Panoramas

I found an incredibly easy to use panaroma stitcher tool for OS X; DoubleTake. It is shareware, but worth all the few euri it asks for a license. Just drop in the photos of your panorama and 9 out of 10 times it creates the correct panorama. It works with both photos shot in ‘Panorama mode’ and series of photos shot in series without fixed lighting and white balance settings.

As a result my Panorama gallery is growing fast, working my way through my backlog.

Dhaulagiri in its full splendour

Insanely high mountains

… paint it black

I finally finished painting all the doors and jambs. I managed to squeeze in one black door, although it was not originally red. My bathroom door is now painted with chalkboard-paint and since it is visible from both the living room and the kitchen it serves very well as a todo list. (and no I haven’t found Maartens book yet :( )

Freshly painted house

Finished painting

A rift in the internet

the evidence is finally there that Google is building its own version of the internet. If you search for images in the Dutch version of Google you have the option to search for images or search “The ‘The internet‘” (het het internet). Not to be mistaken for the common internet, currently in use by billions of peasants. Apparently this is a specific subset of the Internet, probably only with content that Google has approved and/or cached. This might be the new internet without the flaws of the current one, like freedom of speech.

the The Internet

Finally it has arrived the ‘The Internet