| Saturday, December 19th, 2009 |
| 7:41 pm |
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| Sunday, November 29th, 2009 |
| 10:59 pm |
I had a little surprise for TaniDaReal and Lynard yesterday. I made them pawpet-heads as a birthday present:  Current Mood: artistic |
| Thursday, November 26th, 2009 |
| 10:54 pm |
Playing with the new camera
I bought a second camera lens (cheap Tamron AF 70-300mm) and tried to improve my photos (while taking them in manual mode - and afterwards with the demo-versions of DxO and Lightroom). Here are some results:  300mm without optical stabilizer - not bad for a cloudy day. ( More photos... ) Current Mood: artistic |
| Sunday, November 15th, 2009 |
| 8:10 pm |
Cologne Furdance 4
 I arrived 19:40 and entered the building 21:00. Registration took really long this time. It was worth waiting. The music was great and I had lots of fun. I played with my new camera and danced as Sparks. What I learned about my new camera: - Loud bass kills the sound in video-mode - 3D-tracking works well with fursuits - I can take over 600 pictues (about halb of them with flash) with one battery - My old tele and hd conversion lenses do not produce good results with this camera Current Mood:  happy |
| Saturday, November 7th, 2009 |
| 8:10 pm |
New camera
I got my new camera today, it's a Nikon D5000.  I always wanted to make HDR pictures. Current Mood: artistic |
| Sunday, October 25th, 2009 |
| 1:35 pm |
Spiel 2009
Yesterday at the the world's biggest consumer fair for gaming:  Furvan and I were most of the time near the LARP area. ( More pictures... )I bought the Guarnido sketchbook and some small figurines (Chip & Dale, Remi,...) Current Mood: happy |
| Thursday, October 8th, 2009 |
| 9:46 pm |
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| Monday, October 5th, 2009 |
| 9:50 pm |
H-Con 2009
I think I ate too much at H-Con. I did not do much except relaxing, eating and talking with friends. It's the first time that I did not make a photo at a convention. Current Mood: happy |
| Saturday, September 26th, 2009 |
| 5:41 pm |
Server down
My server started beeping yesterday - according to the beep-code the motherboard is defect. Time to replace that machine. Current Mood:  annoyed |
| Monday, September 21st, 2009 |
| 9:43 pm |
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| Monday, September 14th, 2009 |
| 5:17 pm |
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| 5:03 pm |
Eurofurence 15
I'm a bit late with my con-report. Eurofurence was mostly a fun time for me, but several people seemed to have bad luck with their health this year. I got a mild cold saturday evening - just a sore throat. That's why I wasn't fursuiting sunday and didn't talk much (which probably no one noticed since I'm not very talkative anyway). Look, it's Jimmy walking into a fursuit-fotoshoot:  ( More photos... )Next year I have plan more. I missed some events I really wanted to see - like the concert. Current Mood: happy |
| Sunday, August 23rd, 2009 |
| 10:29 pm |
Sparks
I finished sewing the fursuit and costume:  Current Mood: artistic |
| Monday, August 17th, 2009 |
| 10:43 pm |
EF preparations
 Sparks is almost ready for Eurofurence. Current Mood: happy |
| Saturday, July 11th, 2009 |
| 7:03 pm |
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| Sunday, June 28th, 2009 |
| 4:42 pm |
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| Friday, June 26th, 2009 |
| 6:26 pm |
OpenSolaris and a netbook
The battery of my old notebook is nearly dead and a new one costs about 100 euro. I only need it to be mobile then I travel (mobile internet or image-tank for my camera). That's why I bought a cheap 8,9" netbook (a Acer Aspire One A150X - 1,6GHz ATOM, 1GB, 160GB) as a replacement. It came with Windows XP Home preinstalled - after some cursing and deleting a lot of crappy demo-software I managed to make it usably. Then made a complete image of the harddisk (just in case something goes wrong - I don't want to start with the original installation again). Next I booted from a external DVD-drive and changed the size of the second partition from 146 to 100GB (BartPE-CD with Partition-Magic). Using the OpenSolaris build 111a LiveCD for Eee PCs from Masafumi's Blog: http://masafumi-ohta.blogspot.com/2009/04/latest-opensolaris-build-112a-livecd.html