In pictures: D-Day memorials

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"U.S. Memorial Day History and
Information on U.S. War Memorials"

"U.S. Memorial Day History and
Information on U.S. War Memorials" 05/30/2004 02:36 PM

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Watch me grow

BBC NEWS | In Pictures | In pictures:
Watch me grow 06/30/2004 09:31 AM

these pictures

these pictures 02/17/2004 06:09 AM
Friday .. these

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No pictures please

No pictures please 06/17/2004 06:34 AM
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Not enough cat pictures on the net?

Not enough cat pictures on the net? 06/06/2005 12:09 AM
From CNN Money, Bank of America gets personal: Bank of America will require Internet clients to register their computers and assign a digital image, such as a photo of a pet, to their accounts in an effort to cut down...

Pictures of Nothing

Pictures of Nothing 01/01/2005 12:36 AM
End-of-2004 remarks, punctuated by five pictures of nothing...

"pictures"

"pictures" 12/10/2003 10:15 PM

pictures

pictures 12/12/2003 04:36 AM
Album 2 .. his .. 2

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SID in Pictures

SID in Pictures 05/27/2004 01:47 PM

E3 in Pictures

E3 in Pictures 05/19/2004 07:16 PM

First N-Gage 2 Pictures

First N-Gage 2 Pictures 04/09/2004 03:55 PM
JOEL JOHNSON --Someone has leaked the first shots of Nokia's next N-Gage iteration, and sadly all the reports are true: Sidetalkin', the go-to joke of 2003 is no more. What's more, there is also a proper MMC slot so that games can be inserted without removing the battery. Although this...

LinuxWorld in Pictures

LinuxWorld in Pictures 08/05/2004 02:13 PM
ET's Loyd Case hit the West Coast edition of LinuxWorld and saw some cool hardware and neat gadgets based on the upstart operating system. But is the commercial rush drowning out the counterculture nature of the Linux community?

In pictures: New EU celebrates

In pictures: New EU celebrates 05/01/2004 03:15 AM

Moving pictures

Moving pictures 01/16/2004 11:27 AM

I wanted to demonstrate the SpamBayes plug-in for the school, and I realized I ought to try the screen-capture feature of the free Windows Media Encoder 9. The results were stunning. I set up a new session, pointed it at Outlook's main window, and began encoding. Then I talked through a demonstration of SpamBayes' configuration manager, its Delete and Recover toolbar buttons, and my techniques for integrating SpamBayes with Outlook's filtering and foldering. Along the way I pointed with the cursor to items of interest, opened and closed dialog boxes, and drove the Outlook interface as I normally do.

The resulting six-minute video had the same format as my Outlook window, which happened to be about 750-by-620. The file came in at just under 3MB. I FTP'd it to my Website and, because I'd chosen the progressive-download option, playback was immediate. It was also perfectly readable and audible. Elapsed time from the moment I thought of trying this to the end of playback: about 25 minutes. Next time it'll take 10. Why don't more people do this? Because it wasn't this easy before. Now, it is. [Full story at InfoWorld.com]

I wanted to post that video here, but I'm afraid I can't because it reveals too much of the contents of my inbox. However, I'll definitely be using this technique in the future. One killer application, if you sit in on a lot of WebEx demos as I do, is the ability to record them, play them back, and publish excerpts from them. ...

"really cool pictures taken from the
air"

"really cool pictures taken from the
air" 08/10/2004 09:24 PM

"these nutty pictures"

"these nutty pictures" 08/17/2004 09:24 PM

Captioned Pictures in CSS

Captioned Pictures in CSS 08/18/2004 10:26 AM

Photo Cards: Here's a good, simple, obvious solution to an annoying problem. Whenever a picture needed a caption, I surrounded the entire thing in a DIV and floated it left or right. However, I had to set the width of the DIV so it would float correctly, and to do this, I had to know the width of the image, which may or may not have been available at code-time.

Though, we have to remember the width of floated blocks must be set (otherwise they may be spread to the full width and there's no floating). Of course, we can solve it by setting display:inline to the DIV — the width of floating element is then adjusted by its content. But we have to remove all blocks inside it (inline elenent must not contain blocks) and use only line breaks BR. Sometimes this simplified formatting may be sufficient.

I never would have thought to set a DIV to "display: inline." Yes, now you have an ugly BR tag, but you've traded an unknown problem (the width of the image) for a known one (the existence of a BR), and I can live with that.

