2007 South African Blog Awards finalists

The finalists for the 2007 South African Blog Awards were announced today, so head on over to the site and have your say. Ensure that you submit a valid e-mail address because you’ll be required to confirm your vote.

Thanks to whoever nominated digicam.coza for best photographic blog – I requested for it to be substituted. As it happens … view full post

digicam.coza Stats

Clicking through my Thunderbird folders that collect filtered, low priority messages (which I check on an irregular basis), I discovered the following: since the beginning of last month I’ve received 350 Account Activation requests via digicam.coza. All of them from spammers. This after deleting over 1000 spam … view full post

Flickr Darkr

A few months ago I had the idea to create a user script for Greasemonkey that would basically skin Flickr with a darker theme, because I find viewing photography much more attractive against a dark background.

So I played around a bit (using the EditCSS Firefox extension). It didn’t quite … view full post

So you know what they call a quarter pounder with cheese in Paris?

Vincent: In Paris, you can buy a beer at McDonald’s. And do you know what they call a quarter pounder with cheese in Paris?

Jules: They don’t call it a quarter pounder with cheese?

Vincent: No man, they got the metric system, they wouldn’t know what the fuck a quarter pounder is.

I spent three nights in Paris, in the lively Latin Quarter … view full post

Flickr

If you were spared from my mass invitation/spam the other day, then you might not be familiar with Flickr. Currently in public beta and developed by the gents and ladies at Ludicorp, Flickr is, as they say, “the best online photo management and sharing application in the world”, and I totally … view full post

Microsoft’s MSN Music

I’ve finally gotten round to adding all the photo albums from my trip to Scotland three weeks ago. Check them out here. I’ve also added some photos from yesterday’s sunrise, and some spectacular “spring” scenes – frozen cherry trees – taken in … view full post

Let’s learn something new, shall we?

AE Lock
The ability to lock exposure settings (aperture and shutterspeed) calculated by the camera over a series of images. This setting is useful when shooting images which will be stitched together into a panorama because stitching is much easier if each image has the same exposure. (via dpreview.com)

Case in point: my hopeless attempt … view full post

Rebranded. Redesigned. Redeveloped.

It’s taken over a month, but it’s felt like a year – presenting the fifth redesign of coda.coza in as many years.

Before you click anywhere, pick apart my code or run it through any validators, you should know that this is something of a beta version. I’ve done almost no cross-browser testing (I’m aware of some behavioural glitches & twitches) … view full post

Blog Mesh

A number of random updates, observations and congratulations.

Firstly, a round of applause for my sister J who completed the Knysna Forest Marathon (21km) on Saturday. Well done sis! If I’m still running regularly this time next year maybe we can do it together – ok, stop laughing already. I designed … view full post

Sunrise photography

It’s not like I’m trying to capture the perfect sunrise photo. I just get really frustrated with how photos sometimes look really good on the LCD finder, but then when you copy them across to a PC you discover the photo’s actually really bad. Not enough light, the colours are washed out, the sky … view full post