Glasgow Science Centre

silver-tessellation, originally uploaded by glenelg.net.

Yes, really. This is Glasgow Science Centre with the help of a bit of flipping and copying on the PC.

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Young and Old

Young and Old, originally uploaded by glenelg.net.

Vintage cars lined up at the National Tramway Museum spark the curiosity of a young visitor.

In cell barcharts in Excel (and Google) Spreadsheets

Lightweight data exploration in Excel - Juice Analytics

Juice Analytics have this great little tip that's been doing the rounds of the productivity blogs today. Using the REPT function in Excel, you can create basic, in cell bar graphs.

For instance, REPT(”X”,10) gives you “XXXXXXXXXX”.

For in-cell bar charts, the trick is to repeat a single bar “|”. When formatted in 8 point Arial font, single bars look like bar graphs.

The good news is that this technique works just fine in Google Spreadsheets as well.

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Always happy to help...

Always happy to help..., originally uploaded by glenelg.net.

Evening rush hour at the local supermarket.

Just popped in for some milk...

Just popped in for some milk..., originally uploaded by glenelg.net.

You see the strangest things in the supermarket carpark.

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Blogger added to Google accounts login?

Tony Ruscoe has spotted that there is now a Google account login page for blogger. This could mean that, finally, blogger will stop being the poor relation to Google's other services and get some much needed attention.

Today I realised that the NewAccount and CreateAccount pages – which always seem to be identical – no longer generate the usual “The page you requested is invalid.” error when appending the word blogger to the service parameter.

I'm looking forward to some changes around here and a nice slick Ajax interface. Please Google...

11th Aug 2006, update: Tony has found some more Google/Blogger pages, see here for more details.

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Google Maps flight sim fun.

Goggles- the Google maps flight sim.

This is fun stuff. Thanks to GoogleBlogoscoped for the link. Choose a city and get flying, but, don't fly too low...

Holiday on the Bund

Holiday on the Bund, originally uploaded by glenelg.net.

The site re-design is complete. Everything seems to be working (in IE as well as Firefox and Flock) so time to revisit the archives and top the page with a photo.

It was only last week when I was adding the drop-down/pop-up menus that I spotted that my previous blogger template wasn't displaying correctly in IE. I'd assumed that all their templates would be cross platform, however, for many of their offerings, sidebars don't appear correctly.

I found one that worked in IE and Firefox and modified it extensively to give the page you see here. In the end I removed the sidebar anyway. So it goes.

Camera Age / Technology Age : The Online Photographer.

The Online Photographer: Camera Age / Technology Age

Paul Butzi posted this thought provoking article on The Online Photographer last week. In summary, he was pointing out that with every new film technology your old camera gets a new lease of life (but he says it better than me).

So don’t tell me how old your camera is. Tell me when the manufacturer last revised the film you use. Because if you’re loading your Leica CL with Fujichrome 64T, your technology chain is newer than my digital Canon EOS-5d by about five months.

I posted a comment on the article, pointing out that in the digital world, the same argument could be applied to the latest RAW converter software. I was pleased to see that Paul agreed as he published my comment in the article as a "Featured Comment". Read the full article here.