The City of St. John’s has announced that the annual Pride Parade is to be limited to the sidewalks on Water St. due to heavy construction on Harbour Dr.
The Pride Parade is scheduled to take place 1:00pm this Sunday starting from St. John’s City Hall. The parade is set to loop around the downtown area and finish at the Scotia Centre.
From Signal Blog: Have parade, need road
Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland trailer has been leaked to the internet and it looks fantastic.
Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky, a Russian photographer, never lived past the end of the second World War, but his legacy certainly did. Seen below are photos taken from 1909 on using a technique that he created and patented.
That’s right, this photo was taken in colour in 1909. Although colour photography did not become mainstream until the decade after the second World War they were possible as early as 1861.
Prokudin-Gorsky would take three monochrome photos of the same shot, apply three separate colour filters and combine the photos into one full colour photograph. If the photo changed in perspective at all the image would appear to be “ghosted.”
Here are a few more of his photos.
[Above] This is a self portrait of Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky.
Amateur astronomoger Anthony Wesley spotted a “dark spot” near the south pole of Jupiter recently. NASA has confirmed that the the spot is a hole that is the size of Earth and is the result of an impact of some sort, likely a comet.
Wesley admitted that he almost missed the discovery as he was about to pack up his gear and go in to watch a game of Golf and Cricket.
Last week my friend @SheenaGoodyear posted a tweet on Twitter that I couldn’t have agreed with more. It’s a little untimely for me to finally post about it, but I’m out of post ideas today despite having taken a vacay from this site.
Sheena wrote:
Oddly, I’m meh on the “endearing” geek habits (http://tinyurl.com/n976uu) but find the “annoying” ones endearing. http://tinyurl.com/mv6jvs
Sorry I haven’t blogged much in the past week. What with guest-blogging with Signal Blog and being coaught in bed with a fever for three days I haven’t had much chance for writing for GregPike.ca.
Let’s see if we can’t change that this week.
Secunia has announced a major security concern for the latest Firefox, version 3.5, and possibly even earlier versions.
Due to a vunerability hackers can run arbitrary code on your machine through your browser.
Mozilla will likely have an update for this very soon, so stay connected and update as soon as possible.
In the meantime there is a temporary fix from Mashable to prevent any hacks.
Until Mozilla addresses this vulnerability, here is a temporary fix: Type “about:config” in Firefox’s address bar, and set “javascript.options.jit.content” to “false.”
From Mashable: Highly Critical Security Vulnerability Found in Firefox 3.5
It’s finally happening. The Internet can move forward at last.
YouTube has announced that it will no longer support IE6. IE6 is the default web browser on Windows XP and for years has been the most popular web browser. Unfortunately its popularly was never reflective of its functionality, security, or its ability to compile web pages in a sensible manner.
IE6 poses incredible headaches for web developers such as myself. Many hours can be wasted on a project attempting to get even the most trivial styles to appear any bit sensible in this arcaic browser.
YouTube dropping support for IE6 will blimp the world into following suit. The new Mile Zero website that I am developing with Sparling already encouages IE6 users to upgrade before viewing the website.
This announcement calls for a celebration.
Dave Carroll has stepped into the ranks of a very special collection of people who are GregPike.ca Heroes.
In the spring of 2008 he was traveling via United Airlines and his guitar was broke in transit. After a year of bickering with United’s customer service representatives (and getting no where) he decided to write a catchy tune describing his misfortune with the world.
After producing the video and becoming famous for it, United finally offered to pay for his guitar (and get rid of all the bad publicity swelling around this video), but it was too late. He wasn’t interested in being bought. Taylor Guitars on the other hand sent Dave some free merchandise and posted online about how to take care of you guitar while you travel.
Now Dave is working on a followup song about United. This should be good.