Monthly Archives: February 2005

intrigued by an image in an intermediate guide to digital photography by john clements demonstrating how to turn a photo into an “ink drawing” using various photoshop filters, i set out to accomplish the same with gimp…i took one of … Continue reading →

having done a bit of de-cluttering on my website, i wanted to redirect queries to a whole set of pages to a single page…no, problem it seemed: use something like apache’s Redirect directives, put it into an .htaccess file and … Continue reading →

it’s quite cold outside (-10.8C when i left home) and i’m glad that the train to stuttgart is well heated. i pick up with the my trouble with the citynightline online ticket series where i had to leave it yesterday … Continue reading →

the weekend trip to north germany to visit my family there had to be cancelled due to illness (not me). as i had booked online tickets for the train trips to bremen and back, i first log in to my … Continue reading →

while fetching some mineral water from the marylebone waitrose on marylebone high street yesterday evening i noticed that a new fish monger-cum-restaurant, fishworks had opened two shops away from daunt books…so, after a browse through daunt books — which must … Continue reading →

for my first blog i used the (x)emacs based blogmax — being an avid xemacs user that was a good tool to get started really (and my current layout is inspired by the default blogmax layout, really)…there were some issues … Continue reading →

today’s guardian has an interesting comment piece by sami ramadani on the baffling similarity of last weekends statements by the GW bush administration on the elections in iraq and of the 1967 statements by the johnson administration on the southern … Continue reading →