Friend and photographer Ian Kennedy has just updated fiftymillimeter with archives and thumbnail browsing. Nothing technically groundbreaking, but sometimes the tech isn’t important.

I will be watching the Rangers play their first game that means anything in the last year and a half (or much longer, depending on your definition of ‘means anything’).

Got my most recent order from bookpool yesterday containing lots of good solid reading for the next few weeks. What I saw in the box made me cringe (and wonder if maybe I need some help, heh).

Once I got past the awful blurring which I can kinda deal with coming from a freebie from a tech book distributor, I noticed the aged and ugly markup being used! Its almost as bad as programming tutorials that ‘teach’ you the language by having you explicitly code for bad & embedded markup.

As for the books, the reason for the box arriving in the first place, all was good there:

PHP 5: Your visual blueprint for creating open source, server-side content by an old friend Toby Joe.

Agile Web Development with Rails was in there too, and though I don’t have an immediate need to leave PHP development for Rails the idea of using a good MVC architecture for web applications has always been one I’ve been fond of – even if my first exposure to it was with Java.

And, at the bottom of the box was We The Media, Dan Gilmor’s tome on grassroots journalism.

A familiar name to many, and one of the presenters at the Web Essentials 05 conference in Australia (which I can’t say I have the pleasure of attending) Tantek Çelik has put together and posted for us all to see, use, and pass along, the slide show that accompanied his The Elements of Meaningful XHTML talk.

Opera is Free!

Thats right, and this time its more then a one day “Happy Birthday” stunt.

Yes, you read that right. We’ll say it again: Opera is free. There are no more ads, no more registration, and there has been no better time to try the best browser on the planet. From this point forward, you will be able to download the full Opera browser for free from the standard download page. We hope you are as excited as us about this new release.

Over the years I've had a few licenses, and, even without I didn't mind them much, but it has never been my primary browser or used to the point where they got on my nerves. But Im glad they're doing this, I'm sure there are a pile of folks out there who haven't bothered to download because “why bother when there are good and FREE alternatives” and now they don't have that excuse anymore.