Technology opinions and digital photography

  • Société Générale nearly crashed the world Stock Exchange

    Société Générale nearly crashed the world Stock Exchange

    Last week was not a quiet river for the world’s Stock Exchange markets. Even if you are not usually in tune with these issues, you could not miss the flow of troubled news: World’s stock markets violently fell in the beginning of last week, leaving most economic and financial observers in very unsure waters. As…

  • S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky, available on Steam download

    S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky, the game prequel to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl (FPS PC game we appreciated a lot last year here at Roumazeilles.net) is now available for download at the Steam video game distribution web site of Valve. More, it will only be available there (no boxed DVD on the shelves). It seems that this…

  • Tatoos or not tatoos

    Tatoos or not tatoos

    Is this really a tatoo? It uses no ink, it uses no needles, it is not permanent, but you cannot wash it. It’s a sun tan drawn using a special shirt to make a nice pattern.

  • Windows XP nagging reboot message

    Windows XP (probably more after upgrade to WinXP SP2) has an unnerving habit of nagging you when it wants to reboot. Not only does it tell you that it wants/needs to reboot your computer, but it will keep opening nagging error message boxes to ask if you want to reboot. My solution is simple: Do…

  • Red-breasted blackbird, female

    Red-breasted blackbird, female

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Red-breasted blackbird (Sturnella militaris, Sturnelle militaire). Brazil, 2007.

  • New year, new style

    As you can see, I enter the new year with a small variation of the style design of Roumazeilles.net. Out are the light reflections on the front of a primary lens (I’m sure that you did recognize this in the circular figure that was ilustrating the top left of this site before, didn’t you?) Here…

  • Ring faucet

    Ring faucet

    A design of Lim Sun Liang that was worth a Red Dot Design Award 2006 for its innovative concept in which water flows magically from a ring cut inside the heart of the faucet. As far as I know, you cannot buy this kind of faucet.

  • Greyish Saltator

    Greyish Saltator

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Greyish Saltator (Saltator coerulescens, Saltator gris). Brazil, 2007.

  • No 5D replacement

    Since we did not see any announcement in today’s press conference from Canon, I suspect that we will have to wait a little more to see a replacement for the Canon EOS 5D.


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