(BTW, I'm finding all these great CSS articles via this feed, which has the most fantastic set of CSS links I've seen every single day. I don't know anything about the site except that each day its full of great new solutions to thorny CSS issues. I understand its some kind of roll-up site for a bunch of CSS links from a bunch of different people, but I don't really care. Just keep them coming.)

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iMac G5 in pictures

iMac G5 in pictures 08/31/2004 05:00 PM
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Pictures of UFOs.

Pictures of UFOs. 01/05/2004 05:29 PM
Pictures of UFOs.

In pictures: After the siege

In pictures: After the siege 09/04/2004 10:10 AM
Images from Russia of the aftermath of the school siege bloodbath in Beslan.

Last Year in Pictures

Last Year in Pictures 01/03/2004 12:14 AM

A Year in Pictures: My buddy Rob has shuttered AYearInPictures.com after giving us all...well, a year in pictures.

After publishing a picture a day for the last year I think it's time to close the doors and move onto something else. I consider this project to be a huge success. It was intended as a way for me to motivate myself to improve my photography skills by challenging me to find new and interesting subjects on a consistent basis. I won't claim to have published 365 masterpieces, but a few of them were pretty good.

Thanks Rob — I'll never look at a church, a butterfly, or a ballgame the same way again. This one in particular is a postcard just waiting to happen. The last one he publishes with this entry is a beaut too.

To get the full effect of what Rob was able to do with a camera, go to one of the category pages, and just start scrolling.

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Pictures from Madeira

Pictures from Madeira 01/19/2004 01:56 PM

Two photo albums from a week in Madeira: Part 1 and Part 2. Pictures with "madle-" in the name were taken with the Leica, "madlo-" were taken with the Lomo and anything else was taken with the Elph. Since the Leica was new and I hadn't had any pictures developed with it yet, I am impressed with just how good the photos are as it has been a while since I've used a fully manual camera. The Lomo pictures are a bit freaky as expected though. A tip for photographers travelling to Madeira is to take plenty of film with you as all they appear to sell on the island is Fuji consumer grade film which made a difference in my pictures when compared to the Kodak and better Fuji colour film I had brought with me. A polarizing filter is essential for the landscapes during the daytime, too. I didn't have one for the Leica so there aren't many pictures of scenery.

Madeira is an island which lies approximately 660km west of Morocco in the Atlantic and is part of Portugal. The word Madeira itself means wooded since it was full of trees when it was discovered. Nowadays, however, it is covered with hotels and tourists. It also has the most moderate climate in the world with very little difference in temperature all year. The airport has one of the shortest runways used by commercial jets which was recently doubled in length by extending it on stilts to 2,781 metres. Jarkko wisely informed me of this fun factoid only after we landed.

Funchal is the main city on Madeira. I was disappointed that no tourist brochures proclaimed, "We put the FUN in FUNCHAL!", but I suppose that's too corny even for the usually silly tourist slogans that abound everywhere. We stayed in a hotel very near downtown which had a casino next to it that looked like the headquarters for Spectre. I suppose we should have gone inside the casino and had a look around but casinos usually only manage to fill me with the urge to run to the nearest exit with all the flashing lights and noise. This may be a side effect of all those years of late nights spent in dance clubs. It was a lovely hotel with a fine pool in the 70s concrete school of architecture. Madeira would be absolutely nowhere without concrete since the local volcanic basalt is too hard and difficult to quarry. The sidewalks are beautiful mosaics with white limestone and black basalt chips arranged in geometric patterns. These do tend to get a bit slippery in the rain though.

The first thing I noticed after we settled into the hotel was the sound of the birds; big, squawking tropical birds filling the air along with little birds singing before sunset. Stray dogs are everywhere as well, but they are obviously fed by the locals as they appear to be well fed and healthy doggies living the good life. I saw very few stray cats however. Exotic flowers such as the bird of paradise grow like weeds all around the city and plants that would normally be tiny, wan, and pitiful things on your windowsill are gargantuan in this sub-tropical paradise. Christmas lights were everywhere and on everything that could be made to hold lights. I don't know if Funchal has the most Christmas lights of any city in the world, but it certainly could be. It takes them several months to hang all the lights around the city in trees, on bridges, on light posts, on statues and everywhere else. Funchal is also one of the cleanest cities I've ever been in which may be due to litter bins placed along the streets every 20 metres or an army of people sweeping the streets late into the night. I didn't see so much as a cigarette butt on the streets of Funchal. The streets are filled with lots of older tourists from the UK and the Nordic countries which made us feel too young for Madeira but too old for Ibiza.

