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Paul Watson wrote:
Anymore to the right and I would be one with the rocks, 100 feet below!
Reminds me of a shot I took at Boy Scout camp. Rather, I set it up and had a slave Tenderfoot in my patrol (Troop 447 - Beaver Patrol, naturally) take the shot. My best friend, Scott, and me lying contorted on the rocks in the surf off Catalina Island, were featured in the shot from a cliff 120' above. We wanted to send it to our mothers with a note from the camp nurse informing them that we were having a great time, and were expected to recover completely. We were greatly disappointed to learn that developing services were not available at camp, so the prank never came off.
My all-time favorite, though, was a B&W shot I staged in my garage. In '73/74 the comet Kohoutek was the media darling of the year, touted to be the brightest display in the heavens in decades. Naturally, the celestial party pooper was a no show, and at its peak was barely visible. Not to be deterred, I set up my camera in the garage, piled magnesium turnings high on an upside down coffee can then ignited them. I switched on a fan adjacent to the actinic pyre but out of the frame, and snapped a series of shots of my "comet" using Tri-X and no flash. They turned out spectacular, but the newspaper declined to publish my exclusive report.
"Please don't put cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light" - Sign in a Bullhead City, AZ Restroom
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About three years ago a man was killed by a rock that crushed his car on the drive. Another woman was crippled by a rock. There have been plenty of incidents like that before those two, but these two (or rather the family of the dead man) tried to sue the city of Cape Town.
So the drive was closed and they have now spent millions of Rand and many years fixing it. The road was fine, but the cliffs above it needed to be stabilised.
They are re-opening in in February 2004 actually 
Unfortuanatley to pay for the repairs and ongoing maintenance it will be a toll road now.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Crikey! ain't life grand?
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My website is finally up, and of course it revolves around photography. Image files are really big, but then it is all about the images init?
About page is naff, but best I can do for now. Want to write it for me?
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Marshall wrote: (on Jap to Engrish)
The web translator said:
"For success one must aquire one's self"
My translation based on the code:
"If the copy of the this pointer is valid, return true.
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Paul Watson wrote:
About page is naff
I quite liked it, it had a light side to it that kept me reading.
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
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David Wulff wrote:
I quite liked it, it had a light side to it that kept me reading.
Thanks 
And the rest of the site? I know you cannot talk to me directly anymore but just relay to Mini David wether you thought the site in general was good. Navigation? Content? Load times? Usability? Was the dark grey heading text on the dark grey background too hard too read? It is a minimalist site because after all it is about the photographs not how much cool HTML sh*t I can thrown in
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Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Macbeth muttered:
I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er
Want a job?
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Imagine that - nearly a year now since the website went active. Are you planning a major refit for the anniversary? Something with a I'm # 1! theme, in honor of passing Nish as the top poster? Only a couple hundred posts to go!
Heard in Bullhead City - "You haven't lost your girl -
you've just lost your turn..." [sigh] So true...
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Great slide film, and cheaper than Fuji Velvia. Processed my first slide film the other day and it looks fab. It is excellent for colours, very rich and saturated. Not good for people though, skin tone comes out reddish, especially when using a Flash.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Roger Wright wrote:
Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!
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I took the plunge and bought a Canon EOS 300v with a Canon 28-90mm II lens. For the first few weeks I have been using Fuji Superia 200 film, consumer grade film while I learn the ropes. I have just bought some Fuji Sensia 100 slide film, which I am a bit nervous to actually use
As I take roll after roll I will upload the best ones, mainly for my sake but if you like them, then wonderful.
Currently I have 11 photos on Photo.net, but I have recently found PhotoSIG.com which IMO is a better site with a better community. The only problem is they only let you upload one photo ever 3 days (for good reason) so it will take some time before I get all my photos up on that site.
Photo.net portfolio.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Photographs
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I can give you some space on my server if you want.
Only caveat, I can't give out the FTP credentials so I'll have to do the uploading for you.
Want it?
Cheers,
Simon
"The day I swan around in expensive suits is the day I hope someone puts a bullet in my head.", Chris Carter.
my svg article
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SimonS wrote:
I can give you some space on my server if you want.
Really appreciate the offer, thanks Simon. But I have plenty of space on our hosting server (if you ever need photo space, with your own FTP account, then just ask and I will set one up for you.)
What I meant was that for photosig.com itself one can only upload 1 photo every three days (at the begining, as your ratings go up so does the number of photos you submit, good system.) It makes one choose the best photos very carefully. The reason I want them on photosig.com is because the community gives good critiques on your photos. So people can help me learn to take better photographs
How is this for co-incidence. I took that Camps Bay fire film to be developed at the Kodak in Cavendish Square (I am trying every photo lab I can until I find a good one... this Kodak was not) and when I came to collect the CD the girl who did the developing rushed up and pointed out that she was in one of the photographs! She also went up to take photos. Had a good chuckle over that, amazing thing co-incidence
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Photographs
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Out of interest, did you just send the pic unsolicited, or do they have some kind of standard process asking people to submit suitable photos?
--
Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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benjymous wrote:
Out of interest, did you just send the pic unsolicited, or do they have some kind of standard process asking people to submit suitable photos?
I just sent it unsolicited to editor@news24.co.za (the email I got from the site)
Most newspapers though would probably reject it or only give you a few seconds to make your case. They generally only accept from known photographers.
In this case though it was a major event and they had no photos for it. It was also a dramatic event which lends itself well to photos, so that helped.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
My photoSIG portfolio[^]
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Testing signature in here so that if it is too big it does not nuke other forums
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa <br<small>Christopher Duncan wrote:
Which explains why when Santa asked, "And what do you want for Christmas, little boy?" I said, "A life." (Something no programmer should be without. Accessories sold separat
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First time was not a success, take two
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Christopher Duncan wrote:
Which explains why when Santa asked, "And what do you want for Christmas, little boy?" I said, "A life." (Accesories sold separately)
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looks fine now.
Regards,
Brian Dela
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test
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Paul Watson wrote:
"The Labia [cinema]... ...was opened by Princess Labia in May 1949..."
Christian Graus wrote:
See, I told you it was a nice name for a girl...
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Any ideas, concepts, eurekas etc. related to web development.
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(IE6 only at this point, but possible to get working perfectly well in Mozilla 1.0 and other web standards supporting browsers)
Live Demo (can't do a demo here as JavaScript is nullified)
Summary
A DHTML menu which strictly seperates content from presentation from logic/function. The content/structure is pure HTML with no inline CSS, inline Javascript events or any such lark. Therefore it can be rendered to virtually any device and be viewed as intended. It will degrade functionally and visually gracefully.
The CSS is all in a seperate CSS file and applied using child parent selectors.
The functionality (JavaScript) is in a seperate file and is attached to the UL structure on body load of document.
HTML (view complete source in the Live Demo link above)
...
<body onload="initialiseMenu();">
<h1>DMenu: Sample Simple</h1>
<ul id="mainmenu">
<li><a href="about/">About Us</a></li>
<li><a href="about/">Articles</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="articles/">C#</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="articles/">C# Reference</a></li>
<li><a href="articles/">Tutorials</a></li>
<li><a href="articles/">Samples</a></li>
<li><a href="articles/">FAQ</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="articles/">.NET</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="articles/">.NET Reference</a></li>
<li><a href="articles/">Tutorials</a></li>
<li><a href="articles/">Samples</a></li>
<li><a href="articles/">FAQ</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="articles/">Windows Forms</a></li>
<li><a href="articles/">Web Forms</a></li>
<li><a href="articles/">XML</a></li>
<li><a href="articles/">ADO.NET</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="articles/">ASP.NET</a></li>
<li><a href="articles/">MC++</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="articles/">MC++ Reference</a></li>
<li><a href="articles/">Tutorials</a></li>
<li><a href="articles/">Samples</a></li>
<li><a href="articles/">FAQ</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="about/">Tools</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="articles/">Assemblers</a></li>
<li><a href="articles/">Disassemblers</a></li>
<li><a href="articles/">CP Utilities</a>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="contactus/">Contact Us</a></li>
</ul>
...
As you can see pure HTML, no CSS, no JavaScript events etc.
JavaScript (view complete source)
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function initialiseMenu(){
var cTag = document.body.getElementsByTagName("LI");
for(var i=0; i < cTag.length; i++){
tcTag = cTag[i];
if (tcTag.children.length == 2)
{
tcTag.onmouseover=showSubMenu;
tcTag.onmouseout=hideSubMenu;
tcTag.children[0].className = "hassubmenu";
}
}
}
...
Basically it gets all LI children of the BODY element. It then loops through this collection and checks to see if the LI element has two children. Two children indicates a sub menu (it always has 1 child which is the A element.) One detected it then assigns the onmouseover and onmouseout events to that LI element.
The showSubMenu and hideSubMenu functions take in a this parameter (invisibly, i.e. no need for you to actually pass it) and then shows any UL child of the this element.
Nifty huh?
CSS (view complete source)
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ul, li
{
font-size: small;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
display: block;
}
ul
{
width: 130px;
border: solid 1px #333333;
border-top: solid 5px #333333;
border-right: solid 2px #333333;
}
ul li ul
{
display: none;
position: absolute;
}
li a
{
padding: 2px;
text-decoration: none;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ffffee;
width: 100%;
display: block;
border-bottom: dashed 1px #333333;
text-indent: 2px;
font-size: small;
}
li a:hover
{
background-color: #ffcc00;
font-weight: bold;
border-bottom: solid 1px #333333;
}
li
{
float: left;
}
a.hassubmenu
{
background-image: url(../img/lay_dmnuhassub.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 120px 7px;
}
#mainmenu
{
margin: 10px;
margin-left: 5px;
float: left;
border-bottom: solid 2px #333333;
margin-bottom: 100%;
}...
As you can see the CSS uses child parent selectors (e.g. ul li ul means a UL element which is a child of an LI element which is a child of an UL element.)
Be sure NOT to place any margins around the A element or the onmouseout event will be fired before you mouseover the next menu item, found that out the hard way
Also notice that no positioning is done on the submenuitems. This is because the UL/LI/UL/LI structure imposes positiong itself, which is great because it does it well
Enjoy
Improvements
- Get to work in Mozilla 1.0 (and therefore Netscape 6.x/7.x as well)
- Pre-load "has sub menu" arrow graphic
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Hi Paul
Have you got another link perhaps? Its sure does look interesting
Cheers
"There are no stupid question's, just stupid people."
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leppie wrote:
Have you got another link perhaps? Its sure does look interesting
Have a look at my DMenu article, it is the same thing
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Ray Cassick wrote:
Well I am not female, not gay and I am not Paul Watson
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Duis autem vel eum iriure dolor Got it !
"There are no stupid question's, just stupid people."
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The UL/LI-combo with absolute positioning is pretty smart indeed! I wish I had read this 2 1/2 months ago...
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standing so tall, the ground behind
no trespassers, on every floor
a garden swing, and another door
she makes it clear, that everything is hers
A place of abode, not far from here, Ms. Van de Veer
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