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red bricks
October 25th, 2005Tags: blue, bricks, building, leeds, red, sky, windows -
things I’ve lost
October 11th, 2005Tags: list, lost, StuffI’ve lost many things in my life. Some were valuable and some were not. Some I cannot remember, though you might count these as lost memories. Some I’ve listed here:
- My innocence (ahem)
- A pack of marked playing cards
- A superman kite
- A scientific calculator and some parker pens
- A mountain bike
- My faith (though this really just counts as my ignorance)
- A hamster and a mouse
- A lot of bank debit cards
- Some music CDs
- A signed copy of Bruce Schneier’s book, Secrets and Lies
And most recently, a 62mm circular polarized lens filter.
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New version of The Gimp
October 7th, 2005Tags: gimp, graphics, image, photos, photoshop, thegimpThere is a new version of the The Gimp (GNU Image Manipulation Program) on the horizon. Version 2.4, due to be released this month, has lots of cool new stuff:
- Foreground selection tool, to help cutting people out of photos and placing them with Ghandi and/or Hitler.
- New interpolation method called Lanczos. The best they’ve had until now was Cubic, which apprently sucks (this will please King Andy)
- Reorganisation of buttons, labels and dialogs in accordance with the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines, to make things easier for us humans to use.
- Colour management! At last! It now supports ICC profiles, though you can’t do much advanced stuff, like converting between profiles. Early days.
- All filters now support previews
- Lots of little bug fixes and other improvements
See the Changelog for more geeky details. And some screen-shots.
John Leach is a human being living in Leeds, UK.