Yes, I’m back. And in France again, yippeee…! But what was meant to be the second half of our holidays, became a nightmare because of a tiny and untypical mistake by yours truly. I clicked on a link in a fake email, and attracted a trojan viurs from Russia. Although I saw it immediately, computers [...]
I just bought me a new camera. After much researching and pondering, scratching my head and searching my conscience, I ultimately decided to buy yet another Nikon. This time a more professional one than my current D70. I opted for the D300s. Not the best, certainly not the least either. Its 12 Mpixel chip together [...]
…. for a while, leaving again in 3 weeks. Lots of ‘stuff’ happened between now and the last post (and most of it was mentioned on Facebook already). To summarize; had several mishaps with trailer, motorcycle, back….. new car has a scratch already (no note as to who did it, of course), walked through a [...]
Something I wanted to do a long time ago already….. get those 40.000 digital images out on the streets! So I opened an account on Fine Art America a while ago, and today started adding some thrilling (I think) pictures into its database. FAA has some nice products and good printing technique. I added a [...]
First thing to change had to be my old Silver Cloud Publishing web site. It was the first ever WordPress site I made and I hadn’t changed it from its default orange ‘theme’ since I made it. There wasn’t much to read on it either. So it got changed. I designed a brand new [...]
On first sight these two things have absolutely nothing in common. Correct. But what if I tell you that I was happily working on building my new FS News website, when Nina reminded me that the pile of wood in the third bedroom would start to rot if I didn’t get my sorry behind off [...]
Sadly, my days at simFlight (and simMarket) are numbered and I had to decide to quit an 8-year ‘career’ running one of the world’s top flight simulation news sites. The main reason being the fact that I just couldn’t afford it any longer. An already meager pay – and declining at that – with an [...]
I already was a publisher, of FSAddon of course, but am now also a partner in a new venture: Why Fly ! Sure, you’ve seen me post about it already, and there’s a link on this page to it, but something changed recently. Two of the initial founders wanted out, the business model of selling [...]
Do you remember the British comedy series Dad’s Army, with Captain Meanwaring, Sergeant Wilson, Corporal Jones, private Walker and all those other characters? The Home Guard group is re-enacted every year during the Goodwood Revival at the Goodwood Estate and Race track near Chichester on the south coast of England. Last September I shot some [...]
I haven’t had the opportunity to post lately, although I have put stuff on Facebook whenever I could. We were traveling in Austria with our friends Della and Barry, when the sad news reached us that Nina’s dad (‘Tata’) had died. He had been ill of cancer for the past 4 years and getting worse [...]
When someone is trying to push you out of business, and out of your income, there are two things you can do. Fight them with all means, or just go around them and do something else…. preferably better. Looks like I’m heading the second route. Fortunately we can still count on a huge group of [...]
Oh yes, after another grueling 4000 km drive we’re safely back home. Grueling not so much because of bad roads – actually, they have greatly improved in Romania – but more because of the years creeping upon us and we simply can’t deny that things are getting harder. Where we happily drove 2400 km’s to [...]
The plugin was sitting in the folder for years already, but I never made it active. It occurred to me this morning, while looking at he user stats of my various websites that I probably KNOW many of you, but not all. And as I am a nosy type by nature, although not as [...]
Big Time. Been having headaches for the past 3 weeks and that’s why you haven’t seen much of me here. Maybe I should see the doctor after all, one of these days. Meanwhile, we’re pretty busy with all sorts of ‘stuff’….. and Vivian and Menno are ‘in the country’. That’ll take some of our time [...]
Our daughter Vivian and her husband Menno are returning to Holland for a 2 weeks. And although we see her a few times per week on Skype, it will be good to have her around for a bit! Will be jumping in the Jeep in a few minutes to drive to the airport. They’ll [...]
In the ‘series’ of ‘what I look at on the Internet’ here’s a web site I particularly like. It is called 1x.com and shows beautiful photos by a large number of photographers. Click here to see. And now, ladies and gentlemen, I have to get back to my bookkeeping AND check on our Dutch speed [...]
Heck YESSSSS I am proud! My friends at WhyFly, the brand new aviation web magazine from Canada, have read my first story and deemed it fit to join those already there. That means I am in the company of some VERY talented and esteemed writers and photographers AND aviation lovers. I couldn’t wish for a [...]
Michael Paul Smith, a modeler and photographer in the US, has posted his skills on Flickr. Being an old modeler myself AND a photographer, I can only awe at his patience, skills and imagination ! I am glad I have something positive for my blog again Just CLICK HERE and stay glued to your monitor [...]
Yeah, you won’t see me angry quickly. I may be grumpy sometimes, but most of that is more out of fun than anything else. But these buggers have really done it now. I’ve been paying for a ‘Premium Site’ since 2002, that’s EIGHT YEARS. I figured I could make a few bucks of some of [...]
1-0 for now. It appears that it is so much ‘easier’ to quickly type a few lines on Facebook, read about what your friends and acquaintances are doing, check again a few times every day, and move on, then to write something worth reading on a blog. I complained about this before, to myself, who [...]
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