Monthly Archives: July 2006

minimalist gallery

After far too long leaving my gallery languishing, it’s now been reborn in a very bare fashion: using (at the moment) Lightroom to caption and edit, and the rather simple to config JAlbum to build the images I have knocked up a mostly CSS (yes, the tables will be going) design that apes the Stock theme from Aperture. Why ? Because it shows the images as the main focus of interest. Yes, the text is grey on a grey background, but it’s only there for the insatiably curious. I do aim to have more than one category up there eventually, but the change is refreshing and will encourage me to add more images.

Speaking of which, the reason that there are f:0 apertures listed is that the lens was either a full manual (ie: Contax or Zuiko) one with an adaptor ring, or it was taken with a reversing ring, so again there was no communication with the lens firmware. If it was reversed, then it was probably f5.6 or f8.

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handy google time zone feature

I’ve not seen this mentioned over at the Google Help page, but it understands plain English time zone requests, so asking it:

time in new york

does exactly what you’d expect: the current local time at the top of the page, and a list of links for the rest of it. Very handy, as I rarely need a full blown world clock, but just need to check it’s sane to make a call.

Now I just have to sit back and wait for the people saying: “Yup, been using it for the last 24 months”… If you have, could you tell me where you discovered it ? Just in case there’s a super-secret page of not-even-beta Google features I’m missing out on.

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