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Only very rarely do you get to see photos of the northern light phenomena but here on this site you get loads (all from the same location though).
On the site they don't call it northern light but The Geomagnetic Storm Resulting From the CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) produced by an X1-flare near sunspot 696.
Whatever they call it, in lack of being fortunate to see one with my own eyes, these photos will have to suffice.
I've now finally uploaded all my photos from the trip to China.
From 1,000 huge jpegs (at 1.6Gb) down to 300 resized ones (at 43Mb) it took quite a long time to rotate, chose, colour modify and title. To do it I had to use digikam which is the best photo album organiser program available on Linux. Even though it's the best I've found so far it still sucks. It's frustrating when you have lots to do but it's free and works better than nothing and I haven't donated any money to it.
As you might have noticed I have had to reduce the image quality quite a bit especially of the thumbnails. Sorry about this but I see thumbnails as navigation, not the real content. If you want higher resolution images I might be able to get you the original JPG if you ask kindly for it.
The IssueTrackerProduct was on tuesday this week featured on Ajaxian.com which is a really good looking site that focuses on nice usage of AJAX in websites.
They could have chosen a better screenshot I guess but other than that I'm quite happy to be included.
At the time of writing, if you do any of these searches on google:
charles dunston carphone warehouse
...you'll notice two patterns:
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I bought the A4 VisiBone Browser Book from www.visibone.com and have been using it now for about a month. How did I survive without it before?
Usually when I forget how a selector CSS works I usually go to Google and sift through a few different sites until I find what I'm looking for. Or if I forget how a JavaScript function works I pick up my 800 pages big JavaScript The Definitive Guide from O'Reilly. So many times I've searched Google for html entity chart to look up the code for å. Don't get me started on scanning the web for a decent DOM tree chart (none found so far actually) or various boring tutorials for how to do regular expressions in JavaScript.
My VisiBone Browser Book is 16 dense pages with web colours, fonts, characters, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, DOM and Regular Expressions. It's always one arm-reach away from my work computer. Another great feature is that the listings of tags, CSS declarations and DOM is speckled with little footnote icons such as "Obsolete", "Not supported by IE5 on the Mac" or "Opera bug". This is incredibly valuable. When I received my copy and sat down reading it (or rather, staring at it) for an hour. That alone taught me so much and I'm now probably faster at finding things between the 16 pages.
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If you don't know what ping is, it's a program that tests the network connection between your computer and another host. When you run it you can see how fast the connection is but people use it mainly to test if it's even possible to make the network connection.
Often when I've had to struggle to get connected to the network (fiddling with the Ethernet cable or getting on a wifi broadcast) I often use ping to see if the internet connection works. Which host do I ping? I use www.com.
For a long time I was using www.google.com for no obvious reason. My colleague Zahid uses yahoo.com I noticed yesterday when I was leaning over his shoulder after connecting to a wireless router. So, who do you ping? (and why?)
This is quite amazing of a camera. I'm not sure I want one because I wouldn't be a photographer enough to be able to use it.
On Hasselblads promotional website:
"How do you improve upon the best digital camera in the world?
You start by making it the first DSLR to feature an extremely high resolution 39 million pixel sensor."
Every image weights 78Mb (50Mb compressed) and it's no surprise that they sell an external hard drive as an accessory.
At work we have a Windows XP computer that is used mainly to test websites in Internet Explorer to check the stylesheet compatability. The installed XP version is English and everything is therefore in English; except one thing.
Look at the screenshot and notice some weird lines of Swedish! Why??
Surely this is a bug. The reason why the deviating language is Swedish and not French or Icelandic is probably because the MS Office 2003 we have installed on it is Swedish. I already had a Swedish Office CD from Sweden from before and at the time we installed it we thought it would suffice because we didn't want to buy a new English version for a computer we very rarely use.
PS. If you haven't already done so, migrate away from M$ Office and move up to Open Office which is free and Open Source.
Here at Fry-IT we use timesheets, like so many other companies, to track the time we spend on each client project. Despite being a very "web modern" company we still don't use a web application to do this. What we use is a python script that I wrote that uses raw_input() to get the details in on the command line. The script then saves all data in a big semicolon separated CSV file and is stored in cvs. This works quite well for us. It's in fact all we need in terms of actually entering our times which is usually very easy to forget.
But, here's an idea for a timesheet tracker that will not guarantee but will really help in not forgetting to fill in your timesheets. The idea is that you have a web application of some sort that is able to send out emails to registered individuals. These emails will be sent at (a configurable time) the end of the work day when you're about to leave for the day. You might have seen this before on other timesheet tracker applications; it's not new. What is new is that the email would contain lots of intelligent URLs that when clicked fills in your timesheets for that day.
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It's possibly a bit late for a new years resolution but I have had to think about it and here are my new year resolutions for 2006:
Wish me luck! :)