Technology opinions and digital photography
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Why trampoline is dangerous
Source: Neatorama.
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Sony joins the DRM-free crowd
It was about time! I had previously wrote here that Sony was now the last major music company not having announced any plan to offer its music catalog in MP3 format without DRM (without digital rights protection). This is about to change. Sony, like the other disc producers/distributors, finally figured it out: Consumers are actually…
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A Nikon D300 goes to Antartica
Some field tests are more demanding than others. Jan Vermeer and PhotographyBlog brought a Nikon D300 D-SLR to the South of the world: Antartica. Dry, windy and cold. The article is interesting because it speaks about this very special environment and because it makes a good review of the new Nikon nearly-pro digital camera. There…
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Cinnamon-throated Woodcreeper
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Cinnamon-throated Woodcreeper (Dendrexetastes rufigula, Grimpar à collier). Brazil, 2007.
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Green Caiman, Jacare
Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them This caiman is the most common crocodilian in the Pantanal (Brazil). It eats exclusively fish. It is easy to approach it just by walking to it (it lets rodents, birds and men approach very near). Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it And this one…
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Lithium batteries in planes – Sequel
It’s even more complex than I thought initially. It’s not that you cannot put Lithium batteries in your hand luggage if you fly by plane starting 1st of January, 2008. It’s quite the opposite: They don’t want your spare batteries in checked luggage. “Spare batteries” means batteries that are not attached to a device (camera,…
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Upgrade to WordPress 2.3.2
As you may have noticed (because of the unusually long time it took me to do the upgrade), I upgraded Roumazeilles.net to the newest version of WordPress 2.3.2. You should see no significant impact (except some security improvements and in the administration part, if you want to propose an article). But if there is something,…
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Follow the pink dot… green dot
If you follow the movement, all dots are pink. If you concentrate on the central cross, there is a rotating green dot.
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Flight of great egrets
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Great egret (Ardea alba, Grande aigrette). Brazil, 2007.
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