I am contemplating blocking all Korean and Chinese IP addresses from my machines using firewall rules. I am just sick of the port scanning, spamming, open proxy probes, virii and other unpleasant things that they do.
I asked on IRC and someone pointed me at this site that contains lists of IP’s in all sorts of formats, next I will hack something up to use a set in ipfw2 to put the rules, and will cron updating of them.
A while ago a friend of mine wanted some photos for her portfolio, we went around London to find some interesting spots for her to pose in. She is a absolute natural subject and have a whole lot of character. The shot below is by far my favorite from the shoot. More from the same day can be seen here
Last night I was waiting on London Bridge station to meet a friend, while waiting I took a couple of photos of the commuters, photo below is one of the nicest for the night.
London attracts weirdos in a big way. I try and hang around the tourist spots a few times a month since there are often very entertaining things happening. Usually this is in the form of Street Performers or other people doing things for money.
For many months now I kept bumping into one specific guy that always hang around Piccadilly and areas but never had a camera with me to capture him. Tonight I did and finally got some shots of him. He started off standing with a board with the words “Odd Erection” printed on it in many different languages, with a weird picture. Eventually he started wearing a tshirt with the same on. Thesedays you will often find him talking to tourists who obviously cannot help asking what the story is. I too asked him what is going on and he told me he just has nothing better to do, other people claim he told them he is a art student. Regardless, he has been a constant London peculiarity now for 8 or so months.
Here he is with his old card board, he also got a mention here and on some other places.
Click these thumbnails for my shots of him tonight
Creative Pro has a nice piece on how a digital camera sensor works complete with diagrams, worth a read for anyone keen to know how it works, it even shows why digital cameras tend to have very good green reproduction.
