Build my own website
I've recently upgraded my website building system: la-plume Micro CMS. It's free. You can use it to build your own website without any IT skills or technical knowledge. All you need is a domain name, some web space, and off you go.
Kenneth Taylor (of Bolton) 1918-2011
Thomas Kenneth Taylor, my father, died aged 93 on June 7th, 2011. Kenneth survived his wife Françoise by four years and a few months. Françoise Taylor died aged 87 on January 24th, 2007.
Disable ClearType in IE9
Apparently it can't be done. There's no option to disable ClearType fonts in Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 (IE9). This seems a strange decision by Microsoft. It should be possible to enable pixel fonts in their browser just as it is in Windows 7. IE9 is very fast though.
Telephoto Perspective Compression
I doubt if there is really such a thing as telephoto perspective compression, also referred to by camera users and photography enthusiasts as perspective distortion or flattening, despite these terms being in common usage. What they are talking about is the way telephoto lenses or binoculars appear to foreshorten the view, making distant objects appear to bunch up against nearer ones. It's only an optical illusion.
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- ... the diggers were drinking their gold away. Intoxicated miners with pockets bulging with gold dust lurched from bar to bar, festooning girls with jewellery and lighting their pipes with £5 notes...
australian gold rush » - ... shrapnel hitting craft so we jumped for it at 0800hrs. Cairns hit in leg. Woods hit in eye. Got on to coast road where things were unpleasant owing to mortars and shells flying around...
kenneth taylor war diary » - ... no other design of camera has achieved such a classic look with its exquisitely composed straights and curves and the elegant counterbalance of dark textured surfaces with bright shining edges...
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