Archive for the 'Just for fun' Category

All change: Avatars, Wavatars, Gravatars.

Posted by on February 4th 2008 in Just for fun, Plugins, Site update

Another nice new plugin, Wavatars (by Shamus Young) shows a Gravatar-style face next to your name when you leave a comment. Of course, if you've set up a proper Gravatar, that will be displayed by default.

Wavatars can generate 956,384 different shapes in 57,600 different color combinations for a total of 55,087,718,400 (55 billion) unique Wavatars. Here are a few examples:

See them in action here.

Sorry but you don't get to choose, that's all sorted by the plugin.

:mrgreen:

Lunacy

Posted by on January 22nd 2008 in Astrostuff, Just for fun, Pics
Took a few shots with the D50 + 70-300 lens tonight, the skies were wild with fast-moving broken low cloud, impressively backlit by the full moon, which looks flat without shadows. First one: handheld stuff only, couldn't be bothered to race upstairs for the tripod. Full manual settings (300mm, f/5.6, 1/1250s, ISO 200), minimal tinkering with PS CS3.  

  Second one: mounted on the Velbon. Full manual settings (300mm, f/5.6, 1/1600s, ISO 200), minimal tinkering with PS CS3.  

  I'll take a few more next week, hopefully we'll see more depth and contrast as the shadows lengthen.

Wherezat?

Posted by on January 10th 2008 in Just for fun

 

or possibly

 

Fractal

Posted by on January 10th 2008 in Just for fun
 

 

Comments plotted

Posted by on December 18th 2007 in Just for fun, Projects, Rambling on...

Just for the hell of it, I decided to follow up on my idle threat to delve deeper into the comments to see what I could find.

Here are a few graphs, deduce from them whatever you want.

The total number of comments was 183, left by 37 readers.

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Scotland 20, Rest of the World 5

Posted by on December 9th 2007 in Just for fun, Rambling on..., Thanks
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I'm not much of a stats-whore, but I do like to use such data to see if there are any trends and/or patterns hiding in the figures. Here is the latest curiosity: Of the 25 most recent comments left by visitors to this blog, 20 have been left by Scots. Further analysis reveals that all of the most recent ten comments left by visitors to this blog have been left by Scots. Now, for every statistical oddity there's usually a rational explanation, so they say. The trouble is, I'm having a hard job finding the correct reason for such a statistical pattern. So far, I've come up with the following possibilities:
  1. Scots have far too much free time on their hands, and they spend too much of it on the internet;
  2. Scots are more sociable than other folk, hence they are better at inter-personal communication;
  3. Scots are highly opinionated and talk too much;
  4. I write good stuff that only Scots appreciate, stuff that's just goes over the heads of other folk;
  5. I write drivel that's ignored by all except Scots, who find it to their taste;
  6. I live in the wrong country.
Looking at the comment-stats in a more local geo-frame, here's the score on a UK basis:
  • Scotland 20
  • England 5
  • Rest of the UK 0
Please feel free to comment on these stats, regardless of your nationality. Maybe you could suggest other reasons? Anyway, thanks to all who have already left their mark here. I'm off to delve a bit deeper, to see if the trend goes further back.
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