Daily Archive for June 12th, 2006

Students think mainframes are cool

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by
Anton
on June 12, 2006
in My Job and Technology
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According to The Register, Students think mainframes are cool

Bit of a shock, though I do wish I could have had the chance to play with them at uni… I am struggling to find time to learn much about them during work so it will probably be a slow road to actually using them.

New lens

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Anton
on June 12, 2006
in Photography
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The week before last I bought a 75-300mm lens for my camera on ebay. So last weekend I took it to Battersea Park to try it out. I took a few too many photos. One or two of the photos are cropped, but they should be obvious. The rest are what I got with up to 300mm zoom.

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The lens is wonderful, though with a polariser (which came free on it) you need plenty of sunlight to get a high enough shutter speed to hold it by hand. I would love a stabilising lens, but they are expensive

Too much time on your hands?

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Anton
on June 12, 2006
in Gaming
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If I have ever seen a case of too much time on your hands, this would be it: Quake Done Quick and Quake II Done Quick [Google Video]

They are actually very, very impressive but I cannot help but wonder if they were actually done by a person, or if they were scripted as the rocket and grenade jumps are so perfectly timed.