by Francois on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 · 0 comments
My friend Jo Stein from Germany has released his 6th edition of Herbstschnitt, the on-line photo magazine with a theme.
This time the theme was ‘facing’ and there are a lot of very interesting ideas on how to visualize that theme. Great photos too, of course !!!
Click on the picture to the left to take you to the ‘flipbook’ presentation of the photos. Enjoy!
And oh, before I forget, Jo is still looking for more photographers who want to join and display their art. Check out his website here (German).
by Francois on Monday, January 30, 2012 · 0 comments
Have you ever thought about this? How amazingly wonderful our brains are in terms of ‘navigating’ the world. Oh well, admittedly, some people cannot discern left from right, but in general we have some awesome computing power ‘up there’ and I think our brain deserves it to give it some credit every once in awhile.
I was looking outside, at the wondrous white world out there, and more in specific to the little patches with oat crumbs we made for the birds. These ‘garden birds’ not only have great eyes to find the little bits of food underneath the bushes, they also have a good MEMORY. Because once they know you put food out there for them, they keep coming back! Even with their tiny brains!
Good thing they only fly around in the area…… not so much data to store!
Now, take us human travelers! I have been to Ketchikan and San Francisco only once, but I’d find my way back to the places I’ve been there. Same as on the myriad of roads and paths I have covered in Europe, just about everywhere.
To me, in fact, that is nothing less than miraculous, don’t you think? Imagine having to store all that data in our notebook AND have it pop up THE MOMENT you need it. I think no program has managed that yet.
Alright, so I am a lifetime Map and Navigation Freak………. but still….. And in looking for some more info on the subject, I found THIS! Amazing !
by Francois on Saturday, January 28, 2012 · 0 comments
Yup, I FINALLY came up for air after some two weeks of major problems with a variety of things technical. Since the last update in December the webshop would not accept LARGE files for download anymore. Bummer! Took me an entire week of ‘helpdesking’ between the US, Bulgaria and Russia to get that solved.
That and the increased cost of a Dedicated Server ! I was running out of space on the VPS server anyway, so needed something more powerful anyway… but this was a bit quick 
Anyway, I now have a LARGE and FAST dedicated server that is for now only running the shop!
It also means that FINALLY I was able to release the NEW DOLOMITIX software from our friends in Italy at RealEarthX ! The latest in the serie is called Pieve di Cadore and covers an area just south of Comelico ! The entire area is getting covered more and more and allows for fantastic VFR alpine flying !
In the meantime I also had a lot of work investigating a website of a new customer, which turned out to be a major undertaking. I am a firm WordPress fan, but some things you just cannot do with it…… this was one of them.
If you are interested about such issues. ASK ME ABOUT IT !
And then there was the VAT return form that needed to be sent to our lovely tax people…… which of course was the very last thing I had patience for….. but I got it done too.
And now, believe it or not, Nina and I will go and see a movie…. in the new cinema in town. Must have been, oh, at least 20 years since Ive been in a cinema. !!
by Francois on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 · 0 comments
There’s a lot of talk about this all over the Internet. Basically the US wants to install laws to prevent the Internet being used by pirates and such. In reality such laws will very likely ONLY hit ‘normal netizens’ , just like many off-line laws do. Criminals of any kind will not care about it, find ways around it or just ignore them.
The chance of getting caught, and convicted even, wil not increase and so the real problem is that we’ll get a CENSORSHIP on the Internet by unseen people from some government.
We all know where that has led since 1917……… Do we want the ‘free world’ to become like Russia, China, North-Korea, India and other oppressing countries?
More info here:
http://blog.siteground.com/stop-censorship/
by Francois on Saturday, January 14, 2012 · 0 comments
Hey ya’ll, I never thought I’d get my moustache on a tv screen…. but it happened nonetheless. Let it roll for a bit and you’ll see me, straight from the FSAddon HQ ! Now I will hide back under my rocks again….. 
