Craig April 30th, 2007
Among the many gods and goddesses worshipped in Taiwan, Mazu (媽祖), the Goddess of the Sea is perhaps the most revered. Every year, in the 3rd month of the lunar calendar, the Dajia Mazu (大甲媽祖), which is housed at the Zhenlan temple (
Craig April 29th, 2007
The French Security Incident Response Team (FrSIRT) has advised that “A vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Photoshop, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by buffer overflow errors when handling a malformed “BMP”, “DIB” or “RLE” file, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted file using a vulnerable application.”
It’s said to affect both Photoshop CS2 and CS3 on Windows machines. ZDNet has more information about it. Be careful.
Craig April 23rd, 2007
A performance of Chinese opera was underway at a temple near me the other day.
Craig April 20th, 2007
Canon have remade and relaunched Canon Professional Services under a new name - Canon Professional Network (CPN). With interviews, technical details, news, podcasts, tutorials and more, CPN’s mission is to be a source of inspiration, education and motivation for the professional photographer.
From their “about” page.
“Welcome to Canon Professional Network (CPN), Canon Europe’s new professional photographic website. CPN replaces the Canon Professional Services (CPS) site.
The aim of CPN is simple: to be a source of inspiration, education and motivation for the professional photographer and the aspiring photographic enthusiast. To achieve this we have teamed up with some of the very best professionals and experts from both inside and outside the photographic world.
CPN features and honours those professionals that use Canon equipment in so many exciting ways, creating images that reflect and define the world in which we live. They, along with our team of independent writers, explore the opportunities of the ever-changing and creative digital environment.
Over the past year, our CPS teams across Europe have been busy supporting professional photographers at major international events. CPN has been born out of listening to you at these and other events – to your needs, your wishes and your passion for photography.
We look forward to you being a big part of the site and contributing your images, comments and ideas.
Our independent editorial team, lead by editor Mike Stanton, will endeavour to reflect your wishes in the ever-growing content that is planned for the web site. The opinions presented within this site are those of the authors and not neccessarily those of Canon. We aim to provide an independent viewpoint about our products and their uses.
We hope you will enjoy this site and continue to return as new content is frequently added. Here we launch with just a flavour of what is to come.”
It looks to be a very useful resource for photographers who use Canon equipment.
Craig April 19th, 2007
160km south of Bangkok is the city of Phetchaburi (Phetburi). Located just outside the city is the cave temple complex known as Khao Luang. Three chambers in the complex hold numerous stalactites and Buddha statues, many of which were installed by King Rama IV. Holes in the ceiling allow filtered sunlight to light up parts of the cave.
