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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
The Google-AU blog reports that Google is going to be holding another one of it’s brain busting adventures soon. The post is ended with the following text/clue:
Arrrrrrrr you ready? Onward to the first puzzle, matey! And good luck!
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Soon :). 1210550400
Warning: links below contain spoilers.
Shouldn’t take long to figure out. The 10 digits of the final number is a dead giveaway that it’s a unix timestamp, and maps to a particular time. That’s soon.
The seemingly random string is a base64 encoding of a particular website.
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
I’d just like to wish everyone a hearty and happy star wars day.
May the fourth be with you!
Icon credit: everaldo
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Exciting news! I’ve spotted a Google streetview car in Sydney! Hopefully this means that Google Maps Sydney will soon get a street view so that we can play fun privacy invasion games.
It’s a little hard to tell thanks to the crappy camera on my mobile phone, but with some squinting you can see the camera mounted on a 1.5-ish metre support bracket on the hood of the car. You can also see the Google decal on the side, providing awesome aerodynamic characteristics to the car.
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Some of you may already be familiar with the find-a-thing puzzles which I have posted on music and movie subjects. Here comes another in the sequence: a historical famous people search quiz.
Best of luck for this one.
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
I’ve had the pleasure of owning a Nikon d80 for the last two months and have only recently started playing around with the advanced image post-processing techniques like HDR which have interested me for so long. Unsurprisingly, HDR (High Dynamic Range) imaging is appealing to so many people because it can make images look larger than life and surreal with the colours and contrast which are shown.
Now that daylight savings has kicked in I can get home from work during daylight hours. A recently southerly picked up the surf swell and I got some excellent photos of a well known big wave surfer and Bra Boy, Richie Vaculik surfing a normally rather insignificant break at Lurline Bay.
Qtpfsgui is one of the finer HDR/tone-mapping pieces of software available for Linux, despite the abhorrent name choice. With a bit of tweaking I managed to get a few nice images out of my raw images. I’m looking forward to improved HDR support for KDE in Krita.
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