Author Archives: Mark Rainford

Some pruning required

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Right, this will take some time…
Some albums ain’t showing I think either due to a WordPress or a plugin update (mibees both, ahh dinnae ken) it is an easy fix, but aye pffft! So I will take this opportunity to remove some of what I consider rubbish.

So time to do some pruning, some old albums contain a ridiculous amount of photos and uploaded before I cared or knew how to do basic edits. So Individually I will remove albums, re-upoload with fewer photos and obviously edited. Also, I can change the names from the camera defaults to something more descriptive to mibees help with the elusive art of SEO

or, most likely, I will do what I usually do and procrastinate… and never get this finished. 😉
(one album been done already, hopefully more soon)

The Art of Star Wars, Edinburgh 2002

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In 2002 the City Art Center hosted ‘The Art Of Star Wars exhibition’ this had props and costumes from the Star Wars films, up to the then newly released Episode I

I never thought I would uploaded these photos again, before my over complicated back up regime I thought these were most certainly lost; Indeed almost forgotten about! Looking at the rather embarrassing web cache of this site, one stumbled across these photos again – aye, I’m having them back thank you very much!

Honestly the photos are rubbish, with a low resolution of 640*480, taken with I think Olympus digital camera, with a Smart media card, the camera was extremely basic. the photos are certainly unique, Unfortunately there are only a handful. Plus I took them before I cared about taking a decent photo. Must have forgotten to turn the flash off.

  • Stormtrooper - The Art of Star Wars Edinburgh 2002
    Stormtrooper – The Art of Star Wars Edinburgh 2002
  • R2 D2 - The Art of Star Wars Edinburgh 2002
    R2 D2 – The Art of Star Wars Edinburgh 2002
  • R2 D2 - The Art of Star Wars Edinburgh 2002
    R2 D2 – The Art of Star Wars Edinburgh 2002
  • Medical Droid - The Art of Star Wars Edinburgh 2002
    Medical Droid – The Art of Star Wars Edinburgh 2002
  • Darth Vadar - The Art of Star Wars Edinburgh 2002
    Darth Vadar – The Art of Star Wars Edinburgh 2002
  • Boba Fett - The Art of Star Wars Edinburgh 2002
    Boba Fett – The Art of Star Wars Edinburgh 2002
  • C3 P0 - The Art of Star Wars Edinburgh 2002
    C3 P0 – The Art of Star Wars Edinburgh 2002
  • Chewbacca - The Art of Star Wars Edinburgh 2002
    Chewbacca – The Art of Star Wars Edinburgh 2002
  • Darth Maul - The Art of Star Wars Edinburgh 2002
    Darth Maul – The Art of Star Wars Edinburgh 2002
  • Darth Vadar - The Art of Star Wars Edinburgh 2002
    Darth Vadar – The Art of Star Wars Edinburgh 2002
  • Darth Vadar - The Art of Star Wars Edinburgh 2002
    Darth Vadar – The Art of Star Wars Edinburgh 2002

A BBC link to the Exhibition from 10 October, 2001

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Photos from Argyll and Bute
Including – Oban, Kilchurn Castle, Dunstaffnage Castle and Inveraray Castle

Photos from the Highlands
Including Eilean Donan Castle, Glefinnan and Glenfinnan viaduct

Photos From Doune Castle

and Eventually long shot photos from Edinburgh Christmas 2018

  • Doune Castle
    Doune Castle
  • Kilchurn Castle Dalmeny
    Kilchurn Castle Dalmeny
  • Edinburgh Christmas 2018 Mound Tree
    Edinburgh Christmas 2018 Mound Tree
  • Eilean Donan castle
    Eilean Donan castle

New Content… lots of photos

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I’ve added quite a few new photos,

Blackness castle, 5 Photos – A 15th-century fortress, near the village of Blackness, West Lothian
Dirleton Castle, 14 Photos – A 13th century medieval fortress

Anstruther, – 7 Photos – a small town in Fife.
St Andrews Castle, 13 Photos – a castle in St Andrews in Fife.
St Andrews Cathedral, 13 Photos  – a ruined Roman Catholic cathedral in St Andrews, Fife,

Melrose, 6 Photos – A Small town in the Scottish Borders
Melrose Abbey, 17 Photos – Melrose Abbey is a partly ruined monastery of the Cistercian order

Gilberton Cove, 6 Photos – a series of underground passageways and chambers hand carved from sandstone, dating from the 18th century

Daft Terminal Tricks

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Google Maps? Apple Maps? pfffft, I say nae nae!! how about ASCII maps. launch terminal type telnet mapscii.me  (will work on any telnet client that uses xterm)

Ascii Map Europe

Ascii Map Europe

– use A & Z to zoom in and out

Ascii Map Scotland

Ascii Map Scotland

How about the weather?

Still in terminal, use the command finger cityname@graph.no – example finger edinburgh@graph.no

Ascii Terminal Weather

Ascii Terminal Weather

To much time on my hands? maybe! 😉