Ok, this might seem like too much narcisism, but I’ve just found out that my “Vim for Perl Developers” paper comes out as the first match for “vim and perl” search. Apparently, a lot of people were coming to this site because of this. Heh.
Year: 2004
Image tips made it to FedoraForum.org
I’ve rearranged few of my tips on image processing and posted it on FedoraForum.org, where they got frontpaged. Feels good. :) Here is a link to the forum post. I’ve also resubmitted them later as an article, as suggested by one of the administrators, so I hope they’ll stay there for a long time. :)
Cold Mountain
Yesterday we went to see “Cold Mountain“. Both Olga and I are very impressed. Still. :)
There are not that many films that make you think how wars really suck. Sure there is usually a lot of shooting and shouting, but the atmosphere is totally wrong. “Cold Mountaint” doesn’t have lots of shooting and shouting. But it makes you hope that you never see a real war. No matter how far people are from the battlefields – they still suffer, they still change.
The film is excellent as a whole. Soundtrack is great. Plot is great. Acting is great. And it doesn’t come as a surprise. Most of the people who worked on the film, are very well known. Producer – Anthony Minghella, the same guy who produced “English Patient” and “Talented Mr. Ripley“. Main roles were played by Jude Law (“Enemy at the Gates“), Nicole Kidman (“Moulin Rouge!“), Ren�e Zellweger (“Me, Myself & Irene“).
This film is not something that I want to have on DVD, but it’s a definite must see.
Red Hat corrections
Someone kindly pointed out to me that there is no consistency what-so-ever in my blog entries regarding Red Hat. Based on some random factor I can call it “Red Hat”, “RedHat”, “Redhat”, “redhat”, or even “red hat”. This might be taken as disrespect to the company, therefor I took some time and corrected all occurances to be in the correct form – “Red Hat”. I will also try to stick to the correct form in the future.
Catching up on photography and image composition
Spent some time reading about photography and image composition theory. Each and every site I’ve been at mentions the “Rule of Thirds“. I am getting tired of it already. :) There were, though, few other interesting things to read. Essay on Image Composition gave me few ideas, as did this page. There are few tips at Wild Things Photography, but nothing in-depth. Same thingshere, but in different words.
I’ve also came across an Apogee Photo Magazine which has a somewhat extensive collection of articles and columns on the subject of photography in general and composition in particular. Particularly interesting I’ve found articles by Michael Fulks (“Gestalt Theory and Photographic Composition“, “Composition… A Primer on Positive and Negative space.” parts 1 and 2, and “Does your left brain know what your right brain is doing?“). “First class photography” series by Willis T. Bird are also useful. It’s not that trivial to navigate through the site and archives and there is no sensible search facilities, so I’ll add links here for the future reference. Lessons: 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 4, 3, 2.
And just to wrap it all up, here are a couple of sites about color theory.