Month February 2007

Diesel and Dust

Σήμερα άκουσα — μετά από πολύ καιρό — το Diesel And Dust. Ίσως επειδή — όπως πάντα συμβαίνει με τη μουσική — έχω τόσες πολλές αναμνήσεις, κυρίως καλές, που καλύπτουν το μεγαλύτερο μέρος της ζωής μου, ίσως επειδή η μουσική είναι εύπεπτη (αν και όχι ξεχωριστή) αλλά παράλληλα τόσο διαχρονική (η σχέση μου με τα […]

Virt!

Ok, some of you already know about this, but here goes. Two or three years ago I was looking for Microsoft's Windows 95 easter egg MIDI file called clouds.mid and somehow ended up on this site. First of all the arrangements and some of the productions this guy has made are amazing. Then check out the 'a capella' versions of the Star Wars theme, Mario 3, Bubble Bobble etc. Pure madness :)

Canon EOS 1D Mark III.

The Mark IIIs are here! Well, at least the first one is. Oh boy: 10MP (perhaps not exactly impressive on its own, but...) combined with 10fps (!?), 110 frames in one burst. Wow! The rest is more or less expected: APS-H CMOS sensor, DIGIC III, a 3.0" LCD and the EOS Integrated Cleaning System also seen in 400D.
Canon EOS 1D Mk III

Getting a Used Lens

SLR Photo lenses are expensive. Good SLR lenses are very expensive, often exceeding the price of a mid-range Canon or Nikon DSLR camera itself. As I’m about to get a used L-series Canon EF Lens, I thought I’d share with you a checklist that I prepared to help me remember (and guide me on) what […]

IMDb redesigned

Besides a few minor changes over the years, IMDb hadn't been significantly revamped for the better part of a decade. Until today that is. There's one thing I'm not exactly getting here: why didn't they redesign the whole site? What's the point of incremental updates?

Blender 2.43 is out.

BlenderThe latest version of the premier open source 3d modelling application is here. Read the release notes, watch the feature videos and get it from blender.org! This version adds several interesting new features, such as Mesh Sculpting and Retopo tools. It also has numerous improvements in the renderer, particle system, animation system and compositing. Finally it seems so much faster on my PowerPC G5 hardware.

Peer Reviewed School Textbooks.

Here's an idea. Ignore the part where Jobs rants on teacher job security and how this drives the quality of applicants down; What's truly interesting is the opinion also expressed by others in the past: the replacement of textbooks by electronic, online, peer-reviewed information sources, offering up-to-date, widely accepted material to students. Something like Wikipedia (perhaps limited in scope and moderated) replacing what are obsolete and often partial textbooks.

The 'Hackintosh' experience.

These past few years have been part of a period in which the computing industry, for the first time after many years, has been in flux. The importance of web applications is growing everyday. Alternatives to well-established platforms and application software, often powered by open source software, are challenging the status quo and there was […]

An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

Το An Inconvenient Truth είναι ένα ντοκυμαντέρ παραγωγής 2006 αφιερωμένο στην υπερθέρμανση του πλανήτη και βασισμένο εν πολλοίς σε μια, εκ των πολλών, διάλεξεων του Αl Gore, ενός πολιτικού που έχει αφιερώσει τα τελευταία χρόνια της ζωής του στην διάδοση και ενημέρωση του κόσμου σε αυτό το ιδιαίτερα σημαντικό και άκρως ενδιαφέρον θέμα. Ο Gore […]