Category: Wayback Retrieval
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Behold the power of the Internet
Praise be to the power of the Internet, and the Hive Mind that inhabits Ars Technica. I posted there, enquiring about the lens options for the D80, as I’d like to avoid spending too much on the replacement for the 5D. A reply by kefkafloyd supplied me with information I’d been unable to find anywhere…
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Kitchen: Painted
Well, the bare plaster walls in the kitchen have been painted with cheap white paint. I present pictures from my mobile phone camera, as I have no other camera at the moment. Before: After: For my next trick, I’ll be finding some tiles I like, and getting a backsplash tiled in, along with the windowsills.
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Changing Cameras, part the first
Following on from an earlier posting, I went to the local Jessops store today and returned my Konica-Minolta 5D for (essentially) store credit. The manager was quite pleasant, and gave me 500 quid in vouchers – the camera value plus the extended warranty I had purchased. I then played with a few cameras, primarily the…
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Dear brain, please pay attention.
So I’m sitting here working on a mid-sized array that defines permission flag names, and the default values for different types of user – I’ve dumped the array out after sorting it, and I’m re-importing it into the code so that I can find bits easier (alpha search by analogue eye). As I’m running a…
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It’s back, again…
My camera is back in my possession, and the shutter button appears to work properly again. So, onwards and upwards to see if the crash issue has been fixed, or whether I’m going to be talking to a certain manager at a certain store.
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Offices, sewage and disaster recovery
Yesterday was an interesting day – a sewage pipe that runs through the office wall apparently got stressed with the amount of rain we’ve had recently, and sprung a rather good leak. One moment it was a nice dry office that didn’t smell too bad, and the next minute the sales guys were moving desks…