Never thought I'd own an iPod. The few times I'd tried them, I could never get on with that wheel-like interface. But as I'm part of the OU's iTunes U/Podcasting project (I am currently building the website, backend database and XML creation system) I've now become the posessor of an iPod Touch.
Lexar have now launched an SD card with built-in 802.11 wireless so you can send images directly from any SD-equipped digital camera via a wireless network. How do they get it all in such a tiny package - when it was introduced for Compact Flash, it was surprising enough!
Got some decent photos at the Britcar 24 weekend at Silverstone. The start of the 24 hour endurance race was marred by a bad accident - hope the drivers are ok.
The Northampton motorcycle club finally managed to host a race, this time at Crick near J18 of the M1. This summer's weather has been so poor, at least one event had to be cancelled - this time, it was ideal.
The BBC - or is it the Met Office - seem to be having problems predicting the weather recently. Time to go back to the seaweed, folks.
Sunday's Hare and Hounds motocross, hosted by the Northampton Motocycle Club at Wood End near Towcester went very well: good turn out and nice weather too. Pity the wives and GFs of the riders, though, given the amount of cow muck that seemed to be everywhere!
Fiver's program 'The Shot' (reality competition to find a fashion photographer) this afternoon included a session using a 90-camera setup allegedly to shoot photos for a feature on hair. Not surprisingly, the judges were pretty scathing about all the results - but the equipment was never going to suit the subject. The program would have been far more interesting if it had focussed on the technology and techniques instead of the competitors whinging and moaning about each other. But then I guess that's what reality TV is all about - especially if its American.
Just helped my brother post photos from his trip to Granada, Spain onto a Picasa web album. Used Downloader Pro and BreezeBrowser Pro to create 800-pixel versions, but in retrospect it would have been a lot easier to do the entire process via the Picasa application. Again, I noticed however, Picasa had trouble seeing the folder of images; although there was a tick next to the folder on my D:, it still did not bring in the thumbnails.
KMi Roses, my department's 6-a-side cricket team, won their fourth and final group game today, making it four out of four - a record. I think we set another record by getting four wickets too.
Just finished a prototype field power supply for the Asus Eee notebook computers we are contemplating using for our wireless geology field trips to Scotland later this year. It uses a 7Ah 12v battery plus a 3A variable-voltage regulator set to 9.5v. I spotted the irony in using lead-free solder in a project that uses a lead-acid battery.
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Attended the European Cable Wakeboard Tour today as it visited Willen Lake in Milton Keynes for three days. Managed to get some decent shots despite the sun not wanting to stay out for more than a couple of minutes at a time. Click the image to visit the gallery.
This evening saw the awards presentation for the first annual Walton High photographic competition, with first second and third prizes awarded in Under 16s and Over 16s categories, plus a rather smart trophy for the overall photographer of the year. The quality of all of the finalists' images were very impressive and you certainly couldn't tell which photos had been submitted by the younger group of students.
This evening saw the judging of all 198 entries to the 2008 OU Camera Club annual photographic competition. I didn't win anything myself, but did have one photo shortlisted in the Architecture gallery. As Chairman, it was good to see so many images entered - I had been concerned that we wouldn't get enough. Thanks to the visiting judge Derek Larkin from the Wellingborough Camera Club.
Time again for more wireless network tests before we (well not me personally) head north to Kindrogan in Scotland to support another disabled student on their SXR339 summer school. As usual, we head for a field in Wolverton and for a good hour or so are ignored by a herd of cows. Their inqusitive nature eventually got the better of them though and they mosied on over to investigate.
Our webCEF project meeting went very well in Helsinki, Finland. Weather was wonderful. Shame I hate flying so much!
The Luminous Landscape seems to think that its inevitable that still and video cameras will merge. There are already a number of cameras that can shoot very high quality images at very high frame rates - up to 100fps. But I have to wonder if there really is a need for such high resolution. Unless you're going to be blowing your images up to beyond A3, you simply don't need more than around 8Mpixels. I think its another advance driven by the manufacturers rather than the market.
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I get so sick of Facebook pages not loading. Seems to happen most often in the evenings here in the UK, presumably because the USA has just woken up and Facebook's servers can't cope with the load. Get it sorted!
