Keeping your precious data safe.

Recently Scott Bourne of Photo Focus, and This Week In Photography and creator of "Cranes in the Fire Mist", launched a new podcast & blog called,

"My Digital Life - Managing Your Digital Life".

The My Digital Life Podcast & Blog is your destination for information on how to deal with all the electronic stuff you accumulate during your daily life. We’re here to answer questions like: What sort of hard drive should I buy? How do I create a backup plan? What’s the difference between backup and archive?

(from the about Page on Mydl.me)

I highly recommend this blog\podcast.

Insane Copyright laws in NZ

I'm joining in the protest against the insane copyright law in NZ
http://bit.ly/eycr0

West Darling Athletics Carnival

We are off!

Left Coomie High at about 0735 with about 45 students.

znark - From on the road.

New Photos

I've been uploading some new photos to Flickr and and have created a Smugmug account where I will be posting higher resolution images.

I am in the process of touching-up my Jan 2008 trip photos now that I know how to use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom a bit better. (Brilliant program by the way!)

Hope you enjoy.

Drool!

I want one!!



The New Telsa Roadster - All electric sports car!

Ewan & Charlie are wimps!

This puts my wimpy trip into perspective.

Ewan & Charlie did a shorter trip in Long Way Round and Long Way Down fully supported. Robbo is doing it unsupported!

He's survived the Sahara, being held a gunpoint by a drunken cop, land mines, parasitic infections and now some total tosser has flogged his bike and his way of completing his tip and getting back home. He is stranded in Dubai. Help him complete his trip and get home.

9 Days Later

Well I've been back a work for just over a week now, and I've been enjoying it quite a bit. But I still need to get to bed earlier. That's where I should be now.

Has anyone got any suggestions as to how to train yourself to get to bed at a reasonable hour?

I took my Nikon D80 in to get the sensor cleaned today. The guy at the camera shop said he couldn't find any crap on the sensor so he didn't even try to clean it. However I tested it and I found there was heaps, didn't matter what lens, f-stop or focus. So I'll have to take it back in and make sure he cleans it this time.

Back To Work Tomorrow

And I'm not really looking forward to going back. But it is time. Been a long break and I reckon I've gotten into the habit of holidays.

I guess I'd better go to bed considering I need to get up a bit earlier than I have been. (Try 3hrs earlier :-0 )

Road Trip Jan 2008 Photos - Finally!

I just posted 83 photos of my trip around the coast on Flickr.

On most photos I did some minor adjustment in Abobe Photoshop Lightroom, like levelling and cropping for recomposing, exposure and vibrance adjustments.

There are 3 panoramas that I posted as well. The smallest is of Blue Lake in Mt Gambier composed of 2 photos taken in landscape format. The panorama at Coorong is composed of 6 photos taken in landscape orientation. The biggest, at "Mt" Wycheproof (a whole 43 m) is composed of 17 photographs taken in portrait orientation.

There are some obvious artefacts from the joining process. So don't look too close. I used Abobe Photoshop CS2 using the automated Photomerge. To the Coorong panorama I did a bit of manual dodge & burn in Photoshop and increased vibrance a bit in Lightroom.

Enjoy!

Riding Bikes - A Documentary

Came across this on Biker Swag