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This was pretty inevitable, but it seems that the Sony battery fiasco has led to a world wide shortage. From Daily Tech…

Over the last several months, a number of top tier companies have been asking customers to return batteries for replacement due to safety concerns. If you have been following the news on DailyTech, a total of roughly 8 million batteries have been recalled worldwide, all of which are manufactured by Sony.

I need to get a new battery for my Powerbook, which is dead, but unfortunately out of warranty, and not covered by the re-call, but there’s now a 3-4 week wait. Damn you Sony.

While trying to diagnose a problem with my camera, and after some extensive google searching I came across this excellent list of image artefacts that can occur with digital images and cameras.

Cool video podcast on taking photos while out walking. It’s all in the name really.

I’ve been spending the last little while collating all my photographs into one library, and here is the first fruits of my labour. I’ve posted a portfolio of sorts, with some of my favourite (though there are lots more) into a nice web gallery. It’s just done using the default settings, but I hope to do it better with some proper server side gallery software when I figure out how.

Please take a look!

Seriously.

“The woman was dismissed shortly after getting the job in February 2000 after telling a training instructor that she had difficulty sitting up straight because she was heavy-chested and naturally slouches…..”

read the rest from breakingnews.ie

Very useful site that covers all sorts of information on various aspects of consumer rights in the digital age, from drm, to libel laws.

digitalrights.ie

Silicon Color, the company that makes the Final Touch grading system that we use at work has been acquired by Apple. What this means for the product is yet unclear, but it has an eery sense of familiarity, reminding me of the day when Apple bought nothing real (Shake). Final Touch is a superb piece of software, or at least it could be. In it’s current incarnation, it’s a little rough around the edges, belying it’s unix heritage. Apple will either keep developing this as a seperate product, or they will roll the technology into final cut studio. Either way, it provides them with a complete end to end solution, as proper colour grading tools were all that they were missing form the complete package.

I decided to be adventurous the other night and take some photos of Dublin city at night. Funnily enough, although I’ve been taking photograph’s for rears I’ve never really done much night photography. Probably because Dublin can be a scary place after dark, especially when lugging around some expensive camera equipment. It was worth it though. It is the most satisfied I’ve been in years after coming back from a shoot. Click on the pic above to view the flickr set.

I also have some nice panoramic prints of Dublin at night too for sale on my cafepress store.