Johnny English DVD.

We got the DVD of Johnny English yesterday as we really enjoyed watching the film at the cinema. We’ve not had chance to watch it yet, but I popped it in the DVD drive of the laptop this morning just to see what was on it. The screensaver(s) were naff – I thought they could have done a lot better than the two that are on there. There are 6 wallpapers which are not that good pictures. The one of Natalie Imbruglia is not good at all! It looks like they’ve grabbed hold of her head and pulled upwards stretching her neck by several inches.
I did get a good score on the “pretend to be a secret agent game”, which had three flash games strung together in a sequence – a shoot the targets, drive a car, and land on the building game – I think this had the most amount of work spent on it.

Web Album Generator thoughts

Be careful when installing this. If you install over the top of your existing version and have made a template for your albums, then you will lose this information so back it up or make a note of the settings first. The thumbnail quality has improved a lot, although I’m not sure its the same quality as my other tool, Emage4Web. I’ll put up a comparison page later this week of the thumbnail quality.

Wireless networking problem

For about a week now the wireless lan has crawled to a halt. I uploaded a file to my website and it downloads on the lan in 15 seconds. If I download over the wireless lan it’s *expected* to take 9 minutes 24 seconds. This is sitting within 1 metre of the Access Point, with full signal strength and 11Mbps on the speed. Any ideas on what could cause this and how to troubleshoot it? As its basically useless at the moment 🙁 Pings are 6 ms slower on the wireless lan)

Web Album Generator 1.5 released

A new version of WebAlbumGenerator has been released which includes support for better thumbnail generation. This was my only complaint about this software as the thumbnails were often pretty poor quality and I had to use another utility to create the thumbnails. Having said all that, I now use the Coppermine Gallery on the site as it’s works with php and mysql and integrates very nicely with XP’s image upload facilities. For a standalone image album generator, then WebAlbum Generator is the best I’ve seen.

Bristols Balloon Fiesta

Bristol’s 25th Balloon fiesta occurs this weekend and already there are some good photo’s up on the BBC’s website. They are also providing a live streaming video from Thursday through to Sunday of the event. So far all I have seen is people walking past the window whilst hearing some muffled conversations about what they were going to do today. The highlight timetable tells you when something is going to happen. It looks like 9-10.30pm tonight might be a good time to tune in when they do a balloon glow and firework display.