Year 2007

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 […]

Royal v Sarkozy

It's a few months before France votes again for its President, the first time after the 2002 election, when, to everyone's surprise, the far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen beat the Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin in the first round, only to lose in the second to the incumbent, Jacques Chirac. The BBC features a point-by-point comparison of the differing policies and approaches proposed by the two main candidates. From their appearances on French media, they both seem to have some good ideas in their programme albeit for very different reasons. On the charisma front, however, Royal is certainly lagging behind Sarkozy, both in her rhetoric and in her perceived knowledge of the issues, despite Sarkozy's sometimes extreme comments (racaille anyone?) and his appeal to the far-right.

Mar Adentro (2004)

Το Μar Adentro είναι με βεβαιότητα μια από τις πιο καλές ταινίες που έχω δεί πρόσφατα. Και όχι μόνον επειδή θίγει ένα ιδιαίτερα σημαντικό ηθικό αλλα και κοινωνικό ερώτημα αλλά επειδή αισθητικά, σκηνοθετικά και καλλιτεχνικά ενθουσιάζει. Με σκηνοθέτη, σεναριογράφο αλλά και συνθέτη (!) τον Αlejandro Amenabar (του εξαιρετικού Abre los Ojos και του μέτριου Τhe […]