Technology opinions and digital photography
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Kenya safari, visa fees in dollars only
You wanted to go to Kenya for a safari or a photo safari (this will quickly become very fashionable, thanks to the latest Disney movie, “The crimson wings” whose location is Kenyan Tanzanian lake Natron)? You wanted to get your visa in the Nairobi airport after landing (this is much easier than queuing at the…
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 1 All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. … The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at Palais de…
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Stacey Whaley, fractals
Stacey Whaley is a painter using the most modern tools available and depending heavily on the mathematical principles of fractals (those graphical figures that tend to repeat themselves at different scales when you zoom in or zoom out). In most cases, when people follow this path, the result is quite predictable and there are a…
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WordPress 2.7, tomorrow
It is said that the new version of WordPress, the open-source website operating software will arrive tomorrow. It is currently in version beta/RC. It will bring a new greatly improved administration panel. Download from WordPress.org.
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Find your PC weaknesses
Isn’t it somewhat difficult to continuously check the status of security updates for the many software programs we have installed on our PCs, sometimes not even knowing it? Here comes Secunia PSI to help in this daunting task. It permanently observes the version of the programs on your PC and verifies if there is an…
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Big camera?
Certainly! Here comes a photo camera with 1400 mega-pixels. This is the camera installed in Hawai in the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (PanSTARRS) telescope. I say that when Kirkland AFB builds a photo camera, Canon, Nikon, Sony and the others should bow and admire. Source: Really Rocket Science.
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Cheetah’s dinner
The hyenas are not supposed to leave the site whining, but these cheetahs were unusually aggressive. The rest of the story, the explanation and more pictures are available in a photo sequence I published on YLoveBigCats.com. Nota bene: If you want to keep following the publication of my big cat photos, you’d better track regularly…
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WordPress transfer
In the end, transfering a WordPress installation from one server to the next will not have been a simple task. As a matter of fact, moving the files, moving the database, seemed to be the easiest. But I could no longer upload images in WordPress. Here is what I had to do (and you may…
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Mechanical elephant
Andrew Chase designed a strange mechanical elephant. It works, it’s articulted. Weird! Source: Baekdal.com.
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