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ID test
June 26, 2009 by koltregaskes · Comments
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Testing the embed code from real-time FriendFeed
April 25, 2009 by koltregaskes · Comments
Old age begins at 27 as mental powers start to decline, scientists find – Telegraph
March 15, 2009 by koltregaskes · Comments
BBC NEWS | World | Africa | MDC to examine Tsvangirai crash
March 7, 2009 by koltregaskes · Comments
“Zimbabwe’s MDC party says it will carry out its own investigation into the cause of Friday’s crash in which Morgan Tsvangirai’s wife Susan died. But officials have said nothing to suggest they suspect foul play. US embassy officials say the lorry which collided with Mr Tsvangirai’s car belonged to a partner organisation of the US government aid agency USAID. MDC general-secretary Tendai Biti paid tribute to Mrs Tsvangirai, calling her “a mother to us and to our struggle”. On Saturday afternoon, Mr Tsvangirai, 56, left the Harare clinic where he was treated for injuries sustained in the crash.”
Ice Worlds: Part 1
March 6, 2009 by koltregaskes · Comments
Test 1
March 4, 2009 by koltregaskes · Comments
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BBC – Radio 1 – Red Nose Day 2009
February 27, 2009 by koltregaskes · Comments
OK everyone if you can please donate as much as you can afford to Comic Relief. Either via the website or via text. Please visit the site above for more info.
My favourite Flickr photographers
August 2, 2008 by koltregaskes · Comments
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Here is my list of favourite photographers on the photo sharing site, Flickr. Some of these I might have listed on previously entries but these will be their Flickr pages.
And don’t forgot my Flickr photo at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/koltregaskes 
First link round-up for 17th Apirl 2008
April 17, 2008 by koltregaskes · Comments
In an effort to keep this site fresh and updated I added my diggs to the RSS feed via FeedBurner. What I was able to do in FeedBurner was set-up my diggs to be automatically posted as a daily digest in the feed only. This was great and I loved the way the digest was laid out. But there were 2 problems:
1. The daily digest of my diggs appeared only on my feed. So if you were reading my web site you wouldn’t even know about the digg digest.
2. I digg about all sorts of things and not just photography. So having it automated was not the best option for a photography site.
I wanted a very easy process that allowed me to post my relevant diggs as a daily digest to my blog. So this is what I’m trying:
Thanks mainly goes to Liam DelaHunty for this. Liam set up a Yahoo Pipes ‘pipe’ that creates a feed of your diggs with URLs linking directly to the web page you’re digging about (instead of the actual digg page). I’ve cloned Liam’s pipe feed here and now subscribe to them via RSSFWD as a daily digest. What RSSFWD allows you to do is receive any RSS feed you like as an e-mail, ie. directly into your inbox instead of your RSS reader. So what I’ve done is subscribe to my 2 pipe feeds and set them up to be sent to me each day as a daily digest.
I can now copy the contents of these e-mails into a blog entry, easily remove my irrelevant diggs and post them here each day. If this works well I can remove the automated diggs feeds from FeedBurner and continue to post the relevant feeds in the fashion below. My next task is to do the same but not just for digg, ie. find a easy way to produce a link round-up of anything I find.
Salt and Pepper [close-up photo]
Image of a peppercorn and a grain of salt!
koltregaskes Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:04:25 PDT
Snowflakes In The Universal Sky
Like cascading snowflakes in the interstellar night, the strange shapes and textures of the stars in the Snowflake Cluster abound in the Cone Nebula. These patterns result from the tumultuous unrest that accompanies the formation of the open cluster of stars known as NGC 2264.
koltregaskes Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:04:03 PDT
16 awesome image editing tutorials
More than a dozen fantastic tutorials showing how to do image editing in Aviary’s online image editor. Concepts are reusable in Photoshop too.
koltregaskes Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:42:05 PDT
Visions of Sun’s great ‘belches’
Nasa’s Stereo orbiters have captured stunning new images of spaceborne debris thrown out from the Sun.
koltregaskes Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:06:22 PDT
Future short and long term plans
March 20, 2008 by koltregaskes · Comments
I’ve started to create a list of future implementations to the site and the Squashy Frog Photography ‘project’ as a whole. The list looks something like this:
- A gallery is definitely needed. So far attempts to add a Gallery2 gallery to the WordPress site have failed and for the moment the site only has the not-so-great alternative in the way of the Portfolio pages.
- The dreaded adverts. Yep I’m planning to add some, though I hope to have relevant ads and they will only appear on the blog page. I already have Google Adsense ads on the RSS feed page and the previous blog site, and I’ve used Amazon Associates links to CDs, DVDs and books both here and there.
- Externally I need to reorganise my deviantART store page. I’ve enquired into whether they can bulk change things but apparently this is not possible. It means a tedious job of deleting virtually everything that is already there and added the rest of my portfolio photos. If too tedious then I’ll go elsewhere for my store facilities, but we’ll see. (any suggestions on this can be posted here). I plan to upload the bordered versions only for the moment. I will, however, add a comment to each photo saying that if you would like a non-border version please let me know and I’ll add it.
- Again externally or perhaps as an alternative to above I would like to set-up a stock photography account somewhere. I have a list of companies I’m considering: PhotoShelter, Fotolia, TriggerSnappy.co.uk and iStockPhoto. I have already signed up on PhotographersDirect and awaiting feedback on my first 2 submitted photos (but I’m happy just to been granted an initial account). Tips and advice on stock photography is most welcome.
- Small things to be done such as signature bar (to include my important social media links), business cards, letterheads and more important to all these a better logo. I’m no artist, well no digital painter, and so hope an old artist friend can help me out here.
- What site doesn’t have an FAQ (frequently asked questions)? Mine for a start! I have a hidden page already in place and will add to that when/if questions roll in but I hope to have a page that is linked off to articles, such as how I created the site, how I go about taking photos, etc.
- It’s a long way off, if ever, but I might be tempted to add a forum. The Revolution theme comes with ‘free’ one so it’s very possible. But there is no point until there is (if at all) a large amount of readers. It’s currently marked as a ‘nice-to-have’.
- The biggie is, of course, is the photography. I have tons of photos to process, I have plans to go out to events during the year (June to August being the busy time if I can) and I need to carry on reading through and performing all the articles and tutorials I’ve saved (for photography, Photoshop as well as web site, blogging, marketing, advertising, business and social media). I will continue to write up and blog background details on my portfolio photos, continue to participate on Flickr and my other photo-sharing sites, continue to digg and stumble, and of course continue to learn and enjoy everything along the way.
Expect updates to this list in the future.
