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Roodpetje on PhotoBlog
Bas De Meijer is a freelance photographer. But in blogging land Bas is known as Rood petje. His famous blog 'Rood petje' (in Dutch) is being followed by many bloggers for its good links. Bas is also an editor at FOTO Magazine and since some days, Rood petje launched an English version on PhotoBlog on our request.
A blog to have in your favorites for good inspiration and splendid links: Bas De Meijers PhotoBlog
Posted on August 1, 2004
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Interview with
©BadHairBoy
And we start of in grandeur, interviewing BadHairBoy. His passport features Stijn Van Kerckhove, pure fetish, even in real life he goes by the name BHB. Believe The Hype, BHB's personal website is a must-visit, v2 will be launched soon, stay glued. Stijn is not a photographer by education, but the living proof that some people are born with pure talent; Stijn did his first hipshot when he was born in a Ghent hospital; more than ever this Lomo Sapiens Xprocesses life every day.
His wall of fame is impressive: 9 picture of the days. We are dying to know the number of visitors this star gets a day....
Read the man behind the camera.
Your Interviewer
Posted on August 1, 2004
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Komkommertijd syndroom.
Zondagskrant onthult Handtasmysterie van Hare Koninklijke Hoogheid.
Groot-Brittannië kent een ware komkommertijd: het grote nieuws van de dag is nu de inhoud van de handtas van de Queen. En die stelt letterlijk niets voor.
De royal handbag bevat immers, zo toont de Mail on Sunday met een heuse foto als bewijsmateriaal aan, niets.
Grinning.
Dit is wat ze noemen 'komkommertijd'...
Posted on August 1, 2004
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Biking
I went biking today.
Yep. Decided that it was too long ago that I did it -I used to go every week twice to keep in shape, that must have been 4 years ago now...-
So off I went. Decided that I would go to Grammont, to visit my grandparents -it is about 15 km, but only UP-
After this crazy idea, senses came to me and I would go closer, to my father.
It is funny when we come to think about it, seldom, we, Westerners, go somewhere withour a reason. We make plans, head towards something. We don't seem to wander around -and the times I do, I get crazy of walking slow...-
In Saoudi Westerners are teached to dress up, but more, to act as if they don't want to go anywhere, because, according to locals, even disguised Westerners can be recognized, only by their way of walking.
Anyhow, off I went. After 20 min and in the next village, I realized my condition wasn't as it was supposed to be.
A break was urgently needed. Shit no money... So no drinks
A phonecall to my father also revealed that he wasn't at home.
I had to get another 'goal'.
And then, I guess, it must have been the sun that hit me, or something else, anyhow, I decided to go to the 'Bosberg' a hill climbed in the 'Tour de Flandres' and known for its steep climbing.
I wanted to get there and get back.
And yes, I took the other way around, but forgot that also the other way around is getting up hill...
Aiaiai.
The funny thing was, I was dead already on half of the climb, but the stubborn thing inside my head just doesn't want to stop. I have to do it.
It is all or nothing, and today it would be all.
It has been like that always: all or nothing.
Hours later, after being lost -don't ask me- and getting red like a tomato, I am home.
I guess tomorrow I won't feel my butt...
Posted on August 2, 2004
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In my soup...
Posted on August 2, 2004
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how hot does it get in Iraq?
Well, I left a dozen eggs I bought in the local market in the car for day and forgot them. Well, my driver brought them to me the next day and they were softboiled from the heat. That’s how hot it gets here.
[from Back to Iraq 3.0]
Posted on August 3, 2004
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The difference between cultures
When my computer broke down in Israel -my screen faded from one moment to another- and I brought it to the repair service, they claimed that my guarantee was not valid, saying that the repair would cost me between 500 and 800$ and it would take them 3 weeks.
They said I dropped my computer -which I didn't-
I disagreed, begged, screamed, saying the truth: this computer had no reason to be NOT under guarantee.
My friends started to doubt me because of the convincing tone of the guy at the repair desk.
I refused to give in and had to scream again to get my computer back.
So, they gave it back, and I continued to work in difficult circumstances, connecting my computer to an external screen.
After arriving in Belgium, I gave the computer in at a repairdesk in Brussels, explained the thing, and giving in the invoice to proove the guarantee.
A week later I have my computer back, without any problems, fixed.
The costs? 0 euro.
Thank you very much ARC Dilbeek.
Posted on August 3, 2004
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Ashcroft orders public libraries to destroy law books
The Justice Department is ordering public libraries to destroy certain books it has deemed not "appropriate for external use."
The Department of Justice has called for these five public documents, two of which are texts of federal statutes, to be removed from depository libraries and destroyed, making their content available only to those with access to a law office or law library.The topics addressed in the named documents include information on how citizens can retrieve items that may have been confiscated by the government during an investigation. The documents to be removed and destroyed include: Civil and Criminal Forfeiture Procedure; Select Criminal Forfeiture Forms; Select Federal Asset Forfeiture Statutes; Asset forfeiture and money laundering resource directory; and Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (CAFRA).
Link
[through Boing Boing]
Yep, in America.
Posted on August 3, 2004
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Broadcast...
TO me the internet has a very logical evolution.
From showing, and very passive content, the evolution is going to interaction -for example through blogging with its comments and usergroups-
But the end result will be a far more 'interactive place' than we can imagine now.
Sharing pictures is one thing.
The next big thing evolving is sharing music.
I have been looking for good software that could share -in its first version iTunes could broadcast, but it was quickly finished with the Apple Music Store opening-
Anyhow today I found NetCast. It might be my solution. Although for 40 box, not so cheap. -The most important stuff is to find other that share too...-
The life broadcast is nice, but I like more the fact that I can access my music collection anywhere.
Tunes At Work has this feature too.
You can browse through somebodies list on a different place, without downloading it.
But I am still figuring out how I can activate all this stuff behind a NAT-server...
From that moment on, whenever you want to browse into my playing list, without having to download everything... just try to get me to give you a password ;)
Posted on August 3, 2004
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Iraq abuse photos 'taken for fun'
A female US soldier told investigators that photos of prisoner abuse in Iraq were taken "for fun", a court hears.
[from BBC News]
I guess the world is shocked.
But this is what the press highlights. The shocking thing gets attention.
The real why behind the question is slightly getting on the background.
