Ian's blog

Ok, I want you honest opinion, which photo scan looks better? WARNING large files > 1 meg

test1
or test2

These are original the original files direct from the CDs.

I watched Tyco come into the Inner Harbor in Baltimore while eating lunch on Thursday. Tyco is one of 8 boats in the Volvo ocean race. While out walking last night I saw Tyco, SEB and Amer out of the water while there team do repairs for the next stage to La Rochelle, France. I wandered out with my camera tonight to take some photos.

I am ill, I have been coughing for the last 3 days. I think I will work from home on Monday.

Ok so this is the question on my visa application that is causing me the most problems so far I have

Jamaica(99,00)
Grand Cayman(99,00)
Mexico(99,00)
Puerto Rico(98,01)
Aruba (98)
Curacao (98)
St Maartin (98,01)
St Thomas (98,01)
France (97)
Germany (97)
Belgium (97)
Czech Republic (97)
Canada (01,99,98)
Netherlands (99,00)
Ireland (96)

I got an email today. “There is a package for you in the kitchen”. I wandered over to the kitchen and looked around. Nope nothing here. Then thought maybe on the 5th floor. Score. I got an Aero Easter Egg

2 flakes

A Jar of Branston Pickle

McVities Milk Chocolate Digestives

Mmmmmmm

I was browsing through ebay and found a Cray T2d. One like this was the pride and joy of Edinburgh Uni when I first joined. Then again I also had a disk quota of 1 meg and was excited about getting 2

Looks like I went to see the shuttle launch just in time. The BBC is reporting that nasa will not announce the shuttle launch until 24 hours before take off.

Geek Stuff
I have an idea. I have been thinking about an mp3 server for the living room, but to build a box from scratch is too expensive. I have been playing with an old toshiba that is tiny. Its only a P133, but linux installs and sound works and it plays MP3’s. So I could drop a network card in it and then control it via a website on another computer. I would have been really cool if I could drop a video encoder card in it and sever real video streams from the box but the latop might be a cheap way of doing it. The Laptops are going for about $100 on Ebay

Did anyone else get junk mail about a live journal user cutes? Just curious. It came to an off email address, not one that I really use now so not sure how anyone would have made the connection.