If you've read my recent post bloody computers you'll know the problems I had with my DVD drive, well it's not over till the fat lady sings they say.... And obviously she's got bloody laryngitis cos it ain't over yet!
Yes the second drive does work... But it's bloody choosy what disks it'll write too, I've bought several lots of disk and the beggar will only write to one type.
Friday, May 31, 2013
The lonely wellies
Some poor children must have taken these off to get in the car and forgotten them.
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Topaz Clarity
What is does is add a clarity similar the the clarity options in Lightroom or photoshops camera raw, but it offers much more control. The contrast range is devided up into 4 sections, micro, medium, low and high, and different amounts of clarity can be added to each as required. It also has a masking palette, making selections by contrast range selective as well (take note adobe) They have even added a hue/saturation palette with the masking palette options. The masking palette has options to brush on the effect and select by colour range, giving you a fair range of selective options for applying the clarity/hue sat effects.
At time of writing it's on special offer around the $30, if your a Topaz fan it's worth getting.
Star Trek into the darkness. (film review)
After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror
from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a
war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction.
The second instalment of the Star Trek prequel.
From the word go the films action packed, with great visual effects. The action centers around an old/new enemy with lots of twists and turns, some you'll see coming, some you probably won't.
The cast are much more comfortable in their roles this time out, Chris Pine looks and acts more like the old Kirk we love, he's getting the mannerisms off much better, so much so I pretty much forgot it wasn't William Shatner playing the part. Karl Urban is still superb as Bones, and it's nice to see more of Scotty played by Simon Pegg in this film.
Sadly for me my enjoyment of the film was spoiled by three things, none of which was a fault of the film itself. The movie theatre I went to was terribly cramped, so much so I had to get up and go for a walk during the film to stretch my legs, secondly I was very very tired (I actually wanted to go another night but couldn't) and lastly for some reason the movie theatre had the volume on full all evening, my head was ringing when I came out, won't be going back there again.
Waynes rating 8/10 Well worth a watch on the big screen.
The second instalment of the Star Trek prequel.
From the word go the films action packed, with great visual effects. The action centers around an old/new enemy with lots of twists and turns, some you'll see coming, some you probably won't.
The cast are much more comfortable in their roles this time out, Chris Pine looks and acts more like the old Kirk we love, he's getting the mannerisms off much better, so much so I pretty much forgot it wasn't William Shatner playing the part. Karl Urban is still superb as Bones, and it's nice to see more of Scotty played by Simon Pegg in this film.
Sadly for me my enjoyment of the film was spoiled by three things, none of which was a fault of the film itself. The movie theatre I went to was terribly cramped, so much so I had to get up and go for a walk during the film to stretch my legs, secondly I was very very tired (I actually wanted to go another night but couldn't) and lastly for some reason the movie theatre had the volume on full all evening, my head was ringing when I came out, won't be going back there again.
Waynes rating 8/10 Well worth a watch on the big screen.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Dog owners! Whats wrong with some of them?
Twice in the last week I've had moronic dog owners walk across the road in front of my car. The worse part is these idiots had their dogs 30 foot behind them on those extending thin string leads. The first one I saw in plenty of time, the second one (today) I bloody nearly ran over the dog. I simply couldn't see the thin black lead and the dog came out from behind a parked car, the owner wasn't paying any attention to the dog and had his back to it.
To be honest these leads should be banned from the streets, I saw an elderly lady tripped over by one a while back in a busy shopping centre, again the dog was one side of the path and the owner the other, the thin lead all but invisible again, they've nearly had me a few times, I've spotted the leads in time.
They should be either a tape type that can be seen easily or made a bright colour, and theres no place for these anywhere near a public place. lets face it a dog 30 feet away isn't under proper control.
To be honest these leads should be banned from the streets, I saw an elderly lady tripped over by one a while back in a busy shopping centre, again the dog was one side of the path and the owner the other, the thin lead all but invisible again, they've nearly had me a few times, I've spotted the leads in time.
They should be either a tape type that can be seen easily or made a bright colour, and theres no place for these anywhere near a public place. lets face it a dog 30 feet away isn't under proper control.
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