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Yesterday I downloaded the latest version of the Mac OS X driver for my HP scanjet 3670 scanner. I don’t know if it was with previous version but I discovered an application called HP Panorama Stitching in the software folder. So I gave it a go with three photos of Stonehenge that I took last summer and the result I got can be seen above. The full size version is huge.
Does anyone out there have a large format printer? 
Kev
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I had to leave work before mid-day today as I had a migraine. I had felt it coming on before I left for work and had taken the first dose of the pills that I take for migraines, but I forgot to take the box with me for the second dose and my right eye started to go so I bailed, went home and slept for 5 hours.
In blog related news, I have removed the message box after it got spammed, it is replaced with an image from my new webcam and online chat indicators. If you want to chat and don’t have my details already then comment with the system you use and I will email you my details.
Kev
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This morning I took part in and completed the Vale of Leven 10k races which was the fourth and final race in the Polaroid 10K Series. My finishing time was 1 hour and 6 minutes which I think is quite good given the rain and that it was the hilliest of the four courses. The second kilometre was a killer all up hill. I have an abrasion on my left foot and a small blister on my right, both of which originated in the race at Helensburgh. I think I need to get new socks for running. Due to the rain my running shirt stuck to my body a lot more than usual and I have a slight case of joggers nipple.
At the moment my next race will be a 5K at Glasgow Green in July but I will keep hunting around to see if there are any more 10K that I can get to before the Great Scottish Run in September.
Kev
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Tagged by Waltzingalong under condition 3, but I have opened out condition one for non-LJ blogs.
1) Comment and I’ll pick one of your LJ interests have a quick read of your blog and make you an icon.
2) You have no say in what I make.
3) Put this in your journal so I can do the same. (unless you’re unable to make ‘em)
Kev
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I have released version 2.0 of my WordPress plugin myMooMus the post for this can be found at my development blog Coding All Hours here
Kev
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I have at last booked my two weeks summer holidays with the work so all I need to do now is organise somewhere to go! The plan for one week is for Louise and I to head up to the North of Scotland and just chill out. I hope to get some photography done and I must remember to check out if there are any ancient sites where we end up going. I don’t have plans for the second week at the moment.
This week I hope at last to get version 2 of my WordPress plugin, myMooMus out to the world, I am getting kind of bored with it and want to move on to other projects. I will still support it and fix it when things go wrong but I think it is more or less “feature” complete and I other projects rattling around my brain that I want to have a go at.
Okay off to check my blog list and see what everyone has been up to
Kev
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At the moment Scotland is in the grip of a heat-wave, by that I mean the temperature is what most of the rest of the world would think of as just nice but here we are melting. The office I work in rarely has a comfortable temperature, it is too hot or cold and at the moment it is too hot. Today we hired an air cooler and it has changed the problem. The problem is now the noise from the air cooler, the delightful fish like smell and the heat is still there.
In other news my official time for the Clydebank 10k last week was 1h 03m 40s and I was placed 841 out of 861. I am running the Dumbarton 10k this evening, hope it cools down a little
Kev
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Yes I have changed my theme yet again. The teaser posts were leading up to this and hopefully they make sense once now.
I discovered this theme thanks to Aj who is also using a theme by Derek Punsalan
Now the reasons why. Well first of all I saw the “drawer” effect on Aj blog and the geek in me took over, go on click about or blogs above, you know you want too
The second reason for the change was that although I liked a lot of things about my previous theme there were things that I was never happy with. The banner didn’t really turn out as I wanted and I missed my old B&W inverted images, three of them have now returned. The drop cap was a nice idea but it broke some older posts and made blogging from Flickr impossible with out editing by hand afterwards.
Originally I had wanted to break away from the default WordPress layout but when I gave up writing my own template that kind of got lost.
I have kept most of the colour scheme from the previous theme, this was a last minute decision when I decided that the colours I had been using were too stark.
This theme gives me some more room to play with due to some stuff being tucked away in the “drawers”. So I have added recent comments and a message box. My recently played tracks from last.fm are now at the bottom of the page wit the technorati search box. The last.fm chart includes a preview button for tracks that they have in their system so you can get the usual 15 second preview by clicking the green speaker.
I will continue to tweak the design over the next few days and if the browser you use is doing something terrible with it then please let me know. I have still to run it through the checkers.
Oh and click the search link at the top it is way cool.
Oh and if you are reading this post on my LJ or Blogger mirror, sorry for wasting your time.
Kev
This entry was originally published at Darkest Before Dawn
Yes I have changed my theme yet again. The teaser posts were leading up to this and hopefully they make sense once now.
I discovered this theme thanks to Aj who is also using a theme by Derek Punsalan
Now the reasons why. Well first of all I saw the “drawer” effect on Aj blog and the geek in me took over, go on click about or blogs above, you know you want too
The second reason for the change was that although I liked a lot of things about my previous theme there were things that I was never happy with. The banner didn’t really turn out as I wanted and I missed my old B&W inverted images, three of them have now returned. The drop cap was a nice idea but it broke some older posts and made blogging from Flickr impossible with out editing by hand afterwards.
Originally I had wanted to break away from the default WordPress layout but when I gave up writing my own template that kind of got lost.
I have kept most of the colour scheme from the previous theme, this was a last minute decision when I decided that the colours I had been using were too stark.
This theme gives me some more room to play with due to some stuff being tucked away in the “drawers”. So I have added recent comments and a message box. My recently played tracks from last.fm are now at the bottom of the page wit the technorati search box. The last.fm chart includes a preview button for tracks that they have in their system so you can get the usual 15 second preview by clicking the green speaker.
