dw: 10.2004

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flickr

i am in love with flickr. ive been using it now for a few months to put some pictures there. whenever a picture is uploaded, there is an option to put a tag to it. so for example i uploaded some pics from last nights fourtet concert with the "fourtet" tag (as many tags as you want can be used per picture). this allows pictures to be easily sorted through. (on the side of most pages there is a option to see the pics in a slideshow format too and clicking on the other link allows you to see all pictures by everybody on flickr that has the same tag). anyway, give it a go if you havent already (note: there is a free version and a pro version, here is some info about the difference)

the tags listed here are the most popular ones from me, the larger the word, the more pics i have uploaded.

2001 2002 2003 24hours art autumn bluesky concert contrails dublin eläintarhanlahti esplanadinvalot ferry finland graffiti helsinki hermitage iceland kallio kingsofconvenience lake lenininpuisto live me mikkeli morning museum nighttime norwegian nyc1999 oldcrapdigicam olympicstadium pasila port reykjavík rowing snow soccer stockmann stpetersburg summer sunny sunshine tikkurila tournament train walk window winter work

eboy tass

eboy mailing list time

dear friends,

after months of work we got a brand new fresh funky poster:

//superbroncobattle\\ http://eboy.com/shop/detail/superbroncobattle

and a superbroncobattle exhibition: our first london solo exhibition
from 29th october to 4th november at ecartspace, 187-211 st john
street, clerkenwell, london ec1. opening times: 11.00 am - 6.00 pm.
admission is free. presented by minuco.

cheers! -- eboy

goddam londoners get all the good stuff. damn them all. (i would kill for that poster)

shadows

merisatamaranta (seaharbourbeach) this morning just before 1000. such a beautiful morning. here are some more: [flickr link]

mirror

august in helsinki

mac and pc

everything ive done over the last few years has been on a pc. college, outside of college, work, outside of work. all pc. all windows, all the time. everyone around me used windows based pcs too.

my mum is a mac convert, having at least one for the last ten years or so. i only used them occasionaly for checking email and found them interesting but always very akward to find my way around. the one button mouse and the apple button confued me and led me to several silly mistakes.

now i am using macs in college, and i have grown to be incredibly impressed by them. i was always impressed by the astetics of them all, i am very shallow after all. but now i have grown more fond of the operating system and its little quirks that speed things up, allow things to be completed quicker and with less fuss. the hardest part is using the same programmes on two different platforms. archicad and photoshop on windows and mac computers. the windows programmes using the ctrl button a lot and the mac ones using the apple key a lot, they arent in the same position on the keyboards, so i spend lots of time pressing ctrl on the mac (for copy / paste etc.) but nothing happens, then i go home and continue a drawing and find myself pressing the alt button on the pc a lot. in time i will get better.

hullu

stockmann yesterday and this morning, hullut päivät (crazy days) offers. i am no longer under the illusion that finns are reserved. they went crazy when the doors opened, running up five stories to get into the queue for one sale, snatching queue tickets and getting into little fights.

that attitude is helping me get back into the mood for new york!!! holidays booked, nyc 23.02. - 06.03.05 jeooow. nyki taas! ~~espically looking forward to the fingerprinting and mugshot~~

news	Monday, October 11, 2004 \| link \|

google news doesnt have a localised news aggregator for ireland yet, but msn does (the main page is standard stuff, click on 'ireland' for the irish news sources).

leaves

autumn is here. one day blue skies and calmness, the next seven is rain and wind.

best of

yet again i am passed over by city lehti for kaupungin paras (cities best). here is the 2004 list.

holidays

currently planning holidays for next year. we have two options.

a: i go to ireland for 10-15 days for either christmas or february. päivi goes to london / paris around the same time.
b: going to guatemala via nyc for just over two weeks in mid february for a wedding.

b is the current favourite. i am desperate for some time back home, but the wedding is a once in a lifetime oppurtunity. a brochure that came today for stockmanns "hullut päivät" (crazy day sale) next week has a good offer on flights to new york. we'll see.

cad	Tuesday, October 05, 2004 \| link \|

back in college in dublin, we used autocad. we started of with version 12 i think, then 13, 14 and up to 2000. version 13 (if i remember correctly) was the first version to have a windows version aswell as the standard dos version. as far as we knew back then there was only one way to buy autocad, that was to spend a lot of money. something no one did. the college had proper versions, and we spent most of the time using the colleges computers from early in the morning to late in the evening. our first cad studio was a room where all the colleges students had access to, so we had limited access. as a consuquence most of the class did their drawings on using pen and paper. not the most efficent method.

anyway, version 13 was the first version we knew of that one could get illegally (the advent of cd burners and the internet made it more widespread). it was something that due to the then restrictive nature of the autocad licences that we had to do. our work load was such that the few hours that we could get access every day to computers just wasnt enough. 14 and beyond continued the trend. everyone now was doing all projects on computers. we all used autocad at home, virtually no one paid for it (except in one early incident to an unscrupulous classmate). we learnt illegally for our future careers. autocad just doesnt understand that student versions should be free.

a quick search on google showed that autocad 2005 student version is 200$ a year/380€lifetime from one vendor. also, i have vague memories of trying to buy autocad student version in dublin years ago, but facing a very very unhelpful seller there

i am now using archicad for my current course. there are two types of archicad. the commercial one and the educational one. the educational one is for students and universities. they share a file format that isnt compatible with the commercial version, and it has some other limitatations in exporting of files; but the programme itself works exactly the same as the commercial one. perfect for learning without the guilt. i just returned from the dealer here where i got the student version for 0€.

monitor

sigur rós did two concerts in paris last week and ive spent the last few hours putting together the review pages for the site. the site has a regular photographer who has taken pictures of maybe seven or so gigs now. anyway, she emailed me the first batch of pictures last week, i checked email when i was in college and i looked at them in there. we use macs in school, and maybe it was just that the monitor i have at home is very bad, but the images looked astounding on the mac. when i viewed it here at home it was a lot flatter and not as full of life. if that makes sense. anyway, the review page for the two gigs will be online tomorrow or something.

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