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  • RIAA says “Jail the ghost!”

    Gertrude Walton is probably not the last person and certainly not the first to be facing the wrath of the RIAA while this association fights against music pirates. She is a bit unusual in the sense that she is an 80-year old Granny and stands accused of downloading 700 songs off peer-to-peer (P2P) networks under…

  • Portable phones allowed in plane! more or less…

    It’s been years that flight attendants repeat to bored flight passengers that portable phones should be switched off during the flight because they may interfere with navigation equipment of the plane. Also, it’s been years that Boeing and Airbus tested this hypothesis and found no risk at all. But nobody wants to take the risk…

  • Inkjet paper weight: Hand, weight, etc.

    All inkjet papers were not born equal. Not even all papers. Far from the surface quality, one of the characteristics easiest to evaluate and most important to appreciate a good paper is its weight. But quite often you will hear paper industry specialists and printing experts speaking about the paper’s hand. What is this and…

  • Sony, it will be alpha

    Sony just announced the name of its new/future range of Digital Single Lens Reflex (D-SLR) cameras. This is a minor surprise since they reuse the brand previously used by Minolta and Konica-Minolta in the Japanese market: Alpha. Minolta used Maxxum in the US and Dynax in Europe, but Sony seems to be shooting for one…

  • RawDrop – optimal configuration for nice photos

    RawDrop – optimal configuration for nice photos

    It’s bit quite a bit of time that I repeat I use RawDrop as my prefered tool to convert RAW images produced by my Dynax 7D into TIF files. But some wondered what configuration I use. There are not a zillion options in RawDrop, but to obtain a clean result, it’s easier not to fool…

  • Eye of the cat

    Eye of the cat

    As all cats, felines from the Masai Mara National Park (Kenya) have fascinating eyes.

  • Need more traffic, do not pay for site submission

    There is a deafening advertisment flood to increase your web site traffic. This looks like snake oil to me: Need more traffic, xxx$ for site submission.

  • Masai Mara – Hippopotamus

    Masai Mara – Hippopotamus

    Hippopotamus are large herbivorous from the same family as the horse. they seem quite peaceful but have a lot of available energy (and a considerable mass). Even if it is possible to encounter them out of water during the day, they prefer to avoid sun shine (they risk dying from sun exposure) and only eat…

  • The best answer to the “What I’m doing with my life” question

    I plan on living forever. So far, so good.

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