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Entries from January 2005

Home changes

Posted in All on January 29th, 2005 · No Comments

Today I have seen the most drastic changes to the place where I live since … well, since the time I live here. I’ll try to describe what happens, but I don’t know if you will have enough imagination to draw a picture. I surely cannot express all of these in a photograph.

Anyway, all furniture from the computer room and bedroom is in the living room. Except for the bed, which was disassembled and placed on the balcony. Living room has very little free space. I am writing this post standing behind the computer, because there is no space to fit in the chair. Basically, everything we have in a two bedroom apartment is now in a single room. And I am somewhere in the middle of it.

Ex-computer room, from now own kids room is freshly painted with white all over the walls and and ceiling. It is so bright that it almost hurts the eye, although it is dark there and only one 80 Watt tunsgten lamp is shining. Nothing else in there. Oh, no, wait. There is an empty cupboard. It was too big to move out of the room, so we emptied it to make it easier to move around.

Our bedroom is half painted in the same eye-hurting white color and half patched. There were some scary holes in the walls so they had to be patched. And the patching mastique didn’t dry up so we’ll have to leave it until tomorrow morning. Still, the room looks fresh and clean.

There are a bunch of small changes too. Like our entrance door handle is not falling off anymore. It was properly fixed. Also all doors were oiled and don’t make no sounds. Two of the noisiest doors were patched with special black soft thingies which don’t let them make a sound when banging closing.

Shweet…

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Free Online Photography Course

Posted in All on January 29th, 2005 · 1 Comment

This photography course is by far the best course I’ve seen on the web. It goes beyond the standard explanations of rule of thirds, and aperture vs. shutter speeds. The course consists of 10 lessons with discussion board attached to all of them for you to read other people’s comments or to ask your question. Great stuff!

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Yahoo! RSS

Posted in All on January 29th, 2005 · No Comments

This page lists all of Yahoo! RSS feeds. It also explains how you can use RSS. Among other things Yahoo! allows one to make search results for some query into an RSS feed. This feature will help you to monitor any new matches for the query and be notified immideately.

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Gigapxl Project

Posted in All on January 29th, 2005 · No Comments

Gigapxl Project hosts a few Gigapixel images. All shot with special custom-built cameras. Interesting.

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Watermelon art

Posted in All on January 28th, 2005 · No Comments

Since Lev is against blogging alltogether while having plenty of cool stuff to post, I’ll use these opportunities to gain some more fans for my blog. ;)

Today he send me a link to these pictures of amazing things that Chinese artists do with watermelons. Unbelievable! This is yet another proof to the theory that real artists don’t depend on the media - they can express themselves using absolutely anthing and everything they can find.

This stuff also looks very original and I think they can make a lot of money doing it. VIP party decorations come to mind…

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