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I was reading (as one does) my copy of Thomas Harwood’s Grecian Antiquities from 1801, when I came across some small papers and a flower, pressed between the pages. One of the papers appears to be a fragment of an envelo

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The HTML 5 draft has the idea that, in HTML, certain elements can automatically introduce a new default namespace. Currently these elments are html, svg and math, although it’s easy to imagine others being added in the f

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About two and a half years ago I got my first digital single-lens reflex camera (a dSLR, or digital SLR), having used a point-and-shoot consumer-level Casio digital camera for several years, and a similar Canon point-and

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OK, So you scanned a colour image, and you’ve got lots of little dots: colour image as scanned (detail) There are three things I’ll need to do to make this image useful: smooth out all those dots, scale down the image, a

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How to scan colour images from old books, with Gimp, in 18 easy steps. Some people report that a piece of opaque green paper placed behind the page will help reduce show-through; either that or black card seems to help.

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I decided it was time to have a single home for blogging/writing and not multiple social networking sites. I’ll also be moving over my XML-related blog entries from W3C.

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