David Allen Wizardgold's posts

talking about photography and how to use three of my favourite plug-ins to the altar and affect my photographs. One of them I used to make HDR photos, another one is for removing items from photos like magic and the other one gives a variety of effects from subtle to the nearly HDR.

I sold a Bitcoin so I would have the cash to buy a NEX6 camera and I am thinking I might sell the old one for Bitcoin. I made a pile of money with the crypto currency appreciating in value since I bought them. I am definitely encouraged to hold on to what I have now for the longer term.

Also I started to mine some LiteCoin on my Mac. I don't think it is going to be successful but it did kind of work. There is a site which is giving LiteCoin away. You have to play a game which gives you a certain amount depending on how the numbers fall. I won 2 micro LiteCoin most times but I won 50 micro lite coin on one roll. Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

dog walking David goes for a spin around the neighbourhood late at night and takes the camera with him. Yes that's right, I just myself a new camera a Sony NEX-6 and of course I have to have a little bit of a chat about it. It is a marvellous camera and I was even able to take a few pictures at night-time. This was mainly due to the fact that the moonlight was giving me sufficient light to work with. During the day I had been in the harbour of the nearest seaside town and taking some lovely pictures of boats in the harbour and the seafront.

Weird alternative energy politics in Spain

my wife had told me recently that the Spanish government were going to discourage people from putting solar panels on the roof and initially my thought was that she must be crazy. How on earth would a government have the cheek and stupidity to tell people that you can't put solar panels on your roof when the European community once more alternative energy generated. Is obviously important that we generate more free energy so that we cut our reliance upon the fossil fuels and also nuclear so why would the Spanish government want to stop people from putting up photovoltaic cells.

It seems that there is a huge debts within the Spanish electricity generation business it was either 26 million or 26 billion, whichever one it was it was a lot of money. The people that run the electricity companies and their cronies within the right-wing government wants the people of Spain the electricity customers to pay more money to cover this debt. They really don't want people to generate free electricity and so to have smaller bills and maybe even get paid for generating electricity. It seems to be that there is a change happening where these electric companies have to think in terms of being a distribution centre for electricity, however it is generated. I would like to see the generation of electricity at a micro scale fully supported and encouraged. That would seem to be the best long-term policy for the Earth and its inhabitants in my humble opinion.

I did see some articles about this Spanish electricity problem and it seems that my wife isn't crazy. It is true what she said and it makes her angry that the government should be doing this. She says that this level of debt probably isn't true and bases this upon the fact that the bosses and shareholders of these electricity companies pay themselves huge bonuses every year. I reckon my wife is probably right there. I mean how could they be paying themselves so much money when there is a huge debt that is required to be paid?

I spent over a day putting the custom ROM onto my phone. It didn't seem that there was going to be any way that the operating system was going to be updated by the phone carrier. As I was doing it it was a little bit hit and miss even though I was using something that was supposed to make it easier. I used an application called ROM Manager and it was supposed to boot me into the Clockworkmod recovery mode, but it kept going into the ordinary recovery mode. Not quite sure how I managed to get the job done in the end, but I did. Now that I have done it once I will be able to do it again and get closer to the latest version of Android.

I did the custom ROM on the phone so that I could get rid of the carrier installed junk and also the Samsung bloatware.

I recorded this using Audio Evolution Mobile and converted it to MP3 using Media Converter so that I could send it as an email to Audioboo. This worked really well and so much better than the official Audioboo rubbish software for Android.

DayOne is a Mac and iOS app and I don't want to have my stuff in two separate places because I use Android and iOS. SO I have worked out a way to get posts into Day One from my Android devices using Draft app, Dropbox syncing, then some Keyboard Maestro magic to automagically get the text into DayOne.

It works a treat because Keyboard Maestro is the dos doo dahs when it comes to Mac automation.

I had been meaning to buy myself a new airbrush for some time and I saw that there was a place that was having an offer on an air brush of the type that I wanted. So I am now looking forward to using this art tool to create some artwork with acrylic paints on in a canvas or board. I also saw an offer for a stylus that I can use with the iPad it is the Wacom brand and style of stylus that gives pressure sensitivity which makes it much better for drawing lines. the pressure sensitivity gives you a lot more finesse and control over or your drawing, the same sort of quality that you could achieve using the welcome tablets.

I often feel that art chose me rather than the other way round. When you're a creative sort of person then it is only inevitable that you create art of whatever sort. I have gone from creating fine art, paintings and printing to photography and video are now once again I have the urge to splash some paint around.

Losing a chunk of the day due to getting up late and having no time to do much before heading to work.

Watching Ringer on the TV with Sarah Michelle Gellar - lots of plot machinations. It keeps twisting this way and that. I want to see the hero of the story succeed so the story can't be too bad.