Monthly Archives: September 2012

Before going to Mallorca for a weeks holiday recently I got hold of a Polarizing filter for my Nikkor 16-68mm lens. I was interested to see if I could recreate some of the results I’d seen other photographers achieve with respect to

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I was thinking the other day that it might be fun to have a different colour generated every time a page loads. Can’t be that difficult, just some random variables made into a string. concatenating six variables seemed a little on the clumsy side so

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My ThinkPad T43p was on the way out, the XP/Fedora dual boot was slowly grinding to a halt and the cooling fan sounded like it was trying to take off, literally. What to do? I still liked the machine, the

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