Was it only fun, or did somebody ordered to do so? To me that is the real question, that gets erased little by little.
What I keep in mind is this article of Susan Sonntag -published in March this year-.
Looking at these photographs, you ask yourself, How can someone grin at the sufferings and humiliation of another human being? Set guard dogs at the genitals and legs of cowering naked prisoners? Force shackled, hooded prisoners to masturbate or simulate oral sex with one another? And you feel naive for asking, since the answer is, self-evidently, People do these things to other people. Rape and pain inflicted on the genitals are among the most common forms of torture. Not just in Nazi concentration camps and in Abu Ghraib when it was run by Saddam Hussein. Americans, too, have done and do them when they are told, or made to feel, that those over whom they have absolute power deserve to be humiliated, tormented. They do them when they are led to believe that the people they are torturing belong to an inferior race or religion. For the meaning of these pictures is not just that these acts were performed, but that their perpetrators apparently had no sense that there was anything wrong in what the pictures show.
Even more appalling, since the pictures were meant to be circulated and seen by many people: it was all fun. And this idea of fun is, alas, more and more -- contrary to what President Bush is telling the world -- part of ''the true nature and heart of America.'' It is hard to measure the increasing acceptance of brutality in American life, but its evidence is everywhere, starting with the video games of killing that are a principal entertainment of boys -- can the video game ''Interrogating the Terrorists'' really be far behind? -- and on to the violence that has become endemic in the group rites of youth on an exuberant kick. Violent crime is down, yet the easy delight taken in violence seems to have grown. From the harsh torments inflicted on incoming students in many American suburban high schools -- depicted in Richard Linklater's 1993 film, ''Dazed and Confused'' -- to the hazing rituals of physical brutality and sexual humiliation in college fraternities and on sports teams, America has become a country in which the fantasies and the practice of violence are seen as good entertainment, fun.
What formerly was segregated as pornography, as the exercise of extreme sadomasochistic longings -- as in Pier Paolo Pasolini's last, near-unwatchable film, ''Salo'' (1975), depicting orgies of torture in the Fascist redoubt in northern Italy at the end of the Mussolini era -- is now being normalized, by some, as high-spirited play or venting. To ''stack naked men'' is like a college fraternity prank, said a caller to Rush Limbaugh and the many millions of Americans who listen to his radio show. Had the caller, one wonders, seen the photographs? No matter. The observation -- or is it the fantasy? -- was on the mark. What may still be capable of shocking some Americans was Limbaugh's response: ''Exactly!'' he exclaimed. ''Exactly my point. This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation, and we're going to ruin people's lives over it, and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time.'' ''They'' are the American soldiers, the torturers. And Limbaugh went on: ''You know, these people are being fired at every day. I'm talking about people having a good time, these people. You ever heard of emotional release?''
Posted on August 4, 2004
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Questions to Mr Deckmyn
-How many times does a journalist 'Foreign News' goes abroad to check the situation on the countries he is writing on? You should ask one of your collegues...
-On which sources do journalists base their info? -Yep, indeed, on the telex that runs in the news.-
-On which info do you check your articles? Ever doubted them?
-Who decides the importance of news? And how comes it is almost everywhere the same? (Did you ever read Jaap van Ginniken, “De schepping van de wereld in het nieuws”, 1996, Houten/Diegem
(creation of the world in the news))
-Did you ever check the meaning of the word 'journalist'?
Main Entry: jour·nal·ist
Pronunciation: -n&l-ist
Function: noun
1 a : a person engaged in journalism; especially : a writer or editor for a news medium b : a writer who aims at a mass audience
2 : a person who keeps a journal
Instead of attacking the blogger -in which I truly see a difference with a journalist- people should cooperate and work together.
See the added value.
I think some bloggers can make veryvery good journalists.
And vice-versa.
Give a more personal vision of the news sometimes wouldn't do bad. Give the impersonal a face.
Because behind all those facts there is a world which isn't shown in the news.
Reach beyond the drama...
I have lived 2 years in Israel and moved back and forward to the Occupied Territories.
I can assure you that the news never gave a right vision on it. It only highlights the drama.
A pity.
Posted on August 4, 2004
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Belgium mourns gas blast victims
Belgium is holding a national day of mourning for those who died in Friday's gas explosion near the town of Ath.
[from BBC News]
Are we sad? Yep, like every where else in the world when they think of drama's like this. But does it make us act differently?
I don't believe so.
Today I am going to Ikea. That is just reality...
Posted on August 4, 2004
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Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson dies
Legendary French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson died Monday at the age of 95 in the South of France.
Some web resources: his Foundation, Photology, Tete a Tete. Among his great works were portraits of Matisse, Bonnard, Braque, Rouault, Claudel (at the end of the Second World War).
(Merci, Jean-Luc, who adds "His foundation website is so slow at the moment because just about everyone online in France is hitting it right now.")
[through Boing Boing]
Posted on August 5, 2004
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The importance of protecting your Wifi connection
As said before, I finally have my small pBook back, brought it to Gent, in the appartment of my sis.
If she has broadband? Nope... And her internet connection is one that is secured by herself. -read password protected, and me not knowing her password-
And yet, I am on the internet now, ain't I?
Wireless internet.... The neighbour seems to have a connection.
Sitting near the balcony, and my airport is catching the waves.
For an investment of 150 euro -or much less- my sis would have free internet... -Hey sis, what are you waiting for?-
Or, a hacker could use this internet connection and hack into something, disconnect and then the owner of the line would be the accused.
The matrix is getting real.
Posted on August 5, 2004
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Meet and fish
Being in the Middle East and seeing the strange evolution of a right winged party in the government and its consequences, scares me.
Only 100 km further and seeing the influence of muslim fundamentalism, shocks me, and again, scares me.
Hearing that people in the street are attacked because of their religion or nationality, or kind of relationship they prefer, scares me.
Seeing the results of an election resulting in 25% of the people voting right wing scares me.
You ask me my opinion?
I believe that a right winged government is wrong. Because it will state things one way, but the real meaning is different. I believe I saw such things with my own eyes in a democratic country.
I believe that people are fighting against a demographic evolution, not only in Israel but also here.
Israel fears -finally after all those years- that not the terror but the demographic growth might be a danger to their existence. -Demographic growth of the Palestinians, this is.-
They are right.
