Links for 2007-08-23
- The Last.fm Normaliser tells you which bands and albums you've listened to for longest (based on the average song length) If you like your Orbital, as I do, then suddenly the fact that their tunes are four times as long as music by the Pixies counts for something.
- I've got a bit of a lust on for the Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM This is the white monster for taking interesting candid photos and nature shots. Looks heavy!
- Is it just me that's been having trouble with Yahoo Messenger for the Mac since the Safari Betas came out? Webkit seems to have changed its behaviour in such a way that Messenger no longer works quite so well. I'll have to find out who to talk to about that.
- I keep walking past adverts for a new George Clooney film, Michael Clayton, but I don't know much about it... I've watched the trailer and it looks quite interesting, but it's sort of appeared on my horizon without any hype at all. Anyone know what the word on it is?
Comments
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(whispers) Do it. Do it. Do it. I've had my 70-200 2.8L IS for about four years now and it's pretty much the best thing ever. Superior bokeh, effective handheld stabilization, and a reasonably useful range on a APS-C body. The best part is being able to back way off of your subject so candids are much more natural and the longer reach flatters most faces (makes ears and noses seem less prominent, in particular) and yes, it is heavy, but you won't begrudge the weight.
→ Posted by: Nathan Schmidt at August 23, 2007 5:06 AM
yeah, get it - my second favorite lense
the last.fm normalizer is down, but it has the best error message i've seen in a long time: "Dreadfully sorry, looks like we've hit a snag..."
→ Posted by: cal at August 23, 2007 5:00 PM
You can tell how good a camera is by how much it weighs.
→ Posted by: Anil Dash at August 23, 2007 7:10 PM
I listen to both Beethoven symphonies (some of them are all one track) and pop, so the normaliser sounds like a very good idea to me, wouldn't want to be unfair to the classics :)
→ Posted by: Matthew Somerville at August 24, 2007 1:02 PM
I ran into a couple problems with Messenger and the Safari beta. The main one was that chat windows no longer scrolled to the bottom upon receiving new messages. I fixed it by changing the scrollbarUpdate function in Yahoo! Messenger.app/Contents/Resources/Default.ymStyle/main.js to the following:
function scrollbarUpdate() {
document.body.scrollTop = document.body.scrollHeight - window.innerHeight;
}
Was there anything else in Messenger that the Safari 3 beta broke for you?
→ Posted by: http://openid.aol.com/rolocroz at August 25, 2007 5:00 AM
I've got the Sigma 70-200 2.8, which is just as good, but I think it's even heavier. I love working with it, but when I do so outdoors people comment on it all the time ("Oooh, that's a big camera."). Sometimes I wish I could switch off comments off line as well as online. ;-)
→ Posted by: Caroline at August 25, 2007 2:11 PM
Rolocroz - no that was the main problem. Thanks so much for the fix!
→ Posted by: Tom Coates at August 25, 2007 3:45 PM