

This just cracked me up… for about 5 minutes or so. http://sites.gizoogle.com/?url=http://daecks.blogspot.com

I’ve just completely nerded up this site. I think it’s not too difficult to see what I’ve done to accomplish that.

So we’re heading west along the 595 to Fort Lauderdale last night at around 11pm, looking forward to hitting the town after a hectic week at work. At the intersection of the 595 and the Florida turnpike traffic had slowed to an absolute crawl. All I could see ahead of me were flashing lights everywhere and my mate and I were speculating as to what it could be. “Wow, there must be a huge pile up of cars ahead”. Emergency vehicles were bloody everywhere. There were a couple of smashed cars along the side of the road but as it turned out that wasn’t what was causing the problem. We looked towards the exit ramp for the 595 leading onto the turnpike and there were 30 or 40 emergency vehicles parked the whole way along. Then we looked a little more to the right and there were bloody flames everywhere! I don’t know how we missed that to begin with. We didn’t know what the hell was going on. We thought it could have been a plane crash or a petrol tanker. As it turns out a petrol tanker had overturned. ...

Noticed this little charger in the outdoor area not far from my cube: I don’t know what type of bird it was, but it sure was small: He was puffing a little bit, but after a while he flew off to a tree. I hope this little charger finds his little charger friends:

I’m getting sick of using Webshots. I think it sort of sucks a little. The uploading service is pretty flaky, it’s bloody hard to reorganise photos in an album, it crops my photos automagically, and it’s been the same ever since I started using it. I’ve been investigating another online photo album provider, Flickr and am thinking of switching over to that. Does anyone else use it or use a different online photo storage provider they can give a good review for? Now is the time to use the comments section! Or you could just do nothing. Your choice. ...

Heh, this is pretty funny. My friend Omar from work informed me that one (or some) of his other band members had found a site that gave excellent reviews for all the Santos Renuentes gigs that the person had been too. They told him “see, you never know who comes to see our shows”. Well, yes that’s true… but if it weren’t for Omar I doubt that I’d ever had heard of Tobacco Road or Santos Renuentes or whatever. Maybe I would have gone along to see some live music one time and seen their band. If I did take that path, I’d probably have given them a good review anyway ;-) ...