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Mini Metro abuse – it’s all for charidy

My friend Laurence Pitt (and one of his friends) are driving this delightful Mini Metro from London to Prague. Via the Alps.

It’s all for “Charidy Mate” – so go give a few pounds – http://www.justgiving.com/beryl2prague

I’ve been asked a few times which tools I use to build the panoramic pictures.

I use Hugin with autopano-sift for control point generation. I also use enblend for smooth blending.

There is a great manual online now at the Hugin Wiki – http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin

I spent some time this morning on the forums for the ZCM open beta.

A frequent comment is regarding downloading the ZCM ISO – it’s 4GB in size.

I recommend testing the md5 hash – I use Digest IT 2004.

I wrote last year about the 3M Privacy Filters; I’ve not worked with my laptop and confidential data on a flight in over three years.

I recently purchased the filters for my team; I must say I am impressed. They are unobtrusive – and really work.

Somehow my PGP passphrase got corrupted; there’s no way back.

PGP support tried – but my brick of a laptop needs a rebuild.

I was disappointed at how seemingly fragile the passphrase piece is; the support guy at PGP said he’d never seen it before.

Hmm.

Back to a new build; if it happens again I’ll be somewhat upset..