Archives: March, 2006

Photos from yesterday’s gig at the rugby club in Aberystwyth

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

I’m always happy to be able to combine two of my interests, photography and music. Last night I had that opportunity at the rugby club in Aberystwyth where there was a gig with 5 bands playing and I managed to get photos of the last four. Who were (in order of appearance)…

I don’t know the name of the first guy, but I believe he is from The Fenks. The was also a light show put on by Marco Matosic (I don’t know if he has a web address, leave a comment if you know) the lighting made for some interesting effects in some photographs and made some pretty bad as the light level changed rapidly and unexpectedly meaning that the auto focusing didn’t really work and the exposure was quite hit and miss, of the 168 photos I have put only 9 online. I’m hoping with a little work in The Gimp a few more will be ok.

Gig photo gallery

We missed our emissions targets, over to you technology.

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

Tony Blair took some time off from yachting in New Zealand to say that what the world needs is a “technological revolution similar to the internet” in order to slow global warming.

What I suspect Mr. Blair doesn’t know is that the internet didn’t just pop up overnight. The first TCP/IP network (arguably the start of the internet as we know it) was born in 1983 but this was building on technology that had been developing since the 70s which in turn had been born out of the US DoD’s DARPA which was started in 1958. So if he means similar in timescale I don’t think it’ll help with hitting the emissions targets for 2010.

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