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Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Dived Japanese Garden and White Rock yesterday, after refreshing my Scuba diving skills. I’m doing that at New Heaven Diving on Koh Tao, Thailand, a smallness diving operation who do a lot of work in marine life conservancy. I really dig their regular reef cleanup efforts, and their mission to turn more diving schools into marine life conservancy agents. In the process of experiencing the fantastic underwater world, it gives a lot of background to environmental (and underlying socio-economical) problems.
Among yesterday’s highlights were a blue-spotted stingray, porcupine fish, trigger fish, various scorpionfish and thousands of other cute and sometimes curious sea creatures.
I’ve also started using my underwater camera with so far very promising results. I need to work a bit on handling of the cam, but over the course of today’s photos, I am quite thrilled of the results after about just one hour of diving with it. As I didn’t bring my laptop or tablet, uploading those will have to wait until I’m back home in early March — until then some impressions from my phone camera will have to suffice.
Posted in English, Personal, Photography, Travel | 4 Comments »
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
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Tokamak 5 has ended, the house is mostly clean and proper again, so time to post some photographic evidence of what has been an epic sprint.
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Tulips, typical for the Netherlands. Not all of them made the end of the sprint.
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Artur, looking into QtWebkit performance on Plasma Active.
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BBQ, yes, that’s a Brazilian taking care of the veggie grill. (The tricolore shirt is for easier Visa procedures.)
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Kevin, API bitch (his words) and Kanban master.
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Daily stand-up meeting to catch up with others’ activities.
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No comment. (XKCD reference welcome.)
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We know what to do with … pancakes. (Don’t worry, Aaron and the pancake had a wonderful rest of the evening. Pancakes were kindly made by Adriaan.)
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Groupphoto. Taken one day after Dario and Ruphy had to leave, so we don’t look like an Italian-only team. Also clearly a Thursday.
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Primary means of transportation. Looks more stupid in wide-angle.
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OranjePop, one of the concerts. Verdict: Can’t really sing, but surely fun music to listen and watch.
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Posted in Active, English, KDE, Music, Personal, Photography, Plasma | 5 Comments »
Sunday, October 3rd, 2010
Sleep deprived as I am, I figured I’d do something more visual than my usual wall of text (quoting TGEN: "tl;dr", or for the markeys and others blessed with attention deficits, like me right now after a bunch of really intensive days :-)). So here goes the Solid Photo Blog, fresh from Madrid:
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Alex Fiestas (Ale-Ale-Jandroooo), BlueDevil hacker, UFOCoder and kind host of the Solid bunch.
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Categorizer, Bluetooth hacker, new KDE-UDev maintainer and KDE-ES Vice president Rafael "ereslibre" Fernando Lopez. UFOCoder and kind host.
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Kevin "ervin" Ottens: Solid Maintainer, Sprint Kanban Manager and my pillow-talk mate for the sprint (I spare you the details, but notice the ghost behind ervin).
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The cutest youngest aspirant Solid hacker, branched off in Nuremberg.
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 Mandatory group photo, top-left to bottom-right: Dario Freddi (PowerDevil), Will Stephenson (Network Management, openSUSE), Kevin Ottens (Solid Maintainer, KDE Mobile platform dude), Lamarque Souza (Network Management mobile broadband dude), Javier Llorente (openSUSE dude), Alex Fiestas (Bluedevil, upower backend), Rafael "ereslibre" Fernando Lopez (KCategorizedItemView, BueDevil), Albert ‘tsdgeos’ Astrals Cid (KDE-ES presidente, localization expert), Sebastian Kügler (Power & Network Management (Plasma) chrome, KDE e.V. dude, me, myself and I). Background: Our Kanban-based workflow, containing tasks for internal communication and progress-tracking.
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Agustin Benito Bethencourt, Gran Canaria Desktop Summit organizer, ASOLIF contact and generally nice ‘high-level-thinking’ dude. (Missing in the group-photo.)
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Madrid’s Gran Via, early morning.
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Clearly a Power Devil.
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Solid Kanban Wall, the tasks being worked on on sticky notes.
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Hackers hacking.
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It’s a hacker, and it runs on water, man. ON WATER, MAAAN! (But not exclusively.)
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I’ve also uploaded these photos (and a bunch of others) to my FlickR pages, if you’re looking for the full-size versions or more photos, get them over there.
Posted in English, KDE, Photography, Solid, Travel | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
ide  Today while going through some parts of my photo collection, I’ve created a collage of some photos. It was actually more or less accidental since I was choosing photos to be printed and framed, but I couldn’t keep myself from arranging the photos nicely on my desktop. I’m using a dual screen setup on my desktop, and while browsing the photos on the left screen, I dragged the photos I’d evaluate for printing onto the other screen, creating Picture frame widgets displaying them when dropping the photos (this even works for remote files, pretty cool). The work-flow this way is actually pretty close to how I’d do it with real physical object, browsing through stacks of photos and putting a selection aside for further investigation.
The photos I happened to choose are taken in various parts of the world, there’s the old ship in Jamaica, the entry sign to Bora Bora in Brazil, Edinburgh’s castle, the entry hall of a spa in Budapest, a Spanish rooftop, Kevelaer’s basilique and of course a bunch of photos taken in Nijmegen, my home town — notably the perfectly boiled egg.
What kind of fun work-flows did you discover while using Plasma?
Posted in English, Personal, Photography, Plasma, Travel | 5 Comments »
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