Wednesday, 6 March 2002

Yeh! A picture. I managed to make a reasonably sized version of one of my first photos. Here we have a picture of the laptop on which I am currently typing. Say hello to 'angua' everybody. Many apologies to the people at ArcSoft for saying their software wasn't up to the job, as usual it was user error. A short sharp sting of RTFM and I was away. 3:40:55 PM

Today I went out and bought a digital camera. Well, to be precise I purchased a Canon Digital IXUS V from the lovely people at Paxtons. I got a digital camera so that I could take lots of quick photos and easily post them on the web, either here, or at my other site. We now run into our first hurdle. Even on a reasonable setting the jpg files the camera produces are 200k or so in size. Not the kind of thing you want to slot into a blog. So I had a look in the box to see what software came bundled with the camera to allow me to manipulate these images and make them small enough to include here. All we get is PhotoImpression 3.0 from ArcSoft. This, of course, allows you to perform all sorts of image manipulations apart from the one I want. So no pictures here. Luckily I have a copy of Paint Shop Pro. All I need to do is transfer it to this machine and we should be up, up and away. I bet you can't wait now, can you? 3:02:09 PM

This should be the motto of every discussion board or usenet group; Voltaire. "I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it." [Quotes of the Day] Of course, people would disagree with me, tell me I suck, and then someone would compare someone else to Hitler and Godwin's Law would be one step closer to absolute truth. 2:04:57 PM

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