TannieSpace » photo http://tanniespace.com geekery, drawing, and then some Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:32:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Camera stuff http://tanniespace.com/2010/powershot-sx20-is-digital-camera/ http://tanniespace.com/2010/powershot-sx20-is-digital-camera/#comments tanja http://tanniespace.com/?p=1778 sx20is_586x225.jpg

My camera has started to break down. I currently have a Canon Powershot A620 and it served me well for nearly four years. Currently, the memory-card bit doesn’t work properly. The card doesn’t click in and if I take it out the camera doesn’t recognise the card half the time I put it back. I’ve dug up the cable and now get the photos from the camera by the cable (a nuisance).

I looked into other cameras and now have my eye on the Canon Powershot SX20 IS. I like Canon, and have had a few in the past and like the menu and the way it works. This model seemed a good step up from the A620 but not yet as massive as a DSLR. I don’t have anything with DSLRs in general. And knowing me I’ll get sand on the sensor on the first day and ruin the camera because it scratches.

I won’t buy it just yet, probably in June.

]]> http://tanniespace.com/2010/powershot-sx20-is-digital-camera/feed/ 0 Geeking out with twitter and flickr stuff http://tanniespace.com/2010/geeking-out-with-twitter-and-flickr-stuff/ http://tanniespace.com/2010/geeking-out-with-twitter-and-flickr-stuff/#comments tanja http://tanniespace.com/?p=1748 Recently I found a php script by Chris Morrel which allows you to post photos to flickr (and get the correct flic.kr short url back) from Tweetie 2. I tweaked it a little to get used hashtags as flickr-tags and to have them removed from the title (the script uses the message as the title).

Right after:

    $tags = FLICKR_TAGS;
    if (TAG_WITH_HANDLE) {
        $tags .= ' @' . $_POST['username'];
    }

I added:

    preg_match_all('/#(\w+)/', $title, $matches);
    foreach ($matches[1] as &$tag) {
        $tags .= ' ' . $tag;
    }
    $title = preg_replace("/#\w+/i", '', $title);

It worked as I wanted, so yay!

]]> http://tanniespace.com/2010/geeking-out-with-twitter-and-flickr-stuff/feed/ 0 Homemade white-chocolate-ginger-cheesecake with a sauce of caramel and sweet chili, and some chocolate sprinkles. http://tanniespace.com/2009/homemade-white-chocolate-ginger-cheesecake-with-a-sauce-of-caramel-and-sweet-chili-and-some-chocolate-sprinkles/ http://tanniespace.com/2009/homemade-white-chocolate-ginger-cheesecake-with-a-sauce-of-caramel-and-sweet-chili-and-some-chocolate-sprinkles/#comments tanja http://tanniespace.com/?p=1238 Homemade white-chocolate-ginger-cheesecake with a sauce of caramel and sweet chili, and some chocolate sprinkles.

200 grams cream cheese
100 grams white chocolate
1 teaspoon grated ginger
1 teaspoon gingerroot-powder (or more to taste)
1 tbsp sweet chili sauce (roughly)
1 tbsp caramel

Make biscuit bottom (I used readymade, happened to have it…)

Melt chocolate au bain marie, mix in cheese, put in cakeform. Layer over biscuit bottom, put in fridge for an hour or two.

Mix sweet chili sauce with caramel and drip over cake.

Trying to imitate the Wagamama version ;) It turned out slightly runny, but not too bad. Tips to firm it up appreciated.

(boyfriend said ‘it tastes cheesy’)

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Hurray!

]]> http://tanniespace.com/2009/start-to-draw-your-life-in-my-mailbox/feed/ 0 Nephew’s wall, step 2. http://tanniespace.com/2009/nephews-wall-step-2/ http://tanniespace.com/2009/nephews-wall-step-2/#comments tanja http://tanniespace.com/nephews-wall-step-2/ Vectored it. I started digitising the earlier sketch cause I couldn’t really sleep anyway. Now my hand hurts.

But it looks cool.

]]> http://tanniespace.com/2009/nephews-wall-step-2/feed/ 0 Sketch for nephew’s wall. http://tanniespace.com/2009/sketch-for-nephews-wall/ http://tanniespace.com/2009/sketch-for-nephews-wall/#comments tanja http://tanniespace.com/sketch-for-nephews-wall/ Sketch for nephew’s wall.

Sister asked me to ‘design’ a wall for her son’s new room. I made an initial (quick) sketch on my computer which I’ll work out in more detail.


]]> http://tanniespace.com/2009/sketch-for-nephews-wall/feed/ 0 Mouse near my house. http://tanniespace.com/2009/mouse-near-my-house/ http://tanniespace.com/2009/mouse-near-my-house/#comments tanja http://tanniespace.com/?p=1198 A mouse on my balcony.

It storms a bit today. Lots of rain and wind. I’ve decided to stay inside, apart from the quick trips with Nano. When I looked out of my window onto my balcony, I saw this little one.
It scurried about, probably looking for either food or shelter. Managed to snap a quick shot of it before it ran of because I scared it with a camera in its face.

It did come back a few minutes later though, trying to access the house. Hmm…

]]> http://tanniespace.com/2009/mouse-near-my-house/feed/ 1 My colourcube. http://tanniespace.com/2009/my-colourcube/ http://tanniespace.com/2009/my-colourcube/#comments tanja http://tanniespace.com/my-colourcube/ My colourcube.

]]> http://tanniespace.com/2009/my-colourcube/feed/ 0 Totally awesome decoration in the metro! http://tanniespace.com/2009/totally-awesome-decoration-in-the-metro/ http://tanniespace.com/2009/totally-awesome-decoration-in-the-metro/#comments tanja http://tanniespace.com/totally-awesome-decoration-in-the-metro/ Totally awesome decoration in the metro! Totally awesome decoration in the metro! Totally awesome decoration in the metro! Totally awesome decoration in the metro!

The entire train had these decorations on the walls and ceiling. It looked great!

]]> http://tanniespace.com/2009/totally-awesome-decoration-in-the-metro/feed/ 2 Purple. http://tanniespace.com/2009/purple/ http://tanniespace.com/2009/purple/#comments tanja http://tanniespace.com/purple/ Purple .

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