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Adobe Customer Support — A Tale Of Woe
The kindest thing I could possibly say is “there is potential for improvement”. Earlier this year, I decided to quite Adobe Photoshop Elements, in favour of a photo-centric Adobe CS solution, containing Lightroom and Photoshop. On the positive side: the capabilities of this suite, especially Lightroom, goes way beyond what you can do with Photoshop…
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So… Labour is losing the plot as well.
Watch out: here comes an opinion. So, in England, if you wear a keffiyeh, you can be arrested ant taken into custody by the police. Apparently, it has recently been arranged by the UK government that it is okay to do so. Or, if you’d have worn this you could have been unceremoniously thrown into…
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October: Some forgotten stuff from September, and continued dust biting
Let’s get the dust biting stuff out of the way first. First, another member of the extended family passed away pretty unexpectedly — we just posted a get-well-card, but she never got to see it. Sjaak Voorn And then, on October 29, after having suffered from cancer since forever ago, Sjaak Voorn finally turned off…
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Why I don’t hate AI
There is a current trend, most notably among artists, but also by the general public, to hate AI and the horse it rode in on. This post aims at (hopefully concisely) explain why I do not fully subscribe to that. AI is a tool. Like all tools, its usefulness is determined by how it is…
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Charging a Sony WH1000 Mk3
I own a Sony WH1000 Mk3. Like (apparently) many others, I have wondered how to get the thing to charge. Liker so many of us, I wondered why, very often, the charging light would go on for what? 10? 15? seconds, and then turn off. After suspecting cables, power supplies, and eventually things like ambient…
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September — volunteer stuff, coding, and more dust biting
First: On September 29, we lost another member of the extended family. This should explain why this instalment is somewhat late — the ceremony was last Monday. So, what else transpired? As I said in the last instalment, I was working on a Windows service to automate the handling of subscription requests from the blog…
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On how we deal with time
The concept of time, how we perceive it, and what we can do with what is given us. The day before I started writing this, someone talked about “killing time”, and was then asked by someone else what that actually means. This set off a train of thought… and like trains of thought tend to…
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August: a quest, and clouds on the horizon
August started off calmly. I did some overdue bike fixing (lost fairing bolt, slight but noticeable radiator leak), then gathered my stuff, and went on a four day motorcycle trip. My first vacation alone in over 35 years. The Protagonist’s Quest This went approximately as well as could be expected. On the first day, I…
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July: aaand we’re back!
Many good things happened, most of them caused by an increase in mental energy. The effect of the medication I stopped back in May is wearing off, and I really feel like doing stuff again! So, what did I do? First thing is, Janny wanted something to watch birds with, but also possibly planets and…
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The Poor Man’s Home Photo Studio
I have a little budget-on-a-shoestring photo studio setup here. It went through several stages, mostly stages of woe, until I settled on what I use now. I started out using various cheap RF camera triggers, and corresponding receivers for the flash units, a flash meter, two secondhand flashes, cardboard home-made light shapers (soft box, snoot,…