It will be the same evolution here. Within years, there will be more '2nd/3rd/4th generation immigrants (from moslim countries)' then natives. Why? Simple...
It is natural and yet maybe scary.
Scary why? Because of the idea that maybe they might urge others to follow their believe.
I think it won't come this far.
There is a break somehow with their origins.
Many of these new immigrants came here because of the hope for a better future, the Western dream.
The Western dream is fake, because there is no life like Dallas, nor like Baywatch, and neither comes the money for free.
The Western dream is real, when it comes to the fact that you can work and make a living, become middle class rich.
I don't believe many of them want to return to the limitation of freedom.
So why are we scared?
Because they take our work?
Because of an economic slow down? -What is 12% unemployment compared to 60% in for example Gaza?-
Yep, of course the world is coming to get us...
Did we ever believe that we, lucky ones, could run away with all the resources of the world, and leave the rest without anything?
Will we ever be prepared to 'share' that reaches beyond 'giving some money to Medecins Without Borders'?
Some talks have to do with exchanging ideas, I guess the one I had today had a lot to do with telling a story, and through the story suddenly see the links, because you spoke them out loud.
Seldom you have the chance of meeting somebody who really understands what you are talking about, who is on the same wave length of conversation, and shares similar but not always evident views.
If Orkut was good for one thing for me, it might have been for this meeting.
Posted on August 5, 2004
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Extract out of paper
I believe that in the future these -blogging- newssources will gain more importance, the journalist will not longer be an unknown person, but turns into a person.
This personalisation is important, because it will be the main hold on to the truth.
Whereas we get lost in a web of information, not knowing what is true and what not, or what the sources are, this hold on to a person, from which you seem to know something, will become your reference.
As I am writing this, the first bloggers are allowed to offically be part of the election-convention hold in USA. Many journalists are surprised, but slowly the blogging world with its implications is becoming another standard in the internet and media world.
What is today a still no more than a strange word, will be common knowledge in short time.
A database of information is being written on personal blogs and as much pictures are being posted on as many blogs.
Some of them truthfully, others totally fiction.
Knowledge on subjects is no longer based upon what the news tells, but also on what google can give you on the subject, very often referring to blogs.
Other linkages, made into the blogging or found through searchengines gives us more info on the matter, widening our view.
Recent numbers and researches tell us that people look on the web for news.
This knowledge might change the perception of news and images totally.
Posted on August 5, 2004
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The importance of communities
Apple Fans Pull for Jobs
News of Steve Jobs' cancer surgery has unsettled the Mac community like nothing else in recent years, resulting in a flood of forum postings and get-well cards.
I picked this from a news source, and it is very relevant to some ideas I have recently:
The importance of a group and its odd formalities, and sociological occurence.
Myself, I belong to several 'groups'
And I started to think the first time of its oddity when driving my motorcycle.
Who doesn't know the bikers, always saying hello to each other. And yet, under the helmet of the other biker might be hidden a personality that wouldn't fit in my life, that might fight all my ideas.
To put it into the strangest contradictions: a right winged guy might say hello to a lesbian girl, just because they are bikers.
And this guy will even help this girl any time, just because they are bikers.
It is the strange bound of a group.
The same thing happens with gay people, or to foreigners from the same nationality abroad, or the corporate businesses like Randstad, or to many other existing groups: they will always help each other.
PhotoBlog is the perfect example of such a 'group' online.
These groups become more and more important.
The funny thing is that by being in a group the other group seems to be forgotten. As is the example: the gay girl and the right winged man, in other groups they belong to they would fight eachother.
The importance of the group* can not be underestimated.
And I believe that in the near future it will gain more importance.
An interesting research can be found here
The key elements in this definition of community are that:
* you believe you belong, you are a member
* they involve meaningful social interaction
* there is a belief in 'common ties' or shared beliefs between members
* people 'share time' with each other
Should do some more research though...
(*A group is something different than a network)
Posted on August 5, 2004
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Israel Plans Settlement Expansion, Defying U.S.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has begun work on a major expansion of its biggest West Bank settlement in a move certain to draw concern from a visiting White House envoy on Thursday, officials said.
[out of Reuters: Top News]
Yep, you read it right: EXPANSION.
When talking to the Palestinians in West Bank, this was there mere concern: pulling out of Gaza would have consequences for them, they believed.
These concerns turn out pretty in place.
The news shows only fragments of what is really happening, because many of the things are done in such a way that it is no news.
But in the end the evolution is worrying.
Posted on August 5, 2004
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nation building
I'm hovering for a while now over the term "nation building" and the importance of "creating" states from scratch that has arised in the recent past in Iraq and Afghanistan. For me this term not only covers Iraq but the many countries that have made their way from white spots on the map to successful economies that include success stories like Dubai, Singapore, Taiwan, Estonia, Czechoslovakia or Slovenijia.
In my view building up a state (well a small one) is besides much political theatre the same task as building up a company. The basics of a successful state are really much easier than often discussed. Good and simple laws, good execution of law, valuing entrepreneurship and economic freedom are not such a difficult task. Clearly nation building goes over a long-term and can never be as straightforward as in a hierarchical company but it's much easier as often thought.
My personal expectation is that nation building will be a task that we will see much more often than before 1990. Many countries of the former Soviet side of the iron curtain have already seen a sweeping change but many countries in the Middle East and Africa will have the chance to recover from being a failed state.
Getting good material on nation building has been a difficult task for me, but now I found a great piece the Andrew from Reuven Brenner. Reuven has introduced a new angle describing nations with/ without success. He uses the "mobile society" for showcasing the pragmatic and flexible on one side and the "immobile society" on the other.
"It is easy to criticize both grandiose thesis and narrow ones. To come up with a different way of perceiving the events and offer solutions is a bit harder. Yet this brief does just that. It shows that today's conflict between Islamic groups and the West, as well as within Islamic societies, can be viewed as one between "mobile" and "immobile" civilizations, whose members can be found in every society. What distinguishes the US is that it has far more people sharing the outlook of a "mobile civilization" than any other country. And what characterizes many Islamic countries is that they have a large number of people sharing the values of an "immobile" civilization. "Relativist" orthodoxy notwithstanding, one point I make is that although one can understand the values and ideals of "immobile societies", as fitting certain situations, there cannot be a compromise between these two civilizations. Today's circumstances - demographic in particular - require moves toward "mobility".
