Happy Hallowe’en everyone!
I’m not sure how, but we managed to find the time to carve up some of those rascally pumpkins…. behold the Jack’o’lanterns of 2005!
Click for a large image. That thar one in the middle is my attempt at a pirate. Yar!
Month: October 2005
The Power Of Photography
World Press Photography has an annual award for photojournalists. They have put up a showcase of the winner from each year for the past 50 years. These photos are not “the best photos of the year” or “the most powerful photos of the last 50 years” – rather they are simply the winners of the award for the last 50 years. That being said, these pictures will affect you emotionally.
High-tech (and high resolution) Flash version is available here.
Low-tech version (with slightly more detailed descriptions) is available here.
Another image that I’ve found in this Ars Technica thread about the power of photography:
Sudan Famine “Pulitzer Prize” winner 1994: photo and photgrapher’s biography.
Photojournalism would be a hard, hard thing to do.
Motivational Thought of the Day
From People Can Change
Anyone who is motivated primarily by shame to seek change is not only likely to fail at change but risks actually making the cycle of shame worse. Shame never motivates lasting change. Likewise, those who pursue change to satisfy other people — whether family, friends, religious institutions or society at large — are likely to find neither success nor satisfaction in trying to change when doing so is not truly their heart’s desire.
For Those Of Us With A Base Humour
Penny Arcade’s take on paternal birth anxiety is teh funnay.
Please note, that comic requires a base humour. Ignoble even.
We’re Pregnant!
It’s official, there really will be another Bridger coming into this world!
Alisa and I are happy to announce that we are expecting our first child in around 28 weeks. The offical due date is April 26th, according to both the doctor and midwife that we’ve spoken to.
I can’t say that this has all really sunk in yet (I’m told that it never does, but that’s another story), but we’re both jubilant!
Note: Since Dale is the only one reading this, I consider this to be an offical notice for you, Mr. Marsden.
I Hate Internet Explorer
I’m currently designing a website interface for a personal project. Things are at the preliminary stages, but I’ve already stumbled across the one reason I hate working with web pages in terms of design …
Internet Explorer simply does not adhere to web standards.
What this means is that I can plan a layout for the website, code it according to industry standards, and test it in Firefox. It will look like this.
Please understand that this is a preliminary design. Ignore the colours and layout as I’m using them to rough out my ideas. In all likelihood things will change dramatically as I build the site up. But at this point it is good to take a look at the basic structure of the site.
I then decide I should test it in Internet Explorer too, simply because I know everyone doesn’t use Firefox. Why that is I do not know, but I know the majority of people are still using Internet Explorer. OK, and here is how the page is rendered by I.E.
The exact same code, but with totally different results. Now I need to go and figure out if there are any known tricks I can use in order to make I.E. pretend it is standards compliant. I really hope I.E. 7’s CSS support is vastly improved when it comes out.