Have racked up 1050 photos...

...on a shiny new Canon a470 on special ex Hardly Normal.

I upgraded my laptop a distro version, had a handful of small problems en route, all sorted & saddled now.

Updating websites via Konqueror is splendidly easy & safe (media://dev/sde1 versus fish://host.name/path/to/directory, drag, drop, rename, whatever).

I am also getting rave reviews for individual shots, & one viewer in Chicago (a city-dweller who likes sunrises & sunsets) is highly pleased to chase a favourite (virtually life-saving) obsession by remote control. WestOz has plenty of amazing sun activity to share, of course, at midwinter temperatures which flabbergast folks from the northern USA, ’coz they’re as warm as their own midsummer days, once translated to Fahrenheit.

Said viewer also enjoys shots of things like a Qualup Bell plant in flower (thank you, King’s Park).

Comments

GregoryO said…

Hey Leon,
Glad things are wandering along at a reasonable pace. I like the PackMan stuff, sounds great - good on you.

From which HN did you get the camera? How much? And ftw, any chance of any left? I can probably find out the last once I've got answers to the first two (:
Ciao,
Greg.

16 August, 2008 00:03

new life for an old (FTX) PSU, improved life for one human

the LEDs on this 5m strip happen to emit light centred on a red that does unexpectedly helpful things to (and surprisingly deeply within) a human routinely exposed to it. it has been soldered to a Molex connector, plugged into a TFX power supply from a (retired: the MoBo is cactus) Small Form Factor PC, the assorted PSU connectors (and loose end from the strip) have been taped over. the LED strip cost $10.24 including postage, the rest cost $0, the PSU is running at 12½% of capacity, consumes less power than a laptop plug-pack despite running a fan. trial runs begin today.

every-application-is-part-of-a-toolkit at work

I have a LibreOffice Impress slideshow that I wish to turn into a narrated video. 1. export the slideshow as PNG images (if that is partially broken — as at now — at higher resolutions, Export Directly as PDF then use ‘pdftoppm’ (from the poppler-utils package) to do the same). 2. write a small C program (63 lines including comments) to display those images one at a time, writing a config file entry for Imagination (default transition: ‘cross fade’) based on when the image-viewer application (‘display,’ from the GraphicsMagick suite) is closed on each one; run that, read each image aloud, then close each image in turn. 3. run ‘Imagination’ over the config file to produce a silent MP4 video with the correct timings. 4. run ‘Audacity’ to record speech while using ‘SMPlayer’ to display the silent video, then export that recording as a WAV file. 4a. optionally, use ‘TiMIDIty’ to convert a non-copyright-encumbered MIDI tune to WAV, then import that and blend it with the speech (as a quiet b...

boundaries

pushing the actual boundaries of the physical (not extremes, the boundaries themselves) can often remove barriers not otherwise perceived. one can then often resolve an issue itself, rather than merely stonewalling at the physical consequences of the issue.

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