October 2008 « hawkinsdale.com

REAL Football

This is some serious football.

It’s also an attempt to frame a subject, and provide depth, by making the out-of-focus players in the background look at the subject, which is the only thing in focus.

October 19th, 2008 | Tags: soccer | Category: Photos, sport | Leave a comment

Football is Good, But Ice Cream is Better

54,000 screaming football fans are all very well… But this was some mighty fine ice cream.

October 12th, 2008 | Tags: football, ice cream | Category: Photos, sport | Leave a comment

HOWTO: Get Rhapsody to Work on Ubuntu Linux

I subscribe to Rhapsody, the music service. I have no Windows machines any more (except for my work laptop), but that’s OK: Rhapsody has a web client, that (barely) works on Macs. Recently, I decided to try to make it work on my Ubuntu machine.

I use Ubuntu at work, for non-work things. Since I telecommute, I have no local IT support, to fix computer diseases, and so I need to protect my Windows laptop at all costs: no browsing anything that I (or my company) didn’t write.

So I have a separate machine, running Ubuntu Linux, for Web browsing, music playing, video watching, etc., as well as a backup server.

Everything works great, except that the Rhapsody plugin for Firefox wouldn’t function.

It was a bit of a slog to make it work, which I lay out here, in hopes that others will find it useful.

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October 8th, 2008 | Tags: Linux, rhapsody, Ubuntu | Category: Linux | Comments (4)

Reservoir, October 8

October 8th, 2008 | Tags: autumn | Category: Photos | Leave a comment

I Like the Dark

I generally don’t like flash photography, even with a diffuser. I think that photos should convey what it was like to be in the place that you’re shooting, and flash photos don’t do that for me.

I’ve been experimenting with long-exposure pictures at parties, and camping. It requires that you yell at people to hold still, which isn’t always successful.

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