Photographic Event-a-licious

Over the past few weeks I’ve been out and about, camera in hand, photographing sports events that have been held in and around Wellington. For now the photos are up on my Flickr page – just use the links below …     As I increase the collection of images that I think are worthy of sharing I’ll be posting updates all over the web (haha). Be sure to follow me on twitter,...

Jack Bauer takes victory in well under 24 hours

Yes, I’m a 24 fan. Today was awful … well, awful in the sense that it was windy, raining, comparatively cold and not the best conditions for cycling. However, stage 5 of the Trust House Cycle Classic was scheduled for January 31st 2010 around the streets of Wellington and it almost went ahead as planned. The original schedule was to be a 60 minute race around a closed criterium circuit + a 3 lap...

Playing with HDR Photography

It’s been a while since I put anything on this site that isn’t of a technical nature so I thought I’d throw something photography-related up here. Today’s non-technical article is about HDR photography, i.e. the practice of combining multiple exposures to create a single high dynamic range or HDR image. Here’s what I came up with....

Digital Formula Downloads

Recently I added a new page to Digital Formula simply called ‘Downloads‘. The name should be self-explanatory; it’s a page I’m going to use as a single location for all files/source code/applications that I think are worth downloading. All new downloads will be put there and I will be slowly going through older downloads and files so that their content can be added to the Downloads page, if...

Russian forum comment spam from 89.185.88.241 and 89.185.88.237

I checked my site’s spam queue today and found that I suddenly had 10 comments that were identified as spam by the Wordpress plugin Akismet (this sites uses the Wordpress blogging engine, the best blogging engine available in my opinion). Here are the details of the comments …...