I am back from a perfect holiday in Canada. Photos can be found here.
I am back from a perfect holiday in Canada. Photos can be found here.
Back from beautiful country Vietnam and of course updated the photo section of this site.
There is only one week between this picture and the one below.... The trick is of course the invention of the aeroplane, which enabled me to make a trip to Egypt, a wonderful country. See more soon in my photo section of this site.
Anyway, good 2008 to everyone!
From a snowy Leiden I wish you pleasant holidays and a good 2008!
Last saturday I lost/gained another year depending on your worldview.
Anyway, had a good day between the apes.
Back from a nice holiday. Photos are updated.
During some longer than normal train travelling I had time to rework some site bits. Permalink code is rewritten, pages are now integrated into my journal and the archive navigation is date based. Tag support is added to site and feeds
Also I added photos from an autumn week in Morocco. This trip is really recommended in october.
Back from my holiday in Belgium and Luxembourg. I had a good time, turned 30; now I am trying to get back to business.
Back
from a long week Andalusia. It took me a while to get used to the weather (dropping from 27 C to -2
C!) and updating this page. The atmosphere (and the trip) were great. Nature was beautiful (where
can I donate for bringing mountains to Holland ;-) and the (medieval) buildings special (especially the
mix between christian and moorish architecture). The romans also had discovered the good weather
and fertile ground early and left lots of trails (some villages still have a roman ground-map and
small white 3-level 'concrete flats').
Just before I left, I bought a new Canon 350D. One of the most mainstream (SLR) camera's. I had some positive experience with the analog version and reviews of the digital thing were ok. I am very happy with it. It works fine with gphoto2. (Sorry for the analog camera lovers).
These two items combined gives some new photo albums on this site. Enjoy.
Turned 29 at what the hack. I really enjoyed this event, hopefully I have some code to release soon. You can see at these pictures what the atmosphere was like.
As promised in this post, I added scanned photos to my photogallery. Therefore I bought a scanner: the Epson Perfection 2480, which works like a charm on linux. With thanks to the sane project, installation was easy (for people living in my strange universe):
find /cdrom -name "*.cab" -exec cabextract -l {} 2>/dev/null; \
| grep -B 10 Esfw
cabextract -F Esfw* -p ./ESCAN/ModUsd.cab > /etc/sane//Esfw41.bin
I also promised a mod_rewrite patch for o.r.i.g.i.n.a.l. which is now finished. I will release it when the slideshow feature is ready. Also I wrote some mod_rewrite voodoo for the main site, which enabled me to provide proper permalinks, instead of the previous erroneous ones.
Only two todo's left:
As you
perhaps have noticed, I added a new link under journal in the right
menu, called photos. Finally I have consolidated my
photo albums Before I had several albums on topic (njbg, travel, korvezee,
etc.). The main njbg album is now at the
njbg site, the korvezee albums are in my album and the travel albums from
other peoples deleted...
Although the gallery is popular software, I do not like it anymore. It has too much code and features I do not need. I prefer to provide comments and do all resizing etc. myself with vim and image-magick and have the gallery software only do the display work. Luckily jimmac wrote a nice piece of software called o.r.i.g.i.n.a.l. It works and is very hackable. I do plan to port the gallery's mod_rewrite (providing useful url's) and slideshow features to my new photo album, but at this moment I think it is good enough to link.
Now I have a real good excuse to buy a nice digital camera and a scanner. I have lots of good old analog pictures to be added and it is weak to have stolen (but credited) so much pictures from people who do already own a digital camera.
The dark color is a bit in contrast with the rest of my site, but photo's look just better on a dark background.
I am back from my holiday trip to Tanzania; pictures will later be present at this location. In the peaceful presence of mother Anna, I also became 28 winters (or is it summers?, damn southern hemisphere) young.
Vorm.net was down for a week. My apologies.. I was on a holiday in Leiden, and left my server with a missing configuration file.
Nevertheless I had a nice week with lots of sun, a good excavation and kind young people who are hopefully now better archeologists. Pictures of this week can be found in the NJBG photoalbum.