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Month: May 2007

  • South Africa: AIDS plan, at last

    South Africa is a country suffering a lot from AIDS. The HIV virus is present in too large a part of the population, even more if we think about the advanced economy of this African country. But up to now, the government was doing nothing, or nearly nothing. This is changing with the announcement of…

  • Life is hard for insects too

    Life is hard for insects too

    Life is a competition: Eat or be eaten. This happens to insects on the neck of a giraffe, too. Insect, bird and giraffe(Click on the thumbnails to see the larger image)

  • Invisible made visible with the SD14

    The Digital Single Lens Reflex (DLSR) camera SD14 from Sigma is very interesting for the enthusiast amateur of Infra-Red (IR) photo: It has an easily removable IR-rejection filter. This is because Sigma wanted to ease the access to the sensor (and its cleaning operations) but it also brings an easy way to convert in minutes…

  • 10 reasons it doesn’t pay to be “The Computer Guy”

    Shaun Boyd is too clairvoyant about being “The Computer Guy”. Yes! This is more than often a bad idea. And he gives the 10 reasons why. Aren’t we all staying hooked on the phone to help repair a computer we’d just like to see blown to pieces? Some would add: “Don’t tell my mother that…

  • Leopards in South Africa

    Leopards in South Africa

    After presenting you images of many wild animals, here come those we were specially coming to meet in South Africa: Leopards. Young male Leopard in a treeHe was eating an impala up there Young male Leopard in a treeHis name is Matimba and he still hunts with Safari, his mother Lying leopard, yawningImpressive display of…

  • Top 10 anti-censorship methods

    More and more often, accessing the Internet becomes limited by the presence of censoring tools and methods (and I am not speaking of those countries where this has been institutionalized like China, Iran or Tunisia). It may be to avoid your spending too much time idling instead of working or it may be to ensure…

  • Birds of South Africa

    Birds of South Africa

    God created Africa with a billion birds. So, a photo safari specializing into leopards will naturally stop to shoot images of a vulture, an eagle, or -more discreet- a roller: Pied Kingfisher Woodpecker in black & white African Hoopoe Lilac-breasted roller Lilac-breasted roller Some glossy starling I could not identify precisely(Rueppell’s Glossy-Starling?) Lappet-faced vulture Brown…

  • 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0, prohibited number

    Since the AACS (the protection of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray against copying) is technically broken, there was only one lock left: after unlocking tools, there was the need for the publication of the needed key to allow easy operation. The MPAA tries to ban this famous key number from the Internet while it keeps popping up…

  • South African lizard

    South African lizard

    This 1st of May is reason for celebration of work (or is it workers celebration? :-)) So, let’s look at one of animals most associated with not working: The lizard, spending endless hours lying on rocks in the sun. Lizard in the sun Lizards in the sun(Click on the thumbnails to see the larger image)