Archive for April, 2007

Irfanview 4.0 released!

I’ve been using IrfanView for years as my default image viewer. Today the author released version 4.0.
Changes include Vista compatibility, toolbar skins, EXIF improvements, along with a host of smaller improvements.

Zilker Gardens black and white

I’ve always been drawn to black and white images like this with some sort of machine falling apart. This shot is from the same trip as these two photos of a snake and of flowers.

Houston Police Officers’ Memorial Photographs

These are from a few months ago when I went down to the Houston Police Officers’ Memorial because I had heard there was a good angle on the Houston skyline. Turns out the memorial itself was much more interesting, both from a historical point of view and photographically.

The first image is from the top [...]

osCommerce and duplicate content

If you’ve got an osCommerce store set up you are probably fighting a duplicate content problem with the search engines. The problem is that OSC has an almost limitless number of ways to view any one particular product page – 1 for each category that the product is in plus one without any category [...]

List functions disabled in PHP

I’ve got a web client having some really odd problems with a program of mine logging him out randomly. Normally I upload a phpinfo file and use that to see if I could find out anything but when I did that I got an error that phpinfo had been disabled for “security purposes”.

Another addictive flash game

If you’ve got some time to kill, or are really bored at work, give Desktop Defense a try.

Anybody else having bad luck with Canon 430ex?

For the past couple of months I’ve been funneling saving money to pick up a couple more Canon Speedlites to get myself 4 lights so that I can start trying out wireless E-TTL setups. Last week UPS delivered my 4th flash, a 430ex and I was ready to go, or so I thought.
I took [...]