30 June 08 - 02:58Glamour shots
I think I'm getting the hang of it. Learning how to enhance digital images using Photoshop is a slow process. Keep playing, and playing until you get it right. Well, until you think you get it right.
I'm revisiting my archives to find photo's with potential I might have missed. I hope Samira does'nt mind I used one of her portraits to practice on. :) I'm satisfied with the result. Comments are welcome, though.
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29 June 08 - 02:02Barn doors
Nice! I've just bought some new (second hand) studio stuff!
Two of these babies will nicely fit my strobes. :)
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27 June 08 - 12:30Radiohead's 'Nude' on old hardware
Wow...
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27 June 08 - 03:22Back from France
Well hello again.
Yesterday
evening we returned from a lovely holiday in the sun (and a bit of
rain). We took about a week to travel to the south of France. Passing
through Bourgogne, Auvergne and the Tarn with a tent as a small, yet
comfortable, home.
Read more...
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27 June 08 - 02:51A not so new web site
Ow, crap! It proves more difficult to realize what I had in mind with this domain. Oh well, we'll stay with this for a bit longer then...
(Still working on it, though)
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16 May 08 - 10:43Cartoonist arrested
We are now officially fucked. The Netherlands have joined the ranks of Iran, North-Korea, Tibet and other suppressed regions. The first modern age European country to order the arrest of a critic cartoonist.
Congratulations, religions. Freedom of speech is dead. A big 'fuck you' to all war casualties, 11 days after the WWII memorial. Sad.
The news even made it to the forum on the Richard Dawkins web-site.
I know, I know. The guy is not convicted yet. The point is that the arrest in itself clearly shows the decline of freedom in general in a country that was once one of the most liberal in the world. There is a spiral, and it's downwards.
It puzzles me to see how few people realize this and how many downplay the problem so they don't have to see it. Until it is too late.
(Comments were switched off. Sorry. Go!)
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13 May 08 - 23:07KPN sucks!
When you are able to read this, it means that the technicians at KPN have managed to fix a giant problem in the network core of the 'dutch internet'. KPN wants to have it all.
All salute the take-over business. Yes! Bring everything to the corporates. Take away this stuff, from the smaller companies. KPN knows how it works, and they will serve you.
Well, they don't.
You fucking bunch of cheap ass, know it all, could not care less, this can be done for less money, must be done cheaper, are you sure about that, what do you mean 'fall back', is not that too expensive, we know what is good for you, do not worry, we will repay you, goddamn shit for brains leather seat sweaty boardroom assholes everywhere; You do NOT know how it works. You are a menace to people and businesses.
Aaaah, glad to get that off my cheast 
[upd] We're back online after more than 36 hours downtime.
[upd] And we're down again...
[upd] And back up after more then 48 hours
What a shame to see top-quality internet providers like Demon and XS4all go down the drain because of these take-overs. Thank you KPN. Thank you for murdering quality.
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26 April 08 - 14:32The 'Leave me alone' box
What people do with their spare time. LOL
Simple, yet brilliant.
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26 April 08 - 04:16Birthday party
Damn! :) Did I have a nice birthday party. Playing with the band, getting presents, loads of friends, 'lost' friends, people I never met, booze and music. It could have been worse :)
Thanks to all who attended for the great evening.
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20 April 08 - 03:17Shipwrecked Whisky
I know a guy who is best described as 'brother in law', although neither of us is married to the sisters we love so dearly 
He gave me a taste of a rather special whisky.
The story is that a vessel carrying a load of whisky sank on the New Waterway (Nieuwe Waterweg) while heading for Japan. Its payload was destined to end up in one of the famous Japanese whisky blends. It did'nt get really far. The cargo was sold to a Dutch whisky trader who later marketed the stuff under the name 'Burn of Speyside'. Being an unfinished product, it was difficult to find out where the stuff originated from. It's whisky that is not finished, it's more like an ingredient. They found that the distillery responsible for this 58.4% alc. killer is the Balvenie distillery in Dufftown, Schotland.
To make a long story short; I've got a bottle of the stuff.
Thank you, Esther. Ghehe.
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