OU First team beat Swan Fenny in today's Milton Keynes Sunday League match, but not because Swan's keeper was rubbish. Actually, he did a brilliant job but had to retire injured in the second half - only to come back on again as a forward and nearly score.
Northampton's motocross event at Long Buckby yesterday - full gallery now live.| iPhone/O2 | Nokia N95/Vodafone | |
| Contact | 18 months | 18 months |
| 3G | no | yes |
| Wireless | 802.11b/g | no |
| Camera | 2 Mpixel | 5 Mpixel |
| Storage | 8Gb | extra memory card |
| Phone | £269 | Free |
| per Month | £35 | £30 (first 3 months half price) |
| Entire contract cost | £1259 | £495 |
This evening's Art and Architecture walk for the work's camera club was successful - as well as a few club members, we hosted around 9 regulars of a Flickr group called the MK Flickrites. I concentrated on the architecture as the light was better for that.
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"One of Britain's leading Buddhist monks has died in a freak accident cutting lawns at his temple in Milton Keynes. Reverend Gyosei Handa was killed while using a ride-on lawnmower. Rev Handa was the chief monk at Nippon zan Miohoji Buddhist temple in Willen."
"Compact disc hits 25th birthday
Hot off the press - well, not 'press' but editor's computer I guess - is the first 'full' video production I've been involved in to date. I did all the lighting and a lot of the camera work too, over a mere two evenings. Editing - lots of chromakey work - took a week.
Britain - a Police State? Surely not? Well, in the last three days, we have:
Airbourne
Have configured my somewhat ancient-but-still-serviceable Nokia 6230 mobile phone to echo my status via BuddySpace, kick in the screen saver and start or stop the music playing via iTunes on my iMac. Here's how:tell application "iChat"PhoneHere
set status to away
end tell
tell application "iTunes"
stop
end tell
tell application "ScreenSaverEngine" to activate
tell application "iChat"
set status to available
end tell
tell application "iTunes"
play
end tell
Finally got thumnail images to appear in the popups from waypoint markers in Google Maps using their API and JavaScript - this is for our wacky wireless-network-in-a-field experiments for geology field trips, but could equally be used for all sorts of location surveys. Chris Breeze's excellent Downloader Pro 2 geotags the images and at the same time spits out an HTML file with the track recorded by the GPS device (in this case a Garmin geko 301). I then add some significant waypoints and pick an image most appropriate to each location. Each waypoint is drawn using a function derrived from the help pages Google provides for their API.
What's so remarkable about this photo of a coin? Nothing. Its the camera that's remarkable. I used a Ricoh Caplio 500SE-W which is not only waterproof and environmentally sealed to IP67, but also has built-in Bluetooth and 802.11 wireless functionality. You can set it up so that you can send photos straight after you have taken them. It can even resize them before it sends, allowing you to keep the original 8Mb file on the SD card and send a web-sized copy straight to a webserver. Very clever stuff!
Rain drops in a puddle
Finally got my department to buy me a decent camera. The one I had to use before, a venerable Kodak DC265, saw 7 years of active service and will now be retired. Its replacement is a Canon EOS 400D digital SLR. I opted for the EFS 17-85mm IS zoom and a 430EX flashgun to go with it (since I take a lot of photos of our visitors). I have worked out a way to attach one of our little Garmin geko 301 GPS recording devices, using a Hama straight flash bracket, so images can be geotagged.
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Spent three hours today in a sand pit. Our department is once again collaborating with Earth Sciences on a geology field trip and this time, instead of the wilds of Scotland, the venue is a local sand quarry that's within walking distance of my home.
