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I’m trying to do some tidying up on my gallery, but I need some help.

If anyone has any old (or new) links to anything in my gallery, could they please tell me about them, so that I can check that what I’m doing won’t break them.

I know that there are several link scemes in existance for my gallery (due to a few changes I have made since it went up) and I need at least one link in each format in order to test everything.

Please let me know if you have anything that may be able to help me.

Well, it’s been a while since I did a proper update. since the christmas holidays I have had the awesomeness/annoyance of Beltane — again.

some of my results are here:

http://www.thingomy.co.uk/gallery/main.php/v/BFS/Beltane09/

others can be found on gallery.beltane.org

I had a more sucsessfull shoot that i’ve ever had at an event, and am really pleased.

On other matters, I have moved to Liverpool. 2 very good friends of mine (Engel and Rochelle) were moving down, and had spare space, at the same time as my flat lease was running out, so it seemed just as sensible as moving locally. Coupled with better employment prospects, and a fresh start, it’s all good.

there are some pics of the house here

In hind sight, even after a couple of weeks, Edinburgh didn’t really seem to have a lot going for it.

If anyone want’s to come visit, we have a spare bed, give me a buzz — I’m in L25 — Hunts Cross.

There appears to be a bloke in america with the same name as me who has started up a fairly active blog. He seems to have only one topic, and our views differ substantially on it:

http://jrpeterson.vox.com/library/post/right-church-right-time-right-message.html?_c=feed-atom

It’s odd the kind of things you find lingering around on the intermitenets at times.

The project to map Lerwick in the Shetland Isles off Scotland for OSM continues.

A few months ago, a company called Cloudmade provided me with the use of a gps receiver for the purposes of this project.

Having had someone I know driving around the area for months with the GPS set, virtually all of which would have happened anyway regardless of the presence of the GPS set.

(you may have to link through to the main post page to view the images properly)

There is a lot of data, about 300MB in total, and filtering it was not simple, (I spent a good 3 days up to the oxters in batch files, and even cygwin, thanks to Heliomass for help on that bit) but now most of the gibberish bits are gone, and the data is mostly clean and good. You can see some fully edited data here (please view full size, it really is awesome):

I’ve done a load of work tracing out the roads from the data, there is still some small bits missing, but nothing major. I’m about half way through the process of classifying and labelling everything, below shows just how bad it was before and my progress about half way through:

The town centre — notice that there are roads in entirely the wrong place in the old version:

Wider view of the town, notice a load of new housing on the periphery:

Unfortunately the system takes a while to update, so my last day’s work or so is missing, to follow the updates as they happen, view these links:
narrow
wide

I have just signed up for a 1 day seminar in London next month on photographic lighting — more details after the event.

I have also solved (i think) my geotagging problems for once and for all — unless some small details stops me.

(If you don’t know what a geotag is, you can stop reading now btw)

The tool that does it is found here: http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/

It’s a lightroom plugin, stores the data with the images as they are being developed, and without undue stress adds the data to all jpeg exports. it’s not fully polished yet, but it has few enough wrinkles that it seems to be up to the job.

The same bloke that does it also does a flickr upload plugin that seems to work really well. There are other goodies in there too.

Unfortunatly I have yet to find a solution that I can get working that will export to ftp, the irony being that the functionality is already in lightroom only I can get it to not upload a bunch of html stuff with the images.

See the following page:

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1078738/Loo-view-The-worlds-toilets-best-vistas.html

I would normally take little notice of such a page after taking a quick look through it’s content. It did however catch my eye due to the fact that I have been exceedingly close to 3 of the mentioned depositories.

I was within a few miles of the NZ one. I was on Alcatraz island, and it really isn’t that large an island. I have a photo of a fountain right in front of the HK one.

I am currently undertaking a mapping project for the Open Streetmap project.

Cloudmade who do a great deal of work with the OSM community have given me a grant to get a GPS set for this purpose.

The device has been shipped off to Shetland where it is being driven around by a friend of mine. I received the first batch of data a few days ago, and save for a few small issues, the data is good, clean and ready for proper processing.

On completion this project will allow the addition of very accurate mapping of central Shetland in OSM maps.

See here:

register

The question remains — If you identify something as a UFO, it ceases to be unidentified — right?

Therefore it isn’t a UFO — right?

Therefore UFOs cannot exist

(edit: i put the wrong link in the first time)

Having been doing a considerable amount of web browsing recently, I thought I would share some of the good bits:

Cream of tiger soup (lolcats):
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/03/28/funny-pictures-stir-carefully/

Wiring nightmares — round up of some of the most interesting wiring form around the world, this really is an education:
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/03/really-bad-wiring-jobs_20.html

Garfield minus garfield — some bloke takes Garfield cartoons and photoshops out the garfield in them — the results are variable, but they are very random:
Garfield minus garfield

Timelapse photography with a DSLR — the results really are worth watching, even although it’s a little clumbsy to download:
http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/how-i-made-a-time-lapse-movie-with-my-dslr/