Vinokourov suspected of fractures
Oh Shit!
At Radsport-News.com I found the original article.
Archive 6.6.2004 - 14.6.2004
Contax RTS Macro Photography - Part I
I now have an Auto Bellows PC for my Contax, so I did a bit of googling and came across this nice site that documents all the Contax tools for macro photography. Very interesting.
Contax RTS Series SLR Camera Models - Plenty of information about the Contax RTS system
EU election almost over
And of course, the Union is supposedly the big winner - even though they also lost votes. But lying to yourself is much easier than facing reality: that namely the politicians completely failed to motivate voters to actually show up at the polls.
Radio UserLand: Bootstrap: How to redirect an RSS feed - inline redirect fĂĽr RSS
Blue Letter for the Federal Returning Officer
Sometimes you just have to hold your head in disbelief at how much stupidity our federal politicians display.
At Telepolis News (12.06.2004) you can find the original article.
Dark lonely Saturn moon received earthly visit
Yes, I know that the money for such missions would certainly be better spent elsewhere. Nevertheless, I find such missions incredibly exciting and I'm always thrilled to see pictures of alien worlds. Human curiosity simply wants to know what it's like in places that one will never actually be able to reach oneself.
At Telepolis News (12.06.2004) you can find the original article.
Ehlert und Partner - Magnifying glasses, microscopes, etc.
German licenses launched
That's quite nice. German versions of the Creative Commons licenses, which have also been adapted to German law.
At Creative Commons: weblog there's the original article.
A Year Ago Today
It's interesting when you compare the olds with the news.
- Microsoft's antivirus acquisition causes a stir
- Washington enforces immunity for US soldiers
- Sun: Linux users don't actually want Linux
- IP addresses sold on the black market
- Homeland Security hunts politicians
- The CSU doesn't like penguins
The great acquisition of the supposedly market-leading antivirus vendor that nobody knew only caused a stir back then — otherwise it was simply irrelevant.
The immunity of US soldiers is a disgrace, especially given the torture in Iraq. It probably had good reason that immunity was enforced — after all, it seems the US administration had long planned torture as a tool in its fight against terrorism.
Sun's claim that Linux users didn't really want Linux was already a laugh back then — but it's become particularly funny given all the egg dances Sun has performed in the meantime.
IP addresses being sold on the black market — no idea what came of that. I suspect it's still being sold. After all, the actual problem hasn't really changed.
Homeland Security is still a bunch of lunatics and overreach is the order of the day. However, they're no longer hunting as many runaway Democrats.
And while the CSU may not like penguins, Munich got them anyway. And gradually the project seems to be really taking off, after apparently there was stronger resistance to Linux in administration initially.
IBM receives patent for Caps Lock status indicator on PC keyboards
IBM of course also participates in the absurd patents on trivialities.
The original article can be found at heise online news at this link.
Magnifying Glasses - Magnifiers, Hand Magnifiers, Pocket Magnifiers, Illuminated Magnifiers, Measuring Magnifiers, Stand Magnifiers, Impact Magnifiers, Work Magnifiers, and more in the Magnifying Glasses Online Shop - All Types of Magnifying Glasses
Radford photographer to face trial in Jan.
In P960 I had already written something about Bob Shell - represented on some mailing lists on photography topics - being charged with murder. His trial is now likely to take place in January 2005. Here you can find the original article.
Back to the Future
DSL is acting up again
ASCII - ISO 8859-1 Table with HTML Entity Names - Reference tables for character sets and HTML entities
A Year Ago Today
Translation
I've now also built one of these, I can't think of anything anyway so I'm filling the gap with old stuff tools. No idea if I really want to do something with this long-term, but here's the first batch of reheated sauce:
- Investigation committee because of Möllemann?
- Koch has to pay
- Blix: "I had my slanderers in Washington"
- Visible Human Server Anyway, Möllemann is back on the agenda, Blix is out though, but Iraq is still in, Koch is still a ripoff artist and bastard and whether Jutta got the Visible Human Server back then is not confirmed |:-)|
Catastrophe! World Collapse! Anarchy!
