For some time now, I’ve been looking for a photoblog application that I can host myself, and more importantly will give me some protection for my images. Being a little web savvy I know just how easy it is to “steal” pictures from any html driven web site. So to this end i’ve been looking for a Flash / Flex or Silverlight application that will give me the protection i am looking for. I currently post some photographs to my main blog, but sometimes this makes me nervous.
So I’ve been chatting with a friend of mine who happens to be a bit of a Flash guru and it just so happens that he’s been developing something along these lines on the sideline for the last few months.
After a bit of a natter over the weekend, it looks as if this may be something we could have a go at, and if it works the next stage would be to try and turn it into a marketable product.
However, if there’s anyone out there who is already aware of a Flash based photoblog application, then please let me know…
Due to a recent bereavement in the family, we have a 2003 (03) Honda Civic 1.4 Imagine for sale:
2003 (03) Honda Civic 1.4 Imagine (Petrol)
Mileage: 31k
Doors: 5 (Hatchback)
Colour: Silver
ABS
Drivers airbag
Electric mirrors
Body coloured bumpers
Electric windows
Power steering
Central locking
CD player
5 months tax
Price £3495 ono.
Call 0161 870 6181
Location: Altrincham, Manchester
I’ve added the shots from the wedding that I did a couple of weeks back to my gallery – check them out here.
Brian Auer over at Epic Edits is running a pretty cool competition – “The $50 film camera”. Yep you guessed it – it’s a film themed and you gotta shoot it with a camera that cost less than $50 (or about £25). They’ve managed to get Ilford and Lomography involved with the prizes. The deadline is the 12th September, so get shooting – it sounds like fun. For more details, go here.
On a slightly different topic, my backup regime. I use EMC’s Retrospect to run a nightly batch job to automatically duplicate images that I download from a CF card or scan negs onto my pc to an external USB drive. Every other day, I use Retrospect to copy the latest changes to the USB drive over a VPN to an external drive attached to a pc at home. It’s all been working fine for months, but lately my office ADSL connection has been getting attacked which causes the router to drop the connection and the backup job to fail. The result is that the data gets copied over the Internet all over again, but they’ve been failing repeatedly so I’ve just had a bill from my ISP for exceeding my 50GB a month limit! I got an email warning last month, but an invoice this month. Fair enough I guess, so I’ve stopped the job that copies the data over the VPN and ordered a 32GB USB flash drive from Dabs and will have to copy the data manually for the time being until the attacks die down. The problem that I have now is managing changes. New files are easy enough to manage, but if I make changes to a bunch of sidecar files in Lightroom how do I reconcile the differences with the offsite storage? Any ideas????
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Brief post today. Computer equipment is all overheating (its topping 100F in office again), so I’m struggling to process shots from the wedding. It was a great success and I’m pleased with my results. Off to London for 36 hours shooting tomorrow, so I ain’t gonna get the rest processed until later in the week. Going to see the Street & Studio exhibition at the Tate Modern, and roam the streets 
. Not got any themes in mind just yet, time for that later, but really looking forward to it!
Off topic: My Ipod (5th Gen) video not so long ago decided it wasn’t going to play any more video podcasts, which I’ve found quite annoying as I watch Photoshop User TV & Matt Kloskowski’s Lightroom podcasts on there. Just tried a complete reset and resync but that hasn’t worked either. I reckon its probably an Apple update that’s killed it, but unfortunately no more time to investigate. Had planned on loading it up for the train journey down, will have to do withouth. Apple Grrrrrrr
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It’s gonna be one of dem days! Late start this morning as I had to drop my car off at Audi for them to repair the Gearbox ECU. Fortunately, even though the car is 12 months outside its warranty Audi are going to throw the part in for free, which helps as its about £1500!! But it meant a late start and sitting around waiting for the loner car to be sorted out etc etc. Then when I do finally get into the office, I see that I’ve got some major disk problems on my primary desktop. The drive on which I store Lightroom galleries and RAW files is reporting no free space, and the drive on which I have 250GB of music appears to have lost half of its contents. For some bizarre reason its not showing anything in Windows Explorer after the letter I, though if I type in the folder name (eg The Police) it’ll browse to it no probs. The music is still showing up in iTunes, but its a bit concerning! Its a 250GB Maxtor and I’m wondering if its on its way out. I do have duplicates, but copying that much data is no mean feat.
So while I fart about with my desktop and try and get it back up to speed again, I’ve been working on an Amazon store for the website on my trusty laptop. Any extra way of brining in a little more revenue isn’t to be sniffed at, and Amazon’s A-Store is a rather nifty set up. Ok, the commission rates aren’t great, but hey it’s taken me like a couple of hours, and I’m up and running. Check it out here, and PLEASE get your wallet out 
Check this out – http://kominigarderoben.se/
In Swedish but you’ll get the gist!
Oh and here’s another one – www.alexprager.com – some truly fantastic photography.
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Some of you readers out there may be aware that back in the day or BC (before children), I used to spin the ol’ 1′s and 2′s for a living (DJing to the laymen out there). I’ve been having a clear out of some spare hard disks to make room for more RAW files and I happened across some of my old mixes. I supported The Charlatans on a couple of tours around the UK and Europe at the time of their “Us and Us Only” tour around 1999 / 2000 inhabiting the tour bus with the crew and providing the “support act” to warm the crowd up before the band came on stage. It was quite an experience I can tell you – different city every night and all that – not quite Black Sabbath, but it was pretty rock ‘n’ roll. I also did some work for Toploader around the time they released their debut album “Mama’s Big Onka” in 2001. Prior to that I had several residencies at clubs around Manchester when the scene was still thriving (and the music was good! ). I also have literally hundreds of old mix tapes in the garage too, which I’m slowly but surely trying to digitise. Though some are a bit on the iffy side, and I don’t just mean the quality of the recordings, there are a few gems in there that really take me back. So I thought I’d share them for those that are interested rather than having them sit on some old drive gathering dust so to speak. If you pop on over to my profile page on my main site, you’ll see them at the bottom of the page. Feel free to pop on over and get your ears wet! Check them out here.
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