Tanked Up

I’ve never seen a room of people look so depressed after an England win. Surely they can play better than this. If not we deserve to go out.

Ronaldo walks into a Burger King and asks for two Whoppers.
The assistant thinking quickly says “You’re not fat and you can still score goals”

It’s summer, I’m through the dark phase, time for some light. Hope you like the new colour.

Nice goal by Joe Cole, errrr struggling to find anything else positive.

Will be shocked if we get past the Quarter Final stage. Am applying for Dutch citizenship.

A selection of tutorials for correcting underwater images taken at less than 5m without a flash, has been added to the Imaging Tips section. These tutorials will also work on normal land based photography. There are three methods demonstrated with links to screenshots on each stage for novice users. The methods demonstrated include contrast masks, grayscale masks and levels & gamma adjustment.
There is also a GIMP script-fu (macro) included for one of the methods.
Continue to contrast mask tutorials

A tutorial showing how a gradient can be applied to an image, using GIMP image manipulation software, has been added to the Imaging Tips section. There are links to more indepth explainations with screenshots on each stage, for novice users.  There are also links to pages explaining how to create and save your own gradients, along with example effects for experienced users. Continue to gradient tutorial

We are in the process of viewing the hundreds of hours of video that we have captured over the last couple of years. This will be edited down to about 30 minutes and made into a DVD for general release. In the mean time there is a five minute video clip of some Dahab, Sinai dive sites for you to view. There are also 45 Red Sea fish, Macromedia Flash video clips under the ‘Video Gallery’ sections.
Continue to a work in progress 5 minute Flash clip on the main site.

Watched this for 83 mins frustrated and mildly embarrassed, this is after all the team that Sven tells us will win the World Cup.

The only plus was seeing Rooney come on and imagining Alex Ferguson’s face going purple with rage. HA!

Oh and the laugh out loud Crouch effort in the first half. Still, he scored eventually. Had to pull the T&T defenders dreadlocks off to do it though.

What’s the plan F then Sven?

Well we’ve jumped into the 21st century (6 years late) and loaded software to enable some feedback.

If there are any problems bear with us, it’s being tested now and should be bloody perfect by the end of June.

Well M$ have released their latest bunch of fixes, which includes the Eolas patch. Microsoft has been forced to update how ActiveX components behave in web pages due to a patent wrangle with Eolas. The consequence being that all our Flash videos will be initially disabled until the user has enabled the ActiveX by clicking on the movie.

We’ve got around this by using some javascript which is widely available on the internet. One of the sites that has it and a fuller explaination is www.mix-fx.com.

Good old Eolas, I thought it was just M$ that were put on this planet to make my life difficult!