Author: Maarten

All new and shiny

On the interwebs, there’s a fierce war going on to win our loyalty. It’s something you probably use every day, and on several computers. At home, at work and on your mobile phone. I’m obviously talking about a browser. On your work it probably still is IE6 (at teast at my place!) while you’ve been upgraded to IE8 on your

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Deadlocked?

Yesterday, our central heating system broke. I’m guessing it did, as I’m no heater-expert… The little flame isn’t burning anymore, and it’s not coming back on. No matter how hard I try. We kind of figured it would happen some day, as the system was built in back in 1992, and wih an average lifespan of about 15 years, ours

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Pan-o-rama!

I’m still really busy working on the pictures we took during our holiday. Today, it’s creating panoramas by stitching them together. There’s a whole lot of tools capable of doing so, including the ancient Photostich, several paid programs, and my saviour: Hugin. I like! Free to use, maintained by the community and easy to use. What more to wish for?

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What happened afterwards

I left you with a statement about what happened, and this is what. I lost about a year worth of photo’s through a very unfortunate series of events. Firstly, my synchronize-software was inadvertently convinced that the external drive containing the pictures was the ‘destination’ drive, instead of the ‘source’-drive. This lead to the deletion of the last year’s worth of

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