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Roll Over!

deadlock — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:33:54 +0000

[See post to watch Flash video]
Music by Blur. Please don’t sue me.

Hi-res Quicktime version.

Finn at Seven Months

deadlock — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:26:50 +0000

It’s been absolutely ages since I posted anything so here’s a nice, recent pic of Finn. He was 7 months last Friday and is coming on strong. As you can see, he’s sitting up (I was trying to steady him on the bed, which is why my hand is just visible) and his two lower front teeth have finally come through.

No sign of any crawling yet, but he is able to spin 360 degrees on his tummy when you put him on the floor so it’s only a matter of time.

Working 9 to 5

deadlock — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:10:32 +0000

This working from home lark is going to be a nightmare if Finn keeps hogging my PC.

Gordon & Sarah, August 2008

deadlock — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:23:45 +0000

On Wednesday, August 20th 2008, Gordon & Sarah finally tied the knot in a beautiful villa outside the picturesque Tuscan village of Montepulciano.

More pics in my Flickr set (with more to be uploaded!) - LINK!

His Old Self

deadlock — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:34:41 +0000

Getting there, getting there. Can’t wait until all three of us are back home though…

Chucklevision

deadlock — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:41:47 +0000

Video

Cower! As the human child laughs demonically!
Gasp! In horror as he tries to eat Winnie the Pooh!
Dote! At how cute he is

Conan’s Christening

deadlock — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:31:13 +0000

Conan’s christening, July 19th 2008. More pics in the Flickr set!

Finn’s Christening

deadlock — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:01:54 +0000

Saturday 21st of June was another milestone - actually, an event moreso than a milestone - in Finn’s life. We had him Christened.

It was a wonderful day and Finn, as always, was a dote.

Everyone had a great day and for that all of the credit has to go to Áine, who did trojan work organising the day and feeding everyone at the reception. Thanks a million also to everyone who came to help celebrate this, the most important day in Finn’s christian life.

More photos are available on Flickr.

Firefox 3. Again.

deadlock — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:09:33 +0000

This is funny in a nerdy way: type about:robots into your address bar.

Firefox 3 and Color Profiles Revisited

deadlock — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:02:45 +0000

You might remember that in a previous post I complained about the way Firefox (and Internet Explorer) handle embedded colour profiles in images. Well, with the release of version 3 of the browser, the problem may very well have been fixed in Firefox.

There’s a hidden setting in Firefox 3 that lets you configure it to use colour managment. To access the feature, you need to type about:config into your address bar, agree to be careful and then type “gfx.color_management” into the filter textbox at the top of the page. Double-click the gfx.color_management.enabled setting to change it to true and then restart Firefox. Voilá - colour management has been enabled in Firefox 3 and your wonderful, vibrant photographs won’t look dull and listless any more.

But now the bad news: some people are reporting that when you enable colour management in Firefox 3, it internally converts all colour profiles to sRGB. This means that if you visit a site that has, say, borders comprised of PNG images and those PNG images have an embedded colour profile, Firefox will attempt to convert the profile to sRGB and the site may wind up looking a little off-colour, as it were. It may also interfer with CSS colour codes and so on as well. I personally haven’t come across anything like this but your milage may vary, as they say. This is also why the setting is disabled by default.

The latest version of Firefox can be downloaded here and is well worth it. I’ve been using it since the first beta and have found it to be very stable, faster than Firefox 2 and less troublesome in respect of memory utilisation. And, of course, it’s extremely customisable.