Madeira is a very hilly island which the travel books and brochures really don't emphasize enough. If you walk anywhere it is likely that you'll be walking uphill or downhill with some degree of difficulty. Funchal is mostly flat unless you want to walk north of the city to one of the botanical gardens which is a bit of a challenge. We walked to the Botanical Garden which took about an hour and was, in some places, about a 45% grade. The weather is cool enough to make this a pleasant ascent in spite of the exertion. The Botanical Garden suffers from not being terribly well maintained so the reward at the top of the hill isn't equal to the walk but it still had lovely views of the city below. The cable car trip to the Monte Palace Tropical Garden is far easier than walking up the mountain and the garden itself is spectacularly odd and beautiful. I would have spent another day there given the chance. Jarkko somehow convinced me that taking a toboggan ride down the hill was a good idea and it was strangely thrilling in spite of my terror of careening down a mountain on a contraption with no brakes and whizzing around cars. It's a fun thing to do...once. :)

Unless you are a UK tourist looking for excellent curry or chips and egg while on holiday, the food on Madeira is nothing short of sublime. The grilled swordfish I ordered one evening was nothing short of the best I've ever had. The local limpets fried and coated in garlic butter were fabulous as well. We were told to try the scabbard fish, Espada, with bananas as Madeira is the only place other than Thailand where you can taste this dish. The fish is delicious but it is best tried before you see the very ugly fish in the market. It is caught at a surprisingly deep 800m and dies and turns black from decompression on its way to the surface. Giant round gelatinous eyes and vicious teeth also don't do much for the appearance of the scabbard fish. I don't like bananas very much but the local variety is smaller, sweeter and fresher than the ones in the supermarket and I loved a desert of bananas and creme caramel a waiter surprised me with one evening. One restaurant we took a special liking to was Ars�nios in the Zona Velha which featured Fado singers, a stray named Bimbo and a chef with flair who knew his way around the grill. Portuguese wines were a special feature. We tried a green wine that is made from green [ not ripe ] grapes which makes the wine a bit tart and it has a lower alcohol content. There were carts all along the seaside that sold local foods like churros and chestnuts at all hours of the day and night. The chestnut cart generated quite a bit of smoke at times but it didn't appear to deter people from wading through the smoke for a bag. The chestnuts are soft, meaty and slightly sweet but should be enjoyed with a beverage close at hand since they will make you thirsty. Surprisingly, the local Madeira wine isn't pushed as much as I had expected. Madeira is a very sweet wine that is best suited to drinking after a meal with dessert. We tried all the varieties from dry to full sweet and I found the full sweet to be much more flavourful than the dry in spite of my dislike of sweet wines. The sunshine was nice in Madeira but the food was nothing short of fabulous.

The geography of the island is beautiful and varied. The mountains rise dramatically into a treeless plateau which is a striking contrast to the eucalyptus forest and agricultural terraces you pass on the way up. The roads are narrow and winding with steep vertical drops. It isn't a paradise for those afraid of heights. :) One of the more popular attractions for tourists are the levada walks; a levada is one of the many channels built to collect and carry the water from the top of the island to lower parts of the island where it is used for agriculture. There are also a number of tours around the island that are safer than hiring a car yourself and driving around the crazy roads. I glimpsed death more than a few times on the 2 tours we took around the island. A snag with the tours is that all of the tour offices are fronts for time share scams and they seem to prey on people from the UK and the Nordic region in particular. If you get caught by one of these grifters just say that you're German since they don't appear to be recruited for these 'opportunities'. Book your tours ahead of time or find a reputable tour operator before you leave. Also, avoid the bridge from the hotel zone into Funchal as I dubbed it 'grifters bridge' where they assail you on every pass. If you want to spend your holiday in the same place for the next 29 years, just buy a house there as it's cheaper and it builds equity.

Overall, Madeira is a lovely place to visit for a relaxing and sunny holiday with plenty of good food and drink to enjoy. We had a good time but if we go back sometime, I think I'd like to stay in a small hotel outside of Funchal and try more of the levada hikes and other trips around the island.

Getting the My Pictures Directory

Getting the My Pictures Directory 07/15/2004 03:48 PM

Hello - Google gets into pictures

Hello - Google gets into pictures 07/29/2004 08:41 PM

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Been wondering what Google’s latest endeavor is? Google has recently announced their picture sharing service called “Hello”. Designed to allow their users to share photos without fear of emailing attachments to each other, it is the perfect solution for sharing your favorite pictures with loved ones. Hello is a free service and definitely worth checking out….

