According to AllergyUK, 2%-3% of us suffer from a food allergy, while a fifth of the population believe they have food intolerance.
- Food fighters, The Guardian 2005-01-08
An article I was trying to track down - you are not as ill as you (are being led to) think.
“Imperfect sound forever” is a wide ranging article that discusses the problem with over-compressed music on modern CDs which has garnered a fair amount of attention lately, but also covers how we now consume music and everything else in our lives.
…Much faster than the post from Australia to the UK, for example. Two months after buying via Abebooks, and probably four after putting the book on my watch list, my copy of Trent Parke’s “Dream/Life” finally arrived yesterday. Frankly, it would have been worth it if I’d had to wait over twice that long.
BB thought our AMD Athlon XP 2000-based system was pretty cutting-edge when we installed it three years ago. Well, by “cutting-edge” we mean “approximately equivalent to the Ars Technica Budget Box” recommendation of the day. Trouble is, we continued to think of it as cutting-edge while the days flew by and the rest of the world went 64 bit. Then we discovered that LightZone required a processor capability known as SSE2 - a capability that Ye Olde Athlone lacked.
As part of a fact-finding mission to the remote Southern parts of Wales last week, BB was fortunate - nay, privileged - to take the sea air along the Knap at Barry Island. Walking to the end of the promenade, we came to a large grassed (or perhaps “scrub” would be more accurate) area delineated by straight paths and surrounded by two curved concrete seating blocks somewhat reminiscent of stands around a pool.
Over at Babylon Wales, Anthony Brockway has been observing Maciej Dakowicz at work as he photographs another night out at the Glamorgan County Council staff club. Maciej’s work will be well-known to anyone who follows the Wales And The Welsh Flickr group pool. This is an evocative written portrait of a talented people photographer at work.
Baby growth charts in use across NHS by health visitors are out of date, based on unsuitable data and could cause obesity shock!
WebSphere Application Server on Sun/UNIX has bugs in the performance viewer and convertScriptCompatibility command.
Life too simple? Dull? Lacking adventure? WAS V6 is here to change all that! In no time, those long, rainy afternoons sat comatose in front of the monitor will be a distant happy memory, as you swear, curse and throw your hands up in exasperation at the sheer regrettable tragedy of the continued blight of IBM on this earth. Why does IBM WebSphere exist? Because there is no god, only a random and entropic natural universe ranged against us.
(I originally wrote a long screed about the gradual cessation of my photography due to the huge backlog of images waiting to be processed, but I’ll save that whine for another day. This is an extract based on finding a way to churn through less important images with less effort.)
What I Need Is: a quick way to convert a digital image to (pleasing) monochrome, optimise levels, sharpen, tone it and scale it for web output. This is mainly for my photoblog, Unpopped, which was originally supposed to be a low-maintenance way to explore new topics and subjects but has lately either sucked up inordinate amounts of time in precise image treatments or ground to a halt due to an absent workforce.