October 2007
The Archives
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10.30.07Romantic images sellI post the image above to one of my galleries on SmugMug. Then I get this comment: Hey, redo the picture and you'll have a heart shaped sky! Do you see it? If you would crop out upper half of the picture and turn it 180 degrees, you would have a heart. and you know.... romantic images sell! And seconds later I've done some cropping and rotation in Aperture and this one is up there as well. Haven't sold it yet, but I can see all kinds of embarrassing metaphors popping up. "Look up and you'll find love". Blah. Blah. I'll let you ...
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10.28.07The two dice calendar problemI bought this calendar in Marrakesh last month. You show the date by aligning the two special dices the right way, and the month by aligning one of three small wooden bricks at the bottom. Four sides times three bricks equal twelve months. But the interesting thing is the two dices. The question is, how would you place numbers on them to be able to show all the dates from 01 to 31 ? One of my most popular articles ever is a complicated mathematical experiment, so maybe there are someone out there that find this small challenge interesting. The usual layout for ...
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10.15.07Essential equipment for your presentationI am doing a lot of presentations. For about 10 years running Powerpoint on Windows based laptops. And for the last 10 months running KeyNote on a MacBook Pro. First some words on "the switch". The experience with the Mac is simply much better. Period. And I am an advanced user that actually have been able to use Powerpoint to play videos, do transitions and behave quite well on all my windows boxes. But KeyNote is in general a better application than Powerpoint. The way it renders the slides, support for better graphics with proper shadows, effects, transitions, alpha channels and ...
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10.08.07Facebook hangover(Image from the Blogres 07 party in Ljubljana.) All these possibilities for publishing and instant shopping leads to a whole lot of new types of hangover. Stuff you shouldn't do when returning from a party. And stuff you regret that you did during a party. Time for a quick roundup. iTunes hangover When your laptop ended up as the preferred jukebox at the party. People didn't like your music collection and you clearly said "yeeeeeeeees!" when they asked if it was okay to buy some tracks in the iTunes store. You wake up the day after and are not very happy with: 1. The amount ...
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10.04.07They stole an image of my son and just had to pay $4000Edit: I seems like I've done a bad job selecting words for my headline. Some people think that I am complaining because I "just" got $4000. I'm not complaining. It's a not-so-successful formulation to say that this happened recently. Or like one of the commenters over at Reddit said: "I assume that "just" refers to time. Meaning they only now, a short while ago, had to pay $4000." About a year ago I was surprised when I saw an image of my son in an ad for a shop called "Vinderen Elektriske", selling electronics. I immediately contacted the editor of the magazine in question, ...