Photofusion, Dublin new & old

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Raphael

You might have seen these type of photo montage where an old photo is mixed with a new one. This is what we decided to try my daughter and myself.

We got the old photos (1961) from Charles W. Cushman, “An American, [who] travelled the world for 30 years, including a visit to Dublin.“.

The 2 photos I decided to work with are of the front of Trinity College and the Bank Of Ireland building. This corner of Dublin has changed a lot in 50 years, more trees, signs, traffic lights,… Anyway, here are the results.

The first one is a polaroid of the old on top of the new. There were too many elements on the photo to manage a different montage.

The second one is a real mix. Some road, pedestrians and 2 modern Dublin Bus are included in the 1961 street view, this is working well.

You can see another “photofusion” by visiting my daughter’s website.

Raphael

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expansys’ unrealistic stock and status…

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Raphael

See update at the bottom (Thursday 13th October)

I wanted to order a new Canon DSLR. After looking at different online shops, I decided to use expansys for 3 reasons:

  • The prices were similar to all the other shops
  • I have used them a lot before and they always been good in term of price and delivery time
  • they had everything I wanted in stock (very important!).

So, on Friday 23rd of September I placed my order and paid with Paypal. I immediately received the order confirmation… all good, all good! Continue reading →

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Holidays calendar in Google Spreadsheet with scripting

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Raphael

At work, we found that the easiest way to track holidays (days off) was to use a Google Docs spreadsheet. The only issue we had was to keep track of the days taken by each of us, but scripting came to the rescue!  You can access the spreadsheet in Google Docs from this link. Create a copy and share it as you see fit. The script is in full below with comments but let’s go through some of the interesting parts first.

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15 years online!

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Raphael

Last month (February 2011) marked my 15th year anniversary of internet activity. It started at the end of February 1996 on my first Windows computer (Windows 95 was magic… was it not?) and an old 14,400 modem from my Atari’s days.

I had to wait for the price (monthly subscription + local calls) to come down before our family budget could accomodate this large expense. The company was fcnet (they are still in business) and my first email address was very complicated, no one could understand it. It might have been due to the fact that only a few people knew what it was for.

The major milestones:

  • First time online.
  • Dialup for free with no time limit and better speed (V92!) from free.fr.
  • Buying my domain (savina,net) and having an easy to give email address.
  • Cable modem with a decent speed and a fixed monthly cost not linked to the time spent online. Also not using the only phone line in the house, no more busy tone.
  • Broadband coming in Ireland (long-awaited!).
  • Wifi to connect computers and phones to the same connection without cables.
  • Using Google App for email, Docs, Calandar. Stop using an email client.
  • Android smartphone (Nexus One) with g3reat internet access and usable browser.
  • Cable modem with decent web 2.0 speed (30MB).

I am looking forward for the next 15 years, I am not sure what to expect…

Raphael

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Updated movie collection is online

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Raphael

Using DVDpedia, I have placed online our list of movies.

The template used for the export is Antracite but with some tweaks. First, I have created my own banners using different covers. Then I have changed few things on the index and details page.

The statistics page was not included in this template so I have added it (meta tag and link on the page).

Raphaël

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Photos du chalet…

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Raphael

To rent this house for a quiet holiday in France, please see our listing on Airbnb.

Pour louer cette maison pour des vacances au calme en France, passez par notre annonce sur Airbnb.

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