Archive for March, 2008
spending a $100 voucher
I want to post a couple of lists. The one that is more interesting, at least to me, is a list of my cameras. But a list of cameras, of all things, would be wrong without photographs so I will take pictures of them all (7 or 8, I think) and then post the [...]
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Tags: bach, birthday, books, cds, fishpond, nabokov, nine inch nails
in a bit of a low spot
I am in a bit of a low spot at the moment with my chronic fatigue. A week ago, I went round my usual walk far too quickly and this has been enough to set me back in what was a spell of improvement from a state of fatigue.
These guys in the [...]
Filed under: australia, beach, new south wales, photography, the beach, the sea, water | 2 Comments
Tags: australia, beach, boat, boat stuck, boat trailer, boating, cabbage tree bay, nsw, photography
exploring by the caves
This is one of these pictures which somehow seems to make more sense when it is abstracted a bit, as I have done here.
Being an ardent photographer, I have photographed every grain of sand and each rock up and down the coast an hour’s distance each way. There comes a time when it [...]
Filed under: around home, australia, beach, new south wales, photography, rock, rocks, the beach, the sea, water | Leave a Comment
Tags: abstraction, australia, beach, chronic fatigue, cliff, nsw coast, painting, photography, rocks, sand
drawing the hand
A bit of trivia for you – have you ever noticed that in many cartoons people are drawn with only four fingers? Check out the Simpsons for example. Others are the same. I only noticed this a couple of years ago.
I reckon in small cartoon drawing, drawing all the fingers made the [...]
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Tags: cartoon, drawing, four fingers, hand
I posted a coupla days ago that I had got my Maxtor OneTouch III working with a download from the Seagate site. And that was so – all seemed well, did a back-up nicely.
Uh oh, not so good news today – I have had problems reading certain files from the Maxtor but the back-up [...]
Filed under: inkscape | 1 Comment
Tags: download, hardware, hardware not recognized, maxtor, no access, not fixed, still problems, vista
Here is another picture from the throwaway camera. Maybe this shows why I should throw it away. That big blob in the right-hand side is my finger in front of the lens. D’uh!
You can see the price we pay for petrol here in Australia (well, maybe you can’t, it is quite a small picture):
“ULP” [...]
Filed under: around home, australia, my habitat, new south wales, photography | 2 Comments
Tags: australia, fuel, imperial system, metric system, petrol, photography, price of fuel, throwaway camera
the cheap gear
I was in a supermarket a couple of weeks ago and saw a pack of a camera (re-loadable), 2 films, 2 batteries, all for $10, so I couldn’t resist could I? Especially as I often like the poor (poor? at least, different) quality of these cheap throwaway cameras.
I used a film shooting at whatever [...]
Filed under: around home, australia, my habitat, new south wales, old buildings, photography | Leave a Comment
Tags: cheap camera, old building, photography, throwaway camera. black and white
I posted yesterday about software updates now being available for my Wacom tablet for Vista.
Well, when I checked, there is software to update my Maxtor external drive so I downloaded that and installed it and – bingo! – it works nicely now for the first time with Vista.
MS issued a major update for Vista a [...]
Filed under: around home, software | 3 Comments
Tags: maxtor, software, software updates for vista, vista, wacom
good news – Wacom and Vista!
I got a new computer at Christmas time with Vista preloaded. Some problems with Vista but I guess they will get the bugs out in time.
One thing that really upset me was that my Wacom Intuos2 graphics pad would not work, either fully or often not at all.
On a whim, I checked – Googled [...]
Filed under: around home, drawing, software | 3 Comments
Tags: computers, graphics pad, hardware, intuos2, software, wacom, working with vista
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