I guess our politicians might be interested in this book as well.
Posted on August 5, 2004
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what's a VC?
"Venture capitalists are chickens. Compared to entrepreneurs they're spectators in the great game of small business hardball. They would no sooner personally guarantee a corporate bank loan than they would jump off the cliffs of Acapulco. Contrary to popular opinion, however, they are not totally worthless - they work long hours, sift through more garbage than a trash collector, and have to get used to disappointing 99 entrepreneurs for every one they please. They are veteran roller coaster riders, but never get used to those big drops. They are, above all else, risk reducers - they prospect in the land of the commercially unfinanceable, and try to differentiate the superstars from the merely enthusiastic. Most of them are pretty good at it, a result of lessons learned, mistakes made, and successes observed."
"They have a true understanding of the importance of cash flow. Ask any gathering of entrepreneurs whether they understand that cash is life and there will be nods all around. Then ask them whether they also understand that lack of cash is DEATH and the blood drains out of their faces. A fellow venture capitalist I know describes a start-up venture as "a race against insolvency," and he is right. The best entrepreneurs equate cash with blood, and part with it only when it stands to directly further their objectives."
[from TJ's Weblog]
Reminds me of someone. ;)
Posted on August 5, 2004
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Skyping through the world
"In a server-less environment, you can increase in size indefinitely without adding cost," Frost & Sullivan analyst Jon Arnold said. "That's a scary proposition if you're a phone company."
Posted on August 5, 2004
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Living in 1954 for 10 days
How much has technology really changed our daily lives? We asked a highly wired writer to spend 10 days in the big city living with the technology of 50 years ago. No Web, no cell, no laptop, no ATM card.
by Larry Smith
Read it here
Posted on August 5, 2004
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News as a Visual Map
NewsIsFree's NewsMap can quickly tell me what's the hottest story of the day.
It is an amazing view on the worlds news, and immediately we see how the news is being reproduced over and over in different places.
An interesting view on news, giving us quick access to less know places.
To follow up.
Posted on August 6, 2004
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ANP gaat amateur-foto's verspreiden
[04-08-2004] Het persbureau ANP gaat zijn dagelijks aanbod verruimen met foto's die door amateurs zijn gemaakt. Het ANP heeft daarover een afspraak gemaakt met de nieuws-site Nu.nl, dat al een tijdje bezoekers oproept om interessant geachte foto's op te sturen. Een selectie daaruit wordt gepubliceerd op de site.
• Om een indruk van het soort beelden te geven: nu.nl
Posted on August 6, 2004
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Aerial
It could have been something beautiful, and maybe graphically it is. Yet reality is different.
This is a picture of Auschwitz taken on the 23rd August 1944 by 60 Squadron RAF.
Gliders West of Wolfhezen
More of WOII pics can be found here
Posted on August 6, 2004
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Oops...
Wonderful commercial in the streets...
Posted on August 6, 2004
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Why documentaries are 'hot'
According to recent sources, documentaries are hot topic. Probably after the heat of 'Fahrenheit 9/11' and his 100 million dollar profit, movie makers realize it is possible.
Recent research says that the viewer wants more real documentary because he is tired of the so-called human interest
Maybe there is hope after all.
The question is if they will be meant controversial like Moores or just looking for the truth.
Posted on August 7, 2004
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Heatwave on the way
Our national weather forecast predicts rain and thunder, our television women -which bases her knowledge on the same observations- predicts sunny hot weather (we suspect her to send the people to the seaside, where the sector is complaining of a bad month of july).
Anyhow, after 10 days of reaching the Ozon limit, plan 2 of the heat emmergency plan is announced on TV. (Our minister of health has invented thse plans after the heat wave of last year, and 1500 elderly that died because of no precautions.)
From today on, all the old people have to drink loads of water -eve if they don't want to ;) and are being watched with more care, and meanwhile the union of airco installers is asking for 180 installers (each year only 20 graduate).
I am grinning.
We are becoming the Middle East...
In some hours, I'll take my motorcycle and forget what they say on the news, I'll just enjoy the sun.
Posted on August 7, 2004
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Phone Call from Far Away
'Booooker tov'
She yells in my ear. Not yet really awake, I recognize.
She seems happy and life is indeed changing.
Must be the windows, I always say bright windows give a view on a bright life.
Must have been one of the most beautiful wake up calls I ever had.
When phone calls are nice: when the phone you get is unexpected, and the person on the other line is one you like a lot and didn't hear for a long time.
Considering to unable the caller identity on my phone...
Good Morning Tel Aviv!
Posted on August 7, 2004
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Quote of the week
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we"
by ... Bush
Grinning...
Posted on August 7, 2004
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Prozac 'found in drinking water'
An Environment Agency report says the antidepressant drug Prozac has been found in the UK's drinking water.
Soon we'll live in a happy world. ;)
[from BBC News]
Posted on August 8, 2004
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Paper sent
Do you know the feeling that something is never finished? That you have to keep on adding.
My paper is such a thing.
I had to add, and add. But only 15-20 pages were allowed. After a talk with my prof. I was allowed to send in more. I made the font smaller ;) and sent in 26 pages. (Give me a break, on new developments in the digital photography, I can write 100 pages...)
Cross fingers for the comments.
Posted on August 8, 2004
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Innocence?
Posted on August 8, 2004
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A webblog tools market analysis
Here is an interesting blog tools market analysis. This study is based on the number of URLs and quotes of the tools in Google.
Posted on August 9, 2004
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Picture what matters
Yahoo's "Picture what matters" contest has you upload pictures about socially conscious issues.
Does the environment matter to you? Show us a picture of your local parks or landfills.
Do your friends matter to you? Take a picture of your best friends.
Do video games matter most to you? Why not show off your collection?
It's often said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Yahoo!'s Picture What Matters contest is putting that phrase to the test by giving people across the country a chance to share photos of what matters to them with the world.
The winner gets to donate $10G's to the charity of their choice.
Editor's note (rael): I know I'm late in posting this. The competition runs only until August 11th, so get your entries in now!
[from MobileWhack]
Posted on August 9, 2004
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Quote of the week.
"I recently paid more for my cell phone, than I did for my PC."
