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Snow, Panorama Apps, and other Irritations

We might just have a white Christmas here – bleh. The white stuff started falling on Saturday, has started up again today, and temps that refuse to rise above 1šC look set to keep the snow around for a while yet.

Victoria Int'l Under Snow

The above was created in GIMP with the Pandora panorama plugin, which works after a fashion but is a very basic way of munging together panoramas from multiple photographs.

The theoretically more elegant, complete & automated way of creating panoramas, Hugin, freezes, crashes or throws errors nearly every time I try it. I can get the two-image tutorial to work some of the time, but anything else screws up … This is Hugin 0.7.0 in Ubuntu 8.10 — does anyone know if this thing actually works at all, or is it just hard-drive clutter at this stage in it’s development?

Error Screen in Hugin

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Seasonalness

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Canadian Politics, Suddenly Interesting!

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Ten years in space

The International Space Station turned ten years old a few days ago, and the Big Picture photo-blog had a spectacular set of photos to mark the occasion.

The Big Picture is always spectacular, actually. If it’s not already on your blogroll or regular intertube rounds, it should be!