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I have recently had another look into white balance, and the wonders that I skirt around the edges of while trying to capture the world I live with through a lens.

Since my last adventure - two things are most notable - the inclusion of colour management into Linux with the aptly named gnome-color-manager and the rather more powerful dispcalgui and on the other side of the equation how black is black... in the case of an LED screen - quite a lot more black than you are used to. [ READ MORE ]

I am hooked. I admit it. Okay - so its not the graphics, its not an evolution, but its the little things - the gameplay, the investment in solving the issue. Working the problem. Limbo has won me over with its ever-so-ever-so dark world of silhouettes, mist, and light, and sounds that stitch it all together for me.

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Earlier this week I was looking through some threads on Gimp* regarding plugins when I was presented with this XKCD cartoon. It amused.

So for all of those who get fobbed off with the "I am a glorified typist" - here is another angle:

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More images from this Day job related set here.

There have been many square ones. There will be many more, I hope. I recently found this on my shelf - well I say found - I knew it was there... but I took it out, looked, read, remembered.

The Sinclair ZX81 for me was the start of what I do now. Early eighties computing involved a membrane keyboard, just about enough memory to write something functional before spilling into screen RAM - with games you could stop while loading and look through, and possibly even re write yourself (seriously - 1K RAM, 8K ROM, think about that). It was a world of old humming black and white TV sets for me, with fizzing resolution, and a long pause when you pressed New Line. It was a beginning. My beginning with this fascination that still plagues me. [ READ MORE ]

Upgrades. Today saw the addition of a second processor to the backup/secondary server, along with accompanying voltage regulator module, and heat sink. Two spare drives had their firmware flashed, and prepared for use, and short of the now overdue battery backing (*stamp stamp stamp*) for write cache enabling on the secondary host (while I have a spare 64 bit U320 RAID controller with batteries... there is no internal DB68 connector, grrrr) - all is now done and dusted on a hardware front. Now just for the remainder of the data / mail migrations! It is surprisingly cathartic to be be making with the "Do as I do" as opposed to the "Do as I say" if that makes sense. [ READ MORE ]

Yesterday saw a minor curiosity of one of the domains I look after getting a bunch of attention. It is quiet around here, but relatively shouty yesterday as a peak level of 2 emails a second where knocking at the door to come in, and being politely rejected with "no, try again later". Curiously enough, they where not trying again, these where mostly unique one off mails, from mainly .JP .BR and .BD (yes I had to look it up too - Bangladesh of all places). Like some kind of slow motion mailbomb. But to what ends? [ READ MORE ]

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Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-proposed/universe Packages
Fetched 11.1MB in 29s (375kB/s)
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... I read as I do an update of Ludic Lynx before shutting down for the evening. Half speed download. I recall once upon a time downloading an NT service pack of 15MB ... and it took an entire day, and several attempts without it disconnecting. [ READ MORE ]

Hoarding. I am not bad. I am not like the people you see on obscure TV programmes who never throw things away... but I do sometimes look at things and think "I will need that again". To this end for technical things I have two rather sizeable containers for said things, one marked cables, one marked hardware.

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You know sometimes when you get that "is it me, or is it everyone else?". Well the other day I had one of those that was specifically "everyone else". MOST reassuring.

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