(Ouch! Explains why Microsoft and Intel are desperate to get into the "mobility" business, albeit with little success. )
Posted on August 9, 2004
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Blogs in Education
“Blogs…have quickly caught on in the education field, giving scholars an opportunity to share their ideas in a dedicated, spam-free stream of information.”
[through Lockergnome's RSS Resource]
Why am I not surprised? SnowBlog wasn't the first and won't be the last...
Posted on August 9, 2004
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Heatwave arrived...
Pufpufpufpufpfffffffffffff :)
Posted on August 9, 2004
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Oil prices surge to record highs
The price of crude oil continues its surge to record levels after output was halted in Iraq's southern oilfields amid the threat of sabotage.
[through BBC News]
Remark:
-This happens of course after the major oil magnates in US have set their deals
-Prices can not stay as cheap as they were, oil experts say that by gaining the oil of Iraq, the problem is only delayed by 10 years, not even considering the higher needs of the Chinese.
Alternatives have to be found urgently.
As said before: the wealth we are living today won't last forever. 95% of the people is paying for it, while we have it.
Posted on August 10, 2004
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Quote of the week
"What can you learn from History? Very little... History was written with red ink, wth bloodshed. We should educate our children how to imagine, not how to remember."
by Shimon Peres
Posted on August 10, 2004
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Mac OS X 10.3.5 update
Mac OS 10.3.5 is just released and has a number of interesting items in it.
What do you think about the built-in Bluetooth Remote Control functionality. Your mobile becomes your remote control for PowerPoint, KeyNote and iTunes. What about that!
Finally a good reason to buy a Bluetooth phone...
In coop with Salling Clicker.
Posted on August 10, 2004
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RSS feeds of keyword-tagged photos
Flickr "tags" are user-created keywords that describe their photos. If two or more users hit on (or agree upon) the same tags, all photos with a common tag are grouped together. That's pretty cool -- a kind of Wiki-style serindipitous metadata thing. What's cooler is that every tag automatically gets an RSS feed, so that you can watch all the photos tagged with "cuba" or "outdoor" or "red" in your RSS reader, getting alerts every time a new one comes along. Here's the 100 most popular tags in Flickr -- click each for a link to its RSS feeds (bigger words in the list represent more-popular tags).
Link
Update: Joshua notes, "the tagging system in flickr was inherited from del.icio.us"
Tagging in pictures WILL become important.
Posted on August 10, 2004
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Little icon in the adressbar
After a little research I found the way to implement a little icon in the adressbar.
Useless, but cute, you have to admit. :)
Posted on August 10, 2004
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Doubts
Doubts, they got in my head.
Doubts about everything.
But mainly about what I am doing here, if this is what I want.
I don't know and it is enough to keep me awake at night, to trouble my mind.
And the woman that smiles in my ear, and tells me that everything will be ok, doesn't convince me yet.
My mum, hours later, will tell me the same.
And out of nothing this one friend calls.
The kind of friend that you don't hear in months but suddenly calls and the right answers gives without knowing the real question.
And suddenly the knowledge what I already knew: everybody doubts, a 27 year old, and a 40 year one.
Insecurity is a fact. Always.
And slowly the confusion gets out of my head.
The solicitation letter will end in the garbagebin, I know, when I put down the phone.
Posted on August 11, 2004
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Niemand
Niemand
Ze weten alles beter,
ze weten het zo goed,
ze zitten in hun zetel
en ze zeggen hoe het moet.
Zorg dat je een vak leert,
geluk dat is voor later,
maar niemand kan ons helpen,
zelfs geen psychiater.
Niemand kan zeggen wat je doen moet,
niemand kan zeggen wat je voelt.
Je moet niet blijven dromen,
er is te weinig tijd.
Ze liegen dat ze zwart zien,
met hun quasi zekerheid.
Maar mijn opa die is honderd
en hij twijfelt elke dag.
Zo'n man verdient een standbeeld
en bloemen op z'n graf,
want hij zei, want hij zei tegen mij:
Niemand kan zeggen wat je doen moet,
niemand kan zeggen wat je voelt.
De koning, de bakker, de vieze president,
de rijkswacht, de pooier, de man die niemand kent,
de spreeuwen, de mussen, de grote, Jan van Gent,
de zanger, de dromenr, de drummer van de band,
de dikke, de dunne, de kleine consument,
de papa, de mama, het eeuwige talent,
de pasha, de keizer kampeerden in een tent,
de lange, de korte, de dikke producent,
niemand kan zeggen wat je doen moet,
niemand kan zeggen wat je voelt.
Stef Bos
Posted on August 11, 2004
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Olympics: Serena to miss Games
Tennis star Serena Williams pulls out of the Olympic Games with a knee injury.
[BBC News]
Will Henin go for gold???
Posted on August 11, 2004
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Wireless Is the New Platform
Certainly, there is still a lot of room for new ideas. The emergence of wireless as a platform opens up opportunities for small independent developers -- who can hack tiny apps such as an instant messenger or a photo-blogging tool and sell it to millions of users worldwide. The software doesn't have to be aimed at the consumer market either. Metcalfe is funding BridgePort Networks, a Chicago-based startup that makes software to facilitate seamless switching between Wi-Fi and cell-phone networks. BridgePort sells the software to large phone companies.
from [Om Malik on Broadband]
Posted on August 11, 2004
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Early Adopter
These days people can call me an early adopter, I seem to have all the latest features on my computer.
I blame the blogging culture. I need to test, to check for PhotoBlog -and you don't hear me complain-
What is easy, what isn't. What is hyped and why.
Today I found iChatStatus a little ticker that gives some extra info on your iChat account. And yes it works in Proteus
So you wonder why people want to show the iTunes-music that is playing on their computer to the rest of the world.
I don't know either, people freak on it.
Share your world, seems to be the motto.
I don't know if that is a necessity, but I would love to go further into this gadget and offer people the possibility to show which tune is playing, in their PhotoBlog.
Just for the fun of it... Grin.
Posted on August 11, 2004
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Saudi Arabia to open up oil taps
Saudi Arabia says it is ready to push an extra 1.3 million barrels a day of oil into the market, to help reverse surging prices.
[from BBC News]
While Saudi Arabia is pulling out what is rest of their oil reserves, America refuses to touch theirs, which is 'reserved for national security'
The explanation for that is very easy to find: In other words, being presently dependant to "remote" and "unstable" countries (Venezuela, Middle East, and, pardon me, Russia) for 40% only of their present supply, USA would become dependant to the Middle East for 75% of their supply in 15 to 20 years.
The oil is thus a strategical point. Who will own the oil will be in charge because they will define the prices.
This is an explanation of the invasion of Iraq, which is said to have the 2nd largest oil reserves in the world, after Saudi Arabia.
You would say that they go for the oil in other countries, but as said many of these countries are in extreme unstable situations.
So why is Sudan left out of the picture for so long and for example Nigeria not. Oil we guess
Anyhow, as mentioned before, will it help? Geologists are rather pessimistic about the situation, and also on international level some warning signs are being heard: within 10 to 20 years we do have a problem...
Do you have your solar panel already?
Posted on August 11, 2004
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Sales of digital cameras going down
According to the research office IDC the sales of digital cameras will increase with another 45%, after this, the major concurrence of the camera phone will decrease the sales of ordinary digi cameras
At the same time another report tells that fast internet seems to have reached the ceiling in Belgium, according to a research of the ISPA.
But is is like that? Or is the guerilla to get more clients through cheap services too much for the user?
Posted on August 12, 2004
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PhotoFriday: Tranquility
Posted on August 13, 2004
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Designer iPod case roundup
The September/October issue of New York's City magazine has a roundup of designer iPod cases, including offerings from Louis Vuitton ($265), Paul Smith ($115), Kate Spade ($55), Coach ($78), Gucci ($195), Dior Homme ($265), and Dunhill ($105)...
Posted on August 13, 2004
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iTonez for Mac OS X
A good tip:
Apple didn't know it at the time, but the best use so far that I have for Garage Band is making ringtones. I have never had this much fun with a phone and my Mac since I discovered Salling Clicker.
I went into my basement, got my old MOTU FastLane USB MIDI adapter, a Korg ER-1 drum machine, and started rocking my bad self and my new Sony Ericsson K700i.
If you have a Mac, I strongly recommend digging through the Garage Band library for cool loops or instruments to join together in a tasty ringtone remix for your own use and to share with others.
I whipped this one up just now for fun, it has a middle-eastern House music feel.
Posted on August 13, 2004
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A Tribute to Henri Cartier-Bresson: Most Gifted Photographer of Our Times, by Michelle Vignes
Editor's Note: Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 – 2004) was trained as a painter but is best known for his photographs. He witnessed many of the most important events of the 20th Century, from the Spanish Civil War to the Chinese revolution in 1949 to the French student uprisings of 1968. His work has come to be associated with the phrase, “the decisive moment”, so brilliantly demonstrated in the photo of the man jumping over the puddle at the St. Lazare station in Paris. This is actually the English translation of the title of his photo book, "Images à la Sauvette" (Images on the run). In addition to the assignment-driven photojournalism, he also worked for himself, walking aimlessly through neighborhoods in search of a moment when the eye, the head and the heart could come together in a single image.
I met HCB long ago working for him at Magnum Photos in Paris. He has been, still is, and will always remain my inspiration. Right away he asked my opinion on everything that came to his mind that day and that made me a little shy. As I felt he was so strong, I had to get acquainted with his work that I loved and found to be so natural.
Working was a constant surprise as he was like lightning -or an explosion just as his way of photographing was defined by his friend Robert Delpire:"The lightning strike of a predator", though he did not track his subjects.
Naturally he worked as he lived - quickly and with eagerness; constantly in motion, devoured by curiosity but still contemplating. He had this duality of being a Buddhist, or, as he wife says, a "turbulent Buddhist" and an anarchist, while also keeping a great sense of humor.
His intensity showed in his deep blue eyes, never at rest.
He always carried a little book of poems in his pocket so he could keep reading when waiting for a bus.
One word characterizes him - Passion. Passion springing from the tension within him, passion for life, passion for discovering, passion for his friends, passion for painting. He always talked more about painting than photography.
Sometimes he could be like a spring ready to break and explode. Then, after the explosion, calm again like a blue sky after a storm. He could be very emotional, but always faithful and loving to his friends. He made his friends really part of his family and that gave me a wonderful sense of belonging.
After one year of working at Magnum, HCB returned from a long trip to Russia with many photographs he was the first “name” photographer to come back from the other side of the Iron Curtain. It was a big coup. I had to go with him to all the magazines and sell his stories. They were divided into 13 subjects to fit different iterations. Everyone was interested but all asked me; "Did Henri take any color ?" Like everybody else, I also wanted to know. He always answered in a teasing tone; "maybe.... but if I did I do not remember where they are".
When all the agitation about this was over Henri came to me one day, saying: "Look Michelle, what I just found”. It was a tiny little cardboard box tied tightly with a string and labeled "tiny pieces of unusable pencils": So I opened it and there were his color slides.......
Find some interesting workshops on true photography here
Posted on August 13, 2004
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Good photography
©Boaz Aharonovitch
Boaz Aharonovitch is a young Israeli photographer who seems to be able to escape the new post-modernism in photography. Although his images are snaps of ordinary things, the meaning within is higher than the empty pictures we see so often these days.
He was a student in my school in Tel Aviv -Bezalel- and I really like his stuff.
When he presented this picture on the last Open Studios, I loved it.
It is taken at a suicide bombing, what we don't see in the picture is the bombed bus. Only the amount of police, aid workers and others.
Right to the point, with this kind of sarcasm that is not over the edge.
A picture that askes a question without pretending to know the answer.
Should visit:www.boazaha.net
Posted on August 14, 2004
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Israelis 'could leave the Golan'
Israel could safely give up the Golan Heights in an eventual peace deal with Syria, Israel's army chief says.
[from BBC News]
Roger Hardy says something more on the subject:
Is a breakthrough likely?
There is some chance a discreet back-channel may be opened up so that Israelis and Syrians can explore one another's intentions.
The Israeli Foreign Minister, Silvan Shalom, has revealed there were indirect contacts seven or eight months ago, which were broken off after their existence was made public.
But Israeli analysts think Mr Sharon is only going through the motions.
Preoccupied with a controversial initiative on the Palestinian front, he has no interest in territorial withdrawal on the Golan as well.
Moreover he appears to be under no American pressure to engage with the Syrians.
For the Bush administration, the key issue is which side Syria is on in the "war on terror".
President Bush, like Prime Minister Sharon, seems more interested in punishing President Assad than rewarding him.
Posted on August 14, 2004
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A Picture Worth Exactly One Thousand Words
You are looking not only at the image of a war crime but also at the worst fears of a war criminal. That is to say, you are looking at the reason that those accused will cooperate but not implicate.
Many things are said on these pictures, find another interesting article by Garret Keizer.
Garret is an editor for Mother Jones, a magazine that tries to do investigative journalism. Read some other interesting articles on their site, in particular this on on 'Why media stopped reporting on Abu Graib'
Posted on August 14, 2004
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Quote of the week
"There's nothing good that can come of it. We win, we lose. We lose, we lose."
-- A U.S. Army operations officer in Najaf laying out the possible outcome of any strike on the sacred Imam Ali mosque.
Meanwhile good to know:
While the deaths of American military personnel in Iraq have quite rightly gotten a good deal of news coverage, it's worth noting the other casualties of the war. According to a database compiled by the goup Iraq Body Count, so far the conflict in Iraq breaks down as follows:
- U.S. military deaths: 936
- Deaths among non-U.S. coalition forces: 125 (64 British)
- Iraqi civilian (non-combatant) deaths: 11,510-13,483
Posted on August 14, 2004
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Palestinian inmates on hunger strike
Palestinians held in Israeli jails go on hunger strike to protest at conditions but Israel says they can "starve to death".
[from BBC News]
Maybe the Israeli minister should follow some courses on how to speak tactically....
I guess it is not the perfect way to get into the good light.
Posted on August 15, 2004
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Photoshop 101
Direct and Related Links for 'Photoshop 101'
The great thing about Adobe Photoshop is that it’s useful for anything from the simplest projects to the most complex. It’s possible to use its surface features for years without knowing a darned thing about its deeper functions, and that’s fine - they’ll be there when you need ‘em. Here’s a site that helps you unlock Photoshop’s full potential for your needs through countless free, user-submitted tips and tutorials. Try not to use your newfound…[tx Lockergnome's RSS Resource]
Posted on August 15, 2004
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Add live chat to your blog
After reading the post of Joi Ito on Chatango I decided to try it too.
It sucks for me.
You have to log in in a browser window all the time to be able to chat.
Next to that you can't change the lay out of your browser window. And you don't hear when somebody starts blogging with you.
So Loic, I don't agree on your 'It rocks'
It is just a little buzz for an application that could have been sooooo much better.
I won't keep myself busy with logging in every day in another browser window.
I can give you another 25 applications that are worth mentioning.
Posted on August 16, 2004
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Imagine.
How far is this SF today?
Posted on August 16, 2004
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Light
John had an interesting post on light.
I agree: I HATE saving lamps. It takes 15 minutes before they are warmed up and the light has this strange glow, I guess a combination of yellow orange and even some strange cyan. It is cold...
Give me the beautiful light bulb of the old days, spending too much energy, but yet beautiful...
Or little halogens. They are ok, their light is clear and neat. -But please not the Ikea-shaped holders...-
Or another option is this: Mathmos Color Bubble
More here
Posted on August 16, 2004
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New Mobile
After reading the message of Apple that suddenly we can turn a bluetooth into a zapmachine and my realisation that I just gave up my money saved for a P600 phone for a more important investment, I am challenged to buy the Sony Ericson t630.
My mother's boyfriend is running around with his, and I am really eager to try the thing on my Mac...
After reading this and this, I am even more tested....
Soo, does somebody has any advice on where to buy this little tresor for the cheapest price???
I found GSMPlaza.nl but didn't figure out if they sell outside of Holland.
I can't wait to synchronize my adressbook, agenda, and tasks.
And hopefully the iCal Alarm is integrated. Would be great.
Eager to know some available software for your mobile? Check here.
-In case you wondered why suddenly Apple and Microsoft are so fast to start cooperating with mobile manufacturers. This is the answer: your mobile turns into a portable computerplatform! lol-
Posted on August 16, 2004
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Plazes
Plazes is a quite interesting tool. It looks where you are and considers your are a nomad.
It will mention where you now, making a difference between the place you discovered and the you.
Superb. You can add your location in your blog and on the Plazes site you can find people in your neighbourhood.
Another interesting thing is that it makes a mention of which network you are using and if it is open or not.
In the future it might become a nice locator of wi-fi spots...
Might come in handi some times.
And indeed worth mentioning.
Posted on August 16, 2004
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Murmurs of Earth
Pioneers 10 and 11, which preceded Voyager, both carried small metal plaques identifying their time and place of origin for the benefit of any other spacefarers that might find them in the distant future. With this example before them, NASA placed a more ambitious message aboard Voyager 1 and 2-a kind of time capsule, intended to communicate a story of our world to extraterrestrials. The Voyager message is carried by a phonograph record-a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. The contents of the record were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University. Dr. Sagan and his associates assembled 115 images and a variety of natural sounds, such as those made by surf, wind and thunder, birds, whales, and other animals. To this they added musical selections from different cultures and eras, and spoken greetings from Earth-people in fifty-five languages, and printed messages from President Carter and U.N. Secretary General Waldheim. Each record is encased in a protective aluminum jacket, together with a cartridge and a needle. Instructions, in symbolic language, explain the origin of the spacecraft and indicate how the record is to be played. The 115 images are encoded in analog form. The remainder of the record is in audio, designed to be played at 16-2/3 revolutions per minute. It contains the spoken greetings, beginning with Akkadian, which was spoken in Sumer about six thousand years ago, and ending with Wu, a modern Chinese dialect. Following the section on the sounds of Earth, there is an eclectic 90-minute selection of music, including both Eastern and Western classics and a variety of ethnic music. Once the Voyager spacecraft leave the solar system (by 1990, both will be beyond the orbit of Pluto), they will find themselves in empty space. It will be forty thousand years before they make a close approach to any other planetary system. As Carl Sagan has noted, “The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced spacefaring civilizations in interstellar space. But the launching of this bottle into the cosmic ocean says something very hopeful about life on this planet.”
Only, all of this doesn't mention any war, nor a couple kissing, nor the reality as it was. Only months after the launch, Waldheim was recognized as a nazi sympatizer and collaborator. On the recording his speech is welcoming the extraterrarials...
If you made a message for the outside world, what would it contain?
Posted on August 17, 2004
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My paper
It took me some time but here it is... Plato's Cave.
My paper on our unability to read images without the proper tools.
A work on the influence of images and digital images in news. And a tool how to make an correct interpretation of such images.
Enjoy.
(PS: Yep the file is password protected for editing and printing. Not that I don't believe in Creative Commons, I just believe that such a paper might lead his own life on the web.
If you want to copy paste stuff for publication, you can achieve the password by mailing me.)
Posted on August 17, 2004
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Beast Awareness
©Ine Dehandschutter
Too many women have breast cancer. Breast Awareness is a project that runs in China, to make women aware of the problem.
Posted on August 17, 2004
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Sharon backs new settlement homes
Israeli PM Ariel Sharon gives the green light to 1,000 new homes in settlements in the occupied West Bank.
[BBC News]
This article from August 9 tells an opposite story.
No wonder the Palestinians stopped believing the Israeli.
I remember Yasser's words: C'mon Ine, tell me, what do you see?
I saw a big settlement with big cranes, 3 months later 3 more cranes were added...
Posted on August 17, 2004
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Perfect peace
Friends. I have been hanging around them the last 3 days. And it is great.
Sharing of thoughts, interesting conversations.
Changes of everybody after 2 years of barely seeing eachother.
Not soo much is needed to get back to where one left.
Basil jumps on my leap, still hugging me to death. And the little one is quirreling 'Ineke, Ieeeeneke' I smile.
I read a story before they go to bed. Let him spell out some words.
Things changed, I grew up. Want my life. And yet want not. Enjoy of what is around me.
Yet more critical.
Later, in the couch, I see people that like each other, hugging. And perfect peace.
If I could freeze this moment, I would.
I guess that is what I do, freeze them, store them in pictures, put them in a box, and much later, take them out to hold them and love them.
Moments, monuments.
Posted on August 20, 2004
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Guess who has Skype since one day...
Yep. :))))
Posted on August 21, 2004
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In Chinese Magazine
Many people are aware of it, but PhotoBlog has some hard core fans.
Not many know who these fans are.
Moko, Chinese and working for a Chinese magazine is one of them.
She looks for interesting photographers to invite them to make something for her magazine.
The result?
Imagine you in the next magazine!
Posted on August 21, 2004
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Canon introduces new digital cameras
Canon today announced a number of new digital cameras...
[through MacMinute]
The one I am interested in is this beauty: the 8.2 megapixel EOS 20D digital SLR camera for $1,599, available in September.
My D10 was stolen in Israel last May, and I have to replace it urgently. THis one indeed will be the one.
Dpreview released more teasing:
Canon has today revealed the EOS 20D, the eight megapixel successor to the EOS 10D. The new sensor is however only half the story the EOS 20D has a slightly smaller and lighter body, a brand new 9-point AF system, near instant power on time, 5 frames per second continuous shooting, support for EF-S digital lenses, true RAW+JPEG, a B&W mode and USB 2.0. In total we've counted approximately 30 noteworthy improvements on the EOS 20D. Naturally we have a detailed eleven page hands-on preview. Price on the street around US$1,500
Posted on August 21, 2004
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Cameraphone lense kit
Brando Workshop's groovy camera lense kit for cameraphones and camera-enabled PDAs offers you a choice of Set 1: kaleidoscope, tele, and soft filter or Set 2: macro, distortion, and kaleidoscope. Pop a lense out of the lovely magnetic-close plastic case and stick (yes, they're tacky) it over your cameraphone lense (see the two packages and tele lense attached to a Nokia 6230).
The macro lense (see the up-close-and-pixelated shot of the Bluetooth logo on my Powerbook's menubar) is perhaps the most interesting. And the tele does a reasonable job of bringing things just a small % closer.
Ta, Chris!
[Through MobileWhack]
Well. This is cute, lomolike cam phone might be fun.
Posted on August 21, 2004
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Bad day in Najaf
NAJAF -- I don't know what the news is from the rest of Iraq or even what's going on with the governor of Najaf. I do know what's happening with the police department, however. They're raiding the Sea of Najaf hotel and rounding the 100 or so journalists at gunpoint and subjecting them to mass arrest.
[from Back to Iraq 3.0]
Worth reading because of the other side of the story...
Posted on August 29, 2004
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Silence
doesn't always mean nothing is happening...
I can tell you, a lot happened :)
Posted on August 29, 2004
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Posted on August 30, 2004
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Skype beta
The last new beta of Skype for Mac supports calling to ordinary phones.
Byebye fixed phone.
From now on wherever you have a internetconnections -dial up, lan, dsl, wifi- you can call abroad for no money.
Have to fix my microphone though...
Posted on August 30, 2004
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Exhibition Marc Riboud
©Ine Dehandschutter
We went to Paris, TMR and Dana had to catch a plane.
Before I dropped them off, we went to see Marc Riboud's exhibit in Maison Europeenne de la Photographie
And suddenly, when seeing that one image, I remember why i take pictures...
To capture a moment and to show it afterwards.
©Ine Dehandschutter
Posted on August 31, 2004
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Images and sounds of War
Photos and a movie from action in Najaf.
[from Back to Iraq 3.0]
Posted on August 31, 2004
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Ant Bush Computer Game
Stunning graphics for the better cause
More games like this here
Posted on August 31, 2004
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Skype officially launched
Well... The secret releasing of the alpha's made sure everything went faster and faster.
I guess whole Holland had already the alpha's before the beta's were launched.
Today they launched officially Skype for Mac os X.
Yep, we are smiling.
Posted on August 31, 2004
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Sony Ericsonn
After checking my accounts, I sold my old Sony Ericsonn and bought this beauty.
In black.
Not for the included camera -although I will use it for testing the beta-service on PhotoBlog soon-, but for the bluetooth that synchro's my agenda, contacts and to do's, even with alarm from my computer.
And the nice remote from Salling Clicker is an extra.
Controlling my keynote/PPT presentation from a phone. Is kinda cute, I think.
The big buttons for dialing are a handy extra.
If I need the extra's from a p900? I don't think so, I always have my comp with me, and for writing whole stories is seems a kindof complex.
This t630 will do :)
Posted on August 31, 2004
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