No sun – no moon!
Thomas Hood, 1789-1845
No morn – no noon –
No dawn – no dusk – no proper time of day.
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member –
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! –
November!
Category: Life
Random thoughts on life
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November
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Why you SHOULD listen to that inner voice
For a while now I’ve not been happy with the sound my car was making. Not from the engine but what appeared to be the suspension. It was quite subtle, but I’m sure it didn’t sound quite right – the thud as I went over pot-holes and speed humps was louder that it should have been.
Anyway, a couple of weeks ago I took my wife’s car to the garage because I thought the exhaust was blowing. It wasn’t and I felt I’d just wasted the garage’s time. So I put my car’s suspension problems to the back of my mind.
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Barack Obama
It’s not very often you’ll hear me involved, or even talking about, US politics but they have such a far-reach that who is elected to that country affects us all.But Barack Obama must, surely, become President. McCain doesn’t appear enough of a change from Bush – and a change is what we need badly. On top of that I’m down-right scared of Sarah Palin.
The polls look good for Obama, but they’ve been wrong before. We can only hope.
And with Lewis Hamilton the world F1 champion, it looks to be a good week for black people around the world.
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Reading Photoshop captions in PHP
Last month I posted about how to read Picasa captions in PHP.
Now that I own Photoshop Elements I decided I’d check to see where that applications stores its captions. And after some testing I can reveal… just the same place as Picasa.
Kind of. Well, if you give a photo a caption using Photoshop Elements then my previous script will read it without any issue. However, if you add the caption using Picasa then view the photo in Photoshop Elements… it doesn’t recognise it. The other way around, however, works. Weird.
But, hey, it means you can use my same script to recognise the caption no matter which application you use.
I’m assuming Photoshop works in the same was as Photoshop Elements – if anybody tries it, please let me know the outcome.
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Sign Post
Ahh, it’s Friday so it’s time for something a little mad.
When Swansea council wanted to put up a new sign that read “No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only.” they, naturally, wanted to add a Welsh translation. So they emailed the appropriate person who promptly replied back with, what they thought was, the translation.
Except it wasn’t. It was an out of office message. The Welsh translation on the sign therefore reads “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated.”