Escape to Hong Kong – a tram ride
I rode the tram, literally from one end of Hong Kong island to the other, taking a photo every few seconds.
Skip preamble and launch DoF calculator applet now. Welcome to the latest rework of the GarfNet Depth of Field Calculator. It is based on quite an old JavaScript application that appeared on the web back in the mid 1990s. I rewrote and extended it in the mid 2000’s. Consequently, it was looking rather old and…
Seems there is quite a lot of buzz about a “new” image format called “WebP” that is seeing increasing use on-line recently. Although it is attributed to Google, WebP was not strictly a Google invention. It was originally developed by On2 of New York as part of its VP* series “Truemotion” video codecs. Google acquired…
How do I calculate the kWH on my studio flash heads? Do I use 300 watts of electricity each time I fire them?
The World Health Organization is arguably one of the planet’s foremost sources of accurate medical information. I have admired WHO for many years and its site is always worth a visit, even when there isn’t a global public health crisis. But its Daily Situation Reports are superb. Lots of information presented in a clear and…
At time of writing, Debian 5.0 Debian stable is arguably one of the most stable platforms upon which you can build a web server. It’s also free and so are its frequent updates. http://www.debian.org