I will continue to tweak the design over the next few days and if the browser you use is doing something terrible with it then please let me know. I have still to run it through the checkers.
Oh and click the search link at the top it is way cool.
Oh and if you are reading this post on my LJ or Blogger mirror, sorry for wasting your time.
Kev
This entry was originally published at Darkest Before Dawn
Yes I have changed my theme yet again. The teaser posts were leading up to this and hopefully they make sense once now.
I discovered this theme thanks to Aj who is also using a theme by Derek Punsalan
Now the reasons why. Well first of all I saw the “drawer” effect on Aj blog and the geek in me took over, go on click about or blogs above, you know you want too
The second reason for the change was that although I liked a lot of things about my previous theme there were things that I was never happy with. The banner didn’t really turn out as I wanted and I missed my old B&W inverted images, three of them have now returned. The drop cap was a nice idea but it broke some older posts and made blogging from Flickr impossible with out editing by hand afterwards.
Originally I had wanted to break out of the default WordPress layout but when I gave up writing my own template and decided to use K2, which is not much different from the standard one and I didn’t do much work to change it.
I have kept most of the colour scheme from the previous theme, this was a last minute decision when I decided that the colours I had been using were too stark.
This theme gives me some more room to play with due to some stuff being tucked away in the “drawers”. So I have added recent comments and a message box. My recently played tracks from last.fm are now at the bottom of the page wit the technorati search box. The last.fm chart includes a preview button for tracks that they have in their system so you can get the usual 15 second preview by clicking the green speaker.
I will continue to tweak the design over the next few days and if the browser you use is doing something terrible with it then please let me know. I have still to run it through the checkers.
Oh and click the search link at the top it is way cool.
Oh and if you are reading this post on my LJ or Blogger mirror, sorry for wasting your time.
Kev
This entry was originally published at Darkest Before Dawn
Yes I have changed my theme yet again. The teaser posts were leading up to this and hopefully they make sense once now.
I discovered this theme thanks to Aj who is also using a theme by Derek Punsalan
Now the reasons why. Well first of all I saw the “drawer” effect on Aj blog and the geek in me took over, go on click about or blogs above, you know you want too
The second reason for the changes was that although I liked a lot of things about my previous theme there were things that I was never happy with. The banner didn’t really turn out as I wanted and I missed my old B&W inverted images, three of them have now returned. The drop cap was a nice idea but it broke some older posts and made blogging from Flickr impossible with out editing by hand afterwards.
Originally I had wanted to break out of the default WordPress layout but when I gave up writing my own template and decided to use K2, which is not much different from the standard one and I didn’t do much work to change it.
I have kept most of the colour scheme from the previous theme, this was a last minute decision when I decided that the colours I had been using were too stark.
This theme gives me some more room to play with due to some stuff being tucked away in the “drawers”. So I have added recent comments and a message box. My recently played tracks from last.fm are now at the bottom of the page wit the technorati search box. The last.fm chart includes a preview button for tracks that they have in their system so you can get the usual 15 second preview by clicking the green speaker.
I will continue to tweak the design over the next few days and if the browser you use is doing something terrible with it then please let me know. I have still to run it through the checkers.
Oh and click the search link at the top it is way cool.
Oh and if you are reading this post on my LJ or Blogger mirror, sorry for wasting your time.
Kev
This entry was originally published at Darkest Before Dawn
Yes I have changed my theme yet again. The teaser posts were leading up to this and hopefully they make sense once now.
I discovered this theme thanks to Aj who is also using a theme by Derek Punsalan
Now the reasons why. Well first of all I saw the “drawer” effect on Aj blog and the geek in me took over, go on click about or blogs above, you know you want too
The second reason for the changes was that although I liked a lot of things about my previous theme there were things that I was never happy with. The banner didn’t really turn out as I wanted and I missed my old B&W inverted images, three of them have now returned. The drop cap was a nice idea but it broke some older posts and made blogging from Flickr impossible with out editing by hand afterwards.
Originally I had wanted to break out of the default WordPress layout but when I gave up writing my own template and decided to use K2, which is not much different from the standard one and I didn’t do much work to change it.
I have kept most of the colour scheme from the previous theme, this was a last minute decision when I decided that the colours I had been using were too stark.
This theme gives me some more room to play with due to some stuff being tucked away in the “drawers”. So I have added recent comments and a message box. My recently played tracks from last.fm are now at the bottom of the page wit the technorati search box. The last.fm chart includes a preview button for tracks that they have in their system so you can get the usual 15 second preview by clicking the green speaker.
I will continue to tweak the design over the next few days and if the browser you use is doing something terrible with it then please let me know. I have still to run it through the checkers.
Oh and click the search link at the top it is way cool.
Oh and if you are reading this post on my LJ or Blogger mirror, sorry for wasting your time.
Kev
This entry was originally published at Darkest Before Dawn
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
Tacitus
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A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don’t find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
James M. Barrie
Scottish dramatist & novelist (1860 - 1937)
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Well I am pleased to say that my legs and feet are no where as sore as they were last week and I completed the Clydebank 10K in an unofficial personal best time of 1 hour 4 minutes.
I seems there should have been medals at the Helensburgh 10K last week but it seems the supplier sent ones marked Half Marathon by mistake, I should get the Helensburgh medal at the fourth race in the series.
Okay off for a soak in the bath.
Kev
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Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.
Benjamin Disraeli, Speech, Edinburgh (1867)
British politician (1804 - 1881)