Motorola MPx Pictures

Motorola MPx Pictures 03/08/2004 11:19 PM
The upcoming Motorola MPx is so hot that it's getting otherwise non-techy geeks excited. Tycho, who co-authors the popular web comic Penny Arcade (and who...

Cicada Pictures

Cicada Pictures 05/14/2004 04:44 PM
Until we get the swarm, if that ever happens, these will be my last cicada pictures of the season. I'm actually proud of three of...

Pictures and Lies

Pictures and Lies 03/06/2004 02:06 AM
I was poking around the Web today and in the space of a minute, ran across two completely different pictures that made me shake my head and think “That’s a lie.” Here they are...

Naked Little Pictures

Naked Little Pictures 05/13/2004 02:08 PM
JANE PINCKARD -- Quick, get your voyeurism in now. There's a bill before U.S. Congress now that may make it illegal for you to photograph, videotape, or otherwise record people dressing and undressing in locker rooms. Of course, in Japan - where voyeurism has long been an art onto itself...

Bento Pictures

Bento Pictures 05/13/2004 12:54 AM
Bento box character photos .. yemeinle oynama jerry! .. puo' succedere di tutto .. Japanese Lunchboxes .. ������ � .. look this cool? .. Advanced sushi .. Fear of Bento .. Japanser .. gemaakt .. bento .. lunch

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Pictures from Iraq

Pictures from Iraq 04/24/2004 11:56 PM
Pictures from Iraq Allegedly from someone who served in Iraq.

Panos Pictures

Panos Pictures 07/14/2004 05:16 AM
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Panos Pictures is a London-based independent photo agency representing photojournalists worldwide. Our photographers document issues and geographical areas which are under-reported, misrepresented or ignored. In a media climate dominated by celebrity and lifestyle Panos aims to provide fresh perspectives on the world. Panos photographers are available for assignment on every continent. Their in depth knowledge of local conditions enables them to deliver even in the most difficult situations. This website allows you to search, download and purchase from our ever growing archive of digitised images. If you cannot find the image you require our experienced researchers are on hand to help you locate what you are looking for in our physical archive of over 500,000 images. Half of the profits from the agency are given to the Panos Insititute to further its work on issues around media and communications, globalisation, HIV/AIDS and environment and conflict. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Microsoft gets into pictures

Microsoft gets into pictures 07/21/2004 08:13 PM

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Digital Media Thoughts reports that Microsoft has their eye on offering the next new video standard for the broadcast industry. While the industry is considering the latest successor to the standard video format, MPEG-4 AVC or H.264. Microsoft would prefer to see the industry move to their own VC-9 and MPEG-4 AVC formats instead….

New iRiver PMC-100 Pictures

New iRiver PMC-100 Pictures 07/29/2004 01:10 PM

DAPreview found some new hi-resolution shots of the upcoming iRiver PMC-100, the Microsoft-based Portable Media Center that is the cousin to the non-Microsoft PMP-120/140. It looks considerably different than the original, more slab-like mockup we'd shown you, but it does look a lot more practical to use. It also looks like it is probably just a remolded bit of plastic that fits over the same hardware that powers the PMP-1xx series players.

I still like the old design better, but I also know which one I'd rather hold in my hands for two hours at a time.

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The Power of Pictures

The Power of Pictures 05/07/2004 01:31 PM

By many accounts, the horrible treatment of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers and mercenaries has been going on ever since the end of the invasion. The Red Cross warned U.S. officials a year ago. Yet it took those ugly photographs to turn this into the huge story that it's become. Which raises some questions: Suppose the Americans hadn't bothered to take pictures of each other in that infamous prison? Suppose they'd just gone on abusing the prisoners without cameras? Does a story exist without pictures?

Marathon pictures

Marathon pictures 07/19/2004 02:53 PM
Our 2004 Rock-n-Roll Marathon pictures are online.

In pictures: The ruins from above

In pictures: The ruins from above 01/03/2005 08:09 AM
Aerial photographs of the devastation caused by the tsunami that hit Indian Ocean countries on 26 December.

Fuzzy Pictures

Fuzzy Pictures 10/29/2003 09:12 AM
Finally Fuzzy2 got released

CES: Pictures from the show

CES: Pictures from the show 01/06/2005 08:02 PM
Some cool products and publicity stunts happening at CES in Las Vegas.

Pictures of Lauren

Pictures of Lauren 03/23/2005 02:33 AM
She needed some photos for professional reasons, so I took a bunch and then, while fiddling around with PhotoShop, discovered that you can have some serious fun in the glamorizing line. Herewith Lauren Wood, Ph.D. with plumblossoms, twice...
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