Mar 2008 31 st
Free Tibet, China and the Olymics and all that
Before I go on, I am not normally political, but recently I am just getting fed up with lots of things, maybe its my age catching up on me. I have just being watching John O’Shea on TV3 talk about Tibet and the Olympics. Now I don’t have much time for John O’Shea (for no reason only from I find charities annoying and pushy at times) but he did mention two interesting things.
- The smaller countries like Ireland (Who’s government is ohh so found of telling its citizens how “well respected” it is on the world stage) should take a stance at at least threaten to boycott the games (We won’t miss much anyhow, we rarely win anything)
- Don’t watch them
The second is a really nice passive way of resistance.
Now considering that this post will now be filtered out by the Great firewall of China, I hope that the rest of this post will go unoticed by the Chinese authorities and we’ll all catch them by surprise.
Proposal
I propose that any blogger who feels strongly enough, make a simple post on the 30th of April 2008 with the title of “Why I think Tibet Should Be Free”/”Please Free Tibet” or something with Free and Tibet in the title. If you think independence is not needed you can also post something similar. You can include as little or as much in the post body as you want to.
If you use Wordpress, you can even do it now, and select the publish date as the 30th April and forget all about it. I already have.
Sure its not as strong as storming the Chinese embassy, but its just another way we can all let the Chinese government (I doubt that they need reminding) that people in the world object to whats going on (BTW while I’m at it, China you should be ashamed of your conduct in relation toDarfur). As a side benifit, if enough blogs do this, it should send the Great Firewall into some serious filtering time.
Update: 00:04 01.04.08 - If you don’t feel like doing a blog post, on the 30th you can do simple things like set the status message of your IM client to read “Free Tibet” or similar. You can also do this with Facebook.
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Finally, most Cuban photos uploaded.
After what seems like ages, I finally got around to uploading the rest of my Cuban photos to Flickr, feel free to visit and comment.
I will hopefully get around to completing the titles and brief info sections later this evening. FInd below quick links to my favorite ones.
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Wordpress 2.5 Upgrade
Ok, so WP 2.5 is out and I have to say the upgrade was a breeze thus far. I will see how it affects my broken theme with this post. I have to say I love the new admin interface, its a lot cleaner with an easier interface although it may need a slight tweak with higher screen resolutions as it currently only fills about 60% of my screen when browser is maximized.
Well done to all involved, I am looking forward to 2.6 already, I think its the start of something wonderful.
Mar 2008 30 th
Man With Cock
Standing around outside our casa in Trinidad, friends pointed out this old gentleman walking up the street. I waited despite their cries for “take a photo”, till he had passed me. He looked as if he had a long, hard life, but was obviously quite happen with his bird in the hand.
Mar 2008 28 th
Cuba 2008
I recently had the pleasure of visiting Cuba. Of course I took my trusty Nikon with me, so over the next few days I will upload a few of the images that I captured. Starting off is this typical street scene of Habana
Mar 2008 6 th
Anti war protests - series 1
A collection of photos from the sit down protests outside Leinster House (Irish Parliament) 2002
Again sorry for the low quality, but these are scanned in ages ago.
Mar 2008 5 th
Using Adobe Lightroom with Flickr Uploader
My everyday laptop runs Ubuntu, however for photo editing, I still use and prefer Photoshop. Now since I’ve gone digital, I’ve gone out an bought Adobe Lightroom. I also use Flickr a lot, so I wanted to work flickr uploader into LightRoom. One trick Adobe missed was having a decent plugin system for Lightroom, hopefully they will reconsider this in subsequent releases, however I suspect they will want to run their own little Flickr clone at some stage.
Anyhow, to get flickr integrated into lightroom, simple do the following
- Download and install Flickr Uploader
- Copy the desktop shortcut created and paste it to c:\Documents And Settings\YOUR USERNAME\Application Data\Adobe\Lightroom\Export Actions
- Fireup Lightroom
- Select a photo, then select export
- At the bottom of the export window, in Post Processing, select Flickr Uploader
- Your done
Its making my life a lot easier already. Enjoy.
Mar 2008 5 th
Frenzy
A member of the Reclaim the Streets group delivers a statment after claims that gardai attaked them during a peaceful protest in May 2002 (AFAIR)
This photo is one of 10,000 from my archive that I am slowly scanning. Fuji Neopan 400. No idea about anything else now
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