Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • TSA recent failures

    TSA recent failures

    The TSA (or Transportation Security Administration) is in charge in the US of the organization the safe transportation of people in planes and through airports. Unfortunately, either they have a lot of other responsibilities (which is true) and fail at this one (which is also true), or they utterly incompetent at insuring the security of…

  • Green Kingfisher

    Green Kingfisher

      Click on the thumbnails image to enlarge them Green Kingfisher (Chloroceryle americana, Martin-pêcheur vert). Brazil, 2007.

  • The icecap is breaking

    The icecap is breaking

    Call Al Gore, please.

  • Ringed Kingfisher

    Ringed Kingfisher

      Click on the thumbnails image to enlarge them Ringed Kingfisher (Ceryle torquata, Martin-pêcheur à ventre roux). Brazil, 2007.

  • No bird

    No bird

  • A nice battery charger (dual and universal)

    Wouldn’t you be tempted by a battery charger, adaptable to all sources (110V, 220V, 12V car plug), ready to receive simultaneously two battery types, and virtually any kind of photo battery? Delkin Dual Universal Battery Charger does it all. Furthermore, it was designed to receive interface plates for different battery types that, instead of shooting…

  • Boats and arches (illusion)

    Boats and arches (illusion)

    Boats, clouds, arches?

  • Jabiru

    Jabiru

       Click on the thumbnails image to enlarge them

  • AMD/ATI back at the top and bottom of graphics range

    AMD/ATI back at the top and bottom of graphics range

    I waited a little while before reacting and writing, but these recent last weeks we have witnessed an interesting move in the little world of graphics cards. While ATI (now AMD) has recently been relegated to the troublingly systematic position of follower or challenger in the competition for the pockets of PC graphics cards buyers,…