My DSL went down. Horrible. I had to dust off my old modem skills, call colleagues for dial-up numbers and perform a few other mental gymnastics (like remembering dial-up procedures at http://www.westfalen.de/) just to get an ISDN internet connection running again. Now the world wide web crawls here at rural 64 KBit per X75 encoding over the line ... Welcome to the stone age
New image gallery plugin - needs testers - WordPress plugin for images in posts
Ray Charles Died
One less great voice.
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
The 'process' Python module - Process Management for Python - simpler than the standard functions
Threadframe: multithreaded stack frame extraction for Python - Easier debugging of multithreaded Python applications
Wine faster than the law allows: license gone
He can use the forced break to ride his bike more and improve his fitness for the tour.
At Radsport-News.com I found the original article.
Macro Photography Differently
The Ingredients:
- Canon EOS 10D
- Canon to Contax MM bayonet adapter
- Retro adapter for Contax MM bayonet
- Filter adapter from 52mm to Series VII
- Filter adapter from Series VII to 67mm
- Tokina RSX 17mm/3.5 wide-angle lens
- a Manfrotto 352RC ball head
- a Manfrotto 055SB tripod
- the camera's self-timer
The image field is then approximately 6 x 4 millimeters. In the image, a spine attachment of a cactus. And you can also photograph a cactus mite with it. The main problem is focusing: since I don't have a focusing rail, the cactus and equipment had to be moved. Image field selection via the ball head, rough focusing also via the ball head, fine focusing by carefully moving the subject. That's why the cactus mite isn't perfectly sharp either - for that you really do need the focusing rail.
microlen.htm - Discussions about macro photography lenses
Natural History with the Microscope as a Hobby - All about microscopy and microphotography
Network operators build cost traps into mobile phones
Oh man, now there's already something like dialers for cell phones. And it's being built in right from the sale. Rip-offs everywhere. Of course Vodafone is leading the way - yes, exactly, the ones with the million-dollar severance packages for managers who just got a tax gift after fraudulent stock price manipulation ...
At NETZEITUNG.DE Internet I found the original article.
Cactus Spine Approach
Spine attachment of a cactus
Photographed with the EOS 10D, a Contax adapter, a Contax reversal ring and the Tokina 17/3.5 in reverse position at aperture 16 and 3/4 second with subsequent exposure correction of the RAW file by 1.5 stops.
Depth of field, magnification and close-up lens calculator - Calculation of depth of field and magnification ratios
Cactus Mite
For size comparison: the distance between the centers of the two darker bars is one millimeter! The image is not optimally sharp, as I had to capture the whole thing relatively primitively - for example, at the time of shooting I didn't have a macro focusing stage for focus adjustment, but had to do it manually. Still, it's impressive what kind of images you can get with relatively little effort.
Bus and train travel more expensive for disabled people?
Necessary subsidy cuts - at the expense of the disabled. How wonderfully social.
The original article can be found at WDR.de.
Cinema: Unnecessary Heroes
That certainly sounds quite interesting
At DIE ZEIT: Feuilleton I found the original article.
Koch for New Nuclear Power Plants in Germany
Another one with a scrambled brain ...
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD there's the original article.
PyWork - Web framework based on Apache, mod_python, XSLT and ZPT
Xoltar Python Page - Functional Programming in Python
European Election - go and vote!
Well - the European Parliament is repeatedly sidelined and outvoted by the Council and Commission. That's crap. Just like the fact that the Union in the Bundesrat massively obstructs legislation in the Bundesrat. Both have their causes in the political systems: the Commission and the EU Council are also - admittedly very indirectly through the national governments and their appointed representatives - democratically legitimized. So far so bad.
But what is crystal clear: poor voter turnout in EU elections won't convince the people who already don't take Europe seriously in national governments that the EU Parliament deserves more attention. And we voters have that in our hands: if voter turnout is correspondingly higher, if voters actually treat the election as such, then eventually even the last office jockey in the government apparatus won't be able to ignore it.
Of course, the fact that Commission members and various councils have distinguished themselves through corruption and incompetence is a problem. But that needs to be fixed where it originates - in the respective countries. Because German representatives in the various bodies were sent by our own government.
So don't vent your frustration about the nonsense of politicians in the various governments on the EU Parliament. On the contrary: that should be an incentive to show that as a citizen you do value the EU Parliament. And the best way to do that is through participation in the election. Better to cast an invalid ballot than not to go, because voter turnout itself is a statement. And a statement that says I don't give a damn will definitely not change anything for the better. At Der Schockwellenreiter there's the original article.
House Entrances
House Entrances
Strange blossoms architecture produces in some corners of MĂĽnster ...
PS/2 and MCA History - History of IBM PS/2 Systems
iSync is Rubbish
I just wanted to do a sync after several days, and iSync suddenly wants to copy all my appointments from the organizer to my Mac - without me making a single change to any of these appointments on the organizer. That's absolutely ridiculous. And you can't even tell from the message that mentions 132 new objects which objects those actually are and which device they're coming from - at first I suspected the sync was coming from my phone.
Why can't Apple get synchronization right and why do they pester us with this pathetic pile of junk?
Sure, it's nice that you can synchronize all kinds of devices with iSync and even sync multiple devices at once. But that's completely useless if synchronization regularly duplicates and scrambles your data.
Reagan and the Soviets
Oh yes, retroactively fulfilled prophecies. What the colleague here "analyzes" with Reagan and Bush and their supposedly perhaps much cleverer approach, others do in the same form: only "analyze" it so that Nostradamus was a clairvoyant ...
Sorry, but just because the Soviet Union collapsed, and Reagan was president at that time, doesn't automatically make the president and his policies the reason for the collapse. You could just as easily claim that Kohl brought about reunification - instead of the more correct analysis that he just happened to be Federal Chancellor at that time.
Someone is always American president or German Chancellor or great guru of Humba-Humba at the time of a major event. And someone will also implement some policy. So what?
Reducing major historical events to only the years before the event ignores the history and the internal development that underlies the whole situation. The changes in the USSR began independently of Reagan and even earlier. It's possible that the Americans' insane arms buildup was one factor - but certainly not the only one, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't even the most important one.
Ultimately, something shimmers through in the argument that has always annoyed me about history class: the reduction of history to the behavior of princes, kings, warriors or other big shots. Sorry, but that's nonsense.
At Ideas and Errors - Excursions through the New World Order there's the original article.
Another Awesome Algorithm Archive
Who is looking for an algorithm could find it in the NIST Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures - the chances are very high given the abundance of algorithms cataloged there.
At Gary Kings unCLog I found the original article.
Berlusconi wants to change the calendar
Here's my favorite Seibel priest ( Masematte for blabbermouth) at it again: he wants to change the calendar so that Christmas and a few other holidays always fall on a weekend, so that lazy workers have to toil more. Yet another idiotic proposal that our March Hare will certainly be happy to pick up ... Here's the original article.
Burningbird » Glory Days: The Parable of the Languages
The Revenge of Programming Languages on XML
Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel Tips and Tricks
A page with information about the 300D firmware hack and what it can do, as well as many other tips related to the 300D. What actually surprised me a bit about it is the following small box that was on the page:
FACTOID: Did you know your 10D and 300D run DOS? That's right. Embedded in the camera is DataLight's ROM-DOS. In fact, if you use the right tool such as s10sh you can see that inside the camera is an A: and B: drive. On the A: drive reside command.com and autoexec.bat, and most interestingly, camera.exe. DOS? DOS?? Wow. Somehow a bit scary.
Ian's Shoelace Site - Slipping Shoelace Knots?
Wow. An entire site about knot techniques that deals specifically with shoelace knots, among other things, and explains why some people can't keep their shoelaces tied while others don't have these problems. I love the Internet!