June 2004 Archives
Doors June 30, 2004 - Doors; september 2003; nikon 5700; © janco tanis…
D70 firmware update June 30, 2004 - Nikon has an update available of the D70 firmware. It consists of two parts A & B which have to be updated separately. The upgrades seem to fix some minor issues although — according to dpreview — it will also…
Foundation June 24, 2004 - Foundation; St. Paul’s London; december 2002; nikon 5700; © janco tanis…
Accessible image links June 23, 2004 - #fir-link span { display:block; padding: 31px 0 0 0; width: 88px; overflow: hidden; background-image: url( /blog/archives/getfirefox-80.gif) ; background-repeat: no-repeat; height: 0px !important; height /**/: 31px; } #fir-link:hover span { padding: 31px 0 0 0; width: 88px; overflow: hidden; background-image:…
Rubbish in... June 23, 2004 - Rubbish in, rubbish out; june 2004; nikon 5700; © janco tanis…
New Mozilla applications June 17, 2004 - A new FireFox 0.9 and a new Thunderbird 0.7 withing one week! Great new software! I’m now using FireFox instead of IE for my browsing as the tabbed browsing feature is much better to handle then a multiple windowed…
RSS feed preview June 16, 2004 - Did you know that bloglines can be used to preview an RSS feed? No…? Try it with my RSS 0.92 excerpts feed….
Cabir bluejack June 16, 2004 - Have you been bluejacked by Cabir yet? If you have a phone with BlueTooth, and you’re within range of about 10 meters of another person with a bluetooth enabed device, you can communicate with hime or her. Bluejacking is sending…
Designing Web Usability; ISBN 156205810X June 14, 2004 - The Practice of Simplicity “one of the most influentual books on the subject” Jacob Nielsen is considered as the Guru of web usability. I have read this book some time ago. The book came out in 1999 and is…
Good bye blue sky June 13, 2004 - Good bye blue sky; 2003; nikon 5700; © janco tanis For some reasons this image could not be compressed without getting jpeg artifacts. This is a bit against my expectations as the big rectangular areas should compress quite nicely….
Being John Malkovich June 13, 2004 - Last saturday I saw the movie “Being John Malkovich” for the second time. It was still a great movie. It’s about an unemployed puppet player — Craig Schwartz — who finds a little door which is the portal into the…
Had my hands on a D70 June 12, 2004 - Yesterday I had my hands on a D70 for the first time and I must say that I was impressed! After weeks Kees finally got to buy one of these machines. I could find my way on this machine immediately…
Do you name your hardware? I do! June 11, 2004 - Veerle wonders if you give your hardrive a name. Well actually I haven’t done that for years now. I tend to use the MS-DOS Label program to give the disk a name. I now only give all my computers a…
Comment spam June 10, 2004 - After getting comment spam on my site again for the second day in a row I decided to install the MT-Blacklist plugin by Jay Allen. I don’t get lot of spam but the MT2 interface of removing spam is not…
Nikon FM3D June 9, 2004 - The rumours are getting stronger now photokina is getting close. Thom Hogan speculates about the D2X but also about a manual FM3d. This would be based on the 6mpix sensor of the D70. I would not know why Nikon would…
Vermeer's melk meisje June 9, 2004 - I probably never forget this painting: “Vermeers melkmeisje”. Never saw it in real but loads of people — and my mother — have an embroidered version of this painting….
The Da Vinci Code; ISBN 0385504209 June 9, 2004 - If you strip out the murdering and the guns, this books looks like a documentary. The books is about Robert Langdon — a professor of Religious Symbology — “Opus Dei” — which responds on the fact the they are…
Andrew's rebuttal June 9, 2004 - The SCO attack of Linux has moved a lot of people. After Ken Brown wrotes an article that Linus could not have written Linux 0.01 in such a short time, Andrew feels he has to respond. The article has quite…
The last supper June 8, 2004 - I have first seen this painting of Da Vince as a reproduction by Andy Warhol. During the last years of his life, Warhol created hundreds of paintings with very clear religious themes. According to Dr. Dillenberger, the Last Supper…
The Vitruvian Man June 6, 2004 - This master piece is probably known by everyone, hence I guess no-one knows it has a name! It was drawn around 1492 by Leonardo da Vinci and is about architecture and the proportions of the human body. The man…
Nicer google results June 6, 2004 - I found a real nice plugin for google called MoreGoogle. I promises to be free of cost and spyware. This plugin shows a little thumbnail of each of the search results (when possible). More-google screen capture for search on “janco…
First anniversary June 5, 2004 - This site was launched on the 5th June 2003 and is now a year old. I didn’t really expect it would be fun after a year but as I’m still posting I guess it has found a place in…
404 - You need fresh air June 3, 2004 - 404 - You need fresh air…
The figure PHI June 2, 2004 - Introduction Like e and pi, there is a — not commonly known — figure called phi with the symbol φ. The value of φ is 1.618 and you can find this figure in nature and mathematics on numerous of…
Canon firmware hack June 1, 2004 - Although it did take quite long, finally a russion guy has implemented a hack for the 300D to get the features of the Canon 10D! “The 10D has a menu item called “Custom Functions” which allows these settings to be…
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