http://x111.com the quest for the sp00n Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:48:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's Saturday. Hi. http://x111.com/random/public-service-announcement/ The gods are smiling, I just posted that FH3 wouldn't be released and now Faderhead has just announced that he's found a new label, FH3 will be released on October 10th and he's released the first single on YouTube. And what a gorgeous song. You can read the whole announcement on ... http://x111.com/entertainment/music/faderhead-fh3-is-coming/ Woohoo, it hath arrived! I'm very much looking forward to installing it tonight and giving it a go. The new features look very interesting, I'm curious how much use I'll have for versioning but it's good that it's there either way for when building more CMS-like web apps. The new ... http://x111.com/wordpress/wordpress-26/ Click on the pic for the full version. This technique works so much better with a tripod, in my case a cheapo 10 euro 30cm model. http://x111.com/photography/balcony-view/ Very relaxing, and productive at the same time. Got some important things done, and had time for some quality R & R. Now bring on WordPress 2.6 which is due to be released tomorrow and which promises a load of gallery improvements, so I can finally start uploading all of my ... http://x111.com/happenings/now-that-was-a-good-weekend/ GIMP is an amazing image editing software that allows people with limitless imagination create extraordinary images out of ordinary photos. I'm all for Open Source programs, and use a lot of them for just about every aspect of my computing experience, whether that's professional or in my spare time for my ... http://x111.com/software/25-best-gimped-images/ Now this sucks, I was really looking forward to Faderhead's third cd, but it most likely will never be released. And why? Because with his 2 first releases, the absolutely brilliant in your face FH1 and bass pumping FH2 the man has earned a grand total of -10000 euros. Now don't get ... http://x111.com/entertainment/music/faderhead-no-fh3/ If you like seeing beautiful and unique photographs from all over the world, check out Pixdaus, it's an online gallery with the most amazing photographs. The quality of work on display is simply stunning, good for some ideas if you're into either photoshopping or photography. http://x111.com/photography/pixdaus/ A digital single-lens reflex camera (digital SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera that uses an automatic mirror system and pentaprism or pentamirror to direct light from the lens through the viewfinder eyepiece. A man's got to have a hobby, and this seems to be my new one. For a while ... http://x111.com/photography/dslr/ I'll post about the technique later but I just wanted to post it because I like the result, even though it isn't really HDRi because all the shots taken for this were done from the loose wrist and with different shutter times instead of with different EV. http://x111.com/photography/my-first-hdriish/