June 30, 2008
So after buying a (relatively) cheap Canon EOS 300D locally, I decided to convert it for Infrared photography.
Normal infrared photography would mean buying a filter (typically a Hoya R72), composing the image on a tripod, fitting the filter in front of the lens with correct filter size and taking a long exposure (~30 secs in sunlight). This still doesn’t yield a very good photo as the noise generated by the process is substantial.
What I did (with the guidance of wnelson of POTN) was to replace the filter in front of the sensor itself with one that allows radiation with wavelength greater than 715nm (to ~1200nm) to pass through. This allows only (invisible to humans) infrared to pass through, resulting in images such as this:
All in all I think the 20 or so hours I spent disassembling, driving around to get parts and stress was well spent 
June 23, 2008
No, I am not becomming an axe murderer. Full Motion Violence (fmv) is the name of a Counter-Strike Source clan that has been revived by it’s previous leader, Adam (a.k.a. Terminator or Hack^)
Back in the days of Counter-Strike 1.6 the A-Team players (which I filled in for occasionally) were at the top of the most prestigious league of the time, Enemy Down. Now that some players have been reassembled and new ones scouted to play for us we are re-entering the league and hoping for the best.
The reason I am featuring it on my blog is I am also the webmaster for the fmv site and have created some WordPress themes and plug-ins that I will be publishing on here. The theme I originally created was my first, so will not be publicly shown (it was pretty terrible), but I have created a WordPress Widget for monitoring Source Engine servers from WordPress. This will be published soon (it needs some proper testing!)
June 9, 2008
Now that I have finished at University (with a 2:1, yay!) I am looking for a job. Now that I have a lot of free time I can develop all of the applications I started at Uni that were benched because of workload. I will be publishing them on this blog in a number of weeks when they are polished and compiled for the main operating systems (Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.) Most of the programs are inspired by popular shareware and trial software or only for a single operating system, such as NewsLeecher, Magic File Renamer and The Regex Coach.