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	<title>Alan's Blog</title>
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	<description>The weblog of Alan Formstone. Scuba Diving, Travel, Photography and a sprinkling of tech stuff.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Google Chrome First Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://alanformstone.com/blog/google-chrome-first-thoughts-23.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alanform</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[    
    


Well I like it it a lot for all the reasons that Google tell me that I should, except for a couple of things :
1. I cant work out how to detect RSS feeds on a page. Even if i could detect them its seems there is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A lesson about leaking strobes</title>
		<link>http://alanformstone.com/blog/lesson-about-leaking-strobes-22.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alanform</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Under Water Photography]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Scuba Diving]]></category>

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My Ikelite DS-125 strobes come in two pieces, the expensive head bit with all the extremely expensive electronics and a relatively inexpensive (relatively is the key word) battery compartment. Now what I didn't know is that the expensive electronics are sealed from the batteries. It says this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Underwater Cave Photography is hard! (4th Trip)</title>
		<link>http://alanformstone.com/blog/underwater-cave-photography-is-hard-4-21.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alanform</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Under Water Photography]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Progress has been slow in my quest to take a decent underwater cave photo. A lot of travelling and othe distractions have kept my cave diving gear dry for longer than I would like.I took one of the strobes into the ocean and had a nasty flood  where I learned  a valuable lesson.
 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ViPlugin for Eclipse</title>
		<link>http://alanformstone.com/blog/viplugin-for-eclipse-20.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alanform</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[python]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tech Stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
I have avoided IDEs for  along time mainly because I cant live without vi. I set up vim with exuberant tags and really didn't feel that I needed anything else. I could click around fairly happily finding the classes I wanted. As my code gets bigger though and i get a bit more advanced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Underwater Cave Photography is hard! (3rd Trip)</title>
		<link>http://alanformstone.com/blog/underwater-cave-photography-3-19.htm</link>
		<comments>http://alanformstone.com/blog/underwater-cave-photography-3-19.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alanform</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Under Water Photography]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Puerto Aventuras]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Scuba Diving]]></category>

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After strobe nightmares this trip is all about ambient light in the cavern zone. The idea being to take some of the pics i took earlier with a lower iso and longer shutter speed by using a tripod.
First things first I had to some how get the camera housing without a tripod mount onto the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Underwater Cave Photography is hard! (2nd Trip)</title>
		<link>http://alanformstone.com/blog/underwater-cave-photography-is-hard-2-18.htm</link>
		<comments>http://alanformstone.com/blog/underwater-cave-photography-is-hard-2-18.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alanform</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Under Water Photography]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Puerto Aventuras]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Scuba Diving]]></category>

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Following on from my first serious attempt at underwater cave photography. I decided to play with a remote slave.
I have two Ikelite DS-125 strobes. I left one on the camera housing and set up another one with a  slave sensor. My plan was to revisit Cenote Taj Mahal and check out how the slave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Underwater Cave Photography is hard! (1st Trip)</title>
		<link>http://alanformstone.com/blog/underwater-cave-photography-1-17.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 20:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alanform</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Under Water Photography]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Scuba Diving]]></category>

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After endless problems with my Ikelite housing, I finally conceded and bought a new one. This seems to be OK and so far hasn't leaked. After a couple of dives in open water i headed off to Taj Mahal to catch the early morning light in the cenote. I have taken some interesting photos with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No More Flickr&#8230; Let&#8217;s see how Zooomr is</title>
		<link>http://alanformstone.com/blog/no-more-flickr-lets-see-how-zooomr-is-14.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 18:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alanform</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

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Though I publish photos on my main website. I wanted a way to quickly share pics with friends and family. As quite a few other people were sharing their photos with me using flickr, i decided to go the same way.
As it turns out free flickr is far too restrictive so its time to find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photoshop Batch processing with Python</title>
		<link>http://alanformstone.com/blog/photoshop-batch-processing-with-python-12.htm</link>
		<comments>http://alanformstone.com/blog/photoshop-batch-processing-with-python-12.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alanform</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Stuff]]></category>

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I meant to look into this for a while and now I have I am very pleasantly suprised!
&#160;
&#160;
import win32com.client
&#160;
ps = win32com.client.Dispatch&#40;&#34;Photoshop.Application&#34;&#41;
ps.Preferences.TypeUnits = 1
ps.Preferences.RulerUnits = 1
&#160;
mydoc = ps.Open&#40;&#34;IMG_1630.jpg&#34;&#41;
if  mydoc.Height &#62; mydoc.Width :
   print &#34;Portrait&#34;
else :
   print &#34;Landscape&#34;
   mydoc.ResizeImage&#40;Width=640&#41;
&#160;
Basically you use the vb api docs :
PS VB API
The API seems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Finning Technique</title>
		<link>http://alanformstone.com/blog/new-finning-technique-11.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alanform</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Scuba Diving]]></category>

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I'm not sure how this would be in a cave  but it looks like it could be fun in the open sea.
I want one!
Navy Seals PowerSwim

]]></description>
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