i q r a

How could I return to photoblogging for fun? Hasn’t the world changed? Aren’t people fighting for survival at this very instant. And me still having ‘fun’ with this website? In a word. Yes. I surfed around the web, and noticed it was kinda ‘quiet’ with the number of comments dwindling on many photoblogs I frequent. I dunno if it be the christmas to new year’s lull or are others feeling the same as I?

I entertained a few thoughts on the types of photographs I wanted to post onto photopia with respect to the Tsunami. My first thoughts were of a photograph taken of the Pacific Ocean just south of the Golden Gate and north of the Sutro Baths some weeks back.

The magnanimity of the Ocean, capital “O”, can at once be calming and catastrophic. I posted the photo earlier today with some intentional resizing and cropping to fill the screen. Hence allowing the photo to impact and humble one who loads up the webpage for the first time.

My captioning of the photo with the single word ‘yes’ is first a reminder to myself that YES, it can happen anywhere. It can happen here, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Yes, it can happen in my hometown of Toronto, inland peninsula be damned: Hurricane Hazel found and wound its way into Toronto from the Atlantic and submerged the city once before.

Upon first learning of the tsunami, it had hit Aceh, 81 reported dead, yet not India nor Sri Lanka, a few hours later and the gravity of reality, thousands missing, would enter my consciousness.

This catastrophe is 9/11 a hundred fold.

How To Speed Up Firefox on Broadband

Posted on 12/12/2004 12:45:50 PM PST by KoRn

Here’s something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

1. Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return.

Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. By doubleclicking on each, alter the entries as follows:

Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to 8.

This means it will make 8 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer.

Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″.

This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now!

Finally stayed on my ass, sat in front of the ‘puter, and ‘upgraded’ to Folderblog v 2.02.

Why so long? I dunno. fear of…success?

I thought almost everything was running fine with the fb 2.0 preview version, except for those tiny annoyances that fb v 2.02 resolved with respect to its preview version, which has powered p h o t o p i a til a few minutes ago, when I finally uploaded the version 2.02 files.

I needed to upload something to see if the minor aches and pains had gone away, hence the two rather unremarkable water fountain pictures played guinea pig today.

For me, no more minor annoyances.

For visitors, ‘cept for the teeny tiny itsy bitsy weblink in the bottom right corner to this here new Iqra ‘photo’blog, p h o t o p i a looks the same as before.

Bismillah…

Originally an inkling for a spot to discuss phototaking, that inkling has grown into a necessity to accumulate everything photo-related into one spot for easy self-referencing later. Somehow, photo(b)logging doesn’t fit into the rest of my life’s work. Hence this ‘photo’blog… I trust the Heisenberg Principle was waiting for me to say that, so it can make its appearance. Lessee where this goes, shall we?

Delay of game penalty on me for not creating a place to enhance my photo(b)log, P h o t o p i a, in the first place.

“Iqra” is Arabic for “read,” by the way. I coulda come up with something better. Nyahhhh. HiMY lazy. P h o t o p i a now has its own blog. Outtasight!