Yet another image test 

The last post was from Picasa, via hello onto blogger.com. Picasa for those without it is an incredibly cool windows ( please please do a linux version, I will have to stay in windows till you do, or forgo picasa ) from Google, hello is sort of a photo instant messaging system when you post from picasa you end up in like a IM window, but with the image, put in a comment, hit return & voila, it's talked to blogger.com & your post is up. Kinda of clunky the two pass, I prefer emailing from Picasa to gmail it's one click really sweet, auto resize the lot.
Picasa's only reqal weakness is cataloging, for instance my folders are original's, that is easy to remove, then photo->best->pbase and I filter till the pbase ones I post @ pbase.com, but give picase 300 pbase folders & it's not real easy to manage & there is no way I found to setup local .ini files to change the names, it would be easy to script that, so I'll stay with gqview for editing photo's for now, but for easy viewing picasa rocks.

Nigel

Not sure if this is in New Jersey or New York, I went to a friends place, hey George & on the way home drove around, unfortunately I had no idea where I was, but had a US country map, so got back ok, but ended up taking this photo, one of my early ones, it was back in October 2003, though still very much one of my favourites.
Nigel

Trying to get a gmail email account :),. working for CNBC US & about to head to New Jersey

Peking Duck linked to a very well thought out piece by Andrew Sullivan, there is no doubt weblog's have reached another level with the debate over the war in Iraq where so many smart people can publish their opinions & musings in such a public way. Good stuff.

I'm still working on doing adaptive terrain rendering, I like Hogue Hoppe's paper but as has been pointed out, it's missing a few bits.

Cool idea from Dom, doing drop shadows on our graphic images, the trick would be transparency, but should not be too bad, just do a blur of the entire image & change it too grey scale.

This is my Blog, some interesting articles on the war in Iraq, probably the best was Ian Murray , also found a neat explanation for the start of WW1 http://www.questia.com/ Probably the most interesting was the following quote.
"It was thought that the only way to save the threatened existence of the Monarchy was to give proof to the world of its vitality by administering an exemplary chastisement to this dangerous neighbour"

Now why does that sound familiar.