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View Article  Things I learned this week
1) You can house a company anywhere even in a Massachusetts Town house, just don't go how to the basement as there is a Trapdoor down there.

2) Six minutes is the average duration that someone watches a movie in a hotel room, you may ask how I found this out, well it was from a Sheraton Hotel rep in a Boston Logan Airport Bar. I wonder what they were watching and I wonder if they were male?

3) You can have your cake and eat it, There was a 2 for 1 deal on Jaffa Cakes at Tescos.

4) Exchange is the only way to go. After my Hotmail Plus account packed up again on Wednesday night and no response from Hotmail support for 48 hours.. There seems no more reason to keep it when your playing £14.99 for something that isn't supported. So I've moved all email over to my domain with Fasthosts.
 
5) In the highway code it says reflective road studs  may be used with white lines.
  • White studs mark the lanes or the middle of the road.
  • Red studs mark the left edge of the road.
  • Amber studs mark the central reservation of a dual carriageway or motorway.
  • Green studs mark the edge of the main carriageway at lay-bys, side roads and slip roads.
View Article  Adobe Lightroom Public Beta 4
Yesterday I decided to take the plunge and try Abobe Lightroom.. Thanks Gee  It's avalible in two flavours PC and Mac.

The advertising says that its been built from the ground up by photographers for photographers, helping solve your unique workflow problems. Well I've got to say that it really does take the effort out of coverting, touching up, add metadata, archiving etc. These are all jobs that I had to do is different packages and it brings them all under one roof in a interface that isn't just easy to understand its logical too with the library, develop and print tabs these are all features that are understandable as people have been using them for years in photography.and with the addition of the web tab getting your pictures online couldn't be easier. Example of the added metadata. This was metadata I put in for the copyright for my Flickr account


This is a screen grab of the interface taken while I was touching up some images of AutoClav 1.1  from Infest 06 in Bradford. Click on the image to expand it.


Unless someone can point out another bit of software that does all this I think I may just be buying a copy when it's release.
View Article  My photos published in Schmap Las Vegas
Below are the two photographs that have been published in the Las Vegas travel guide made by Schmap.. A link to the guides are on the right. I'm quite chuffed that they chose my pictures. Schmap make searchable maps, playable tours and reviews for hundreds of sights and attractions, hotels, restaurants, bars, parks, theaters, galleries, museums. Check them out
.                 Lion at the MGM GrandExcalibur Las Vegas Resort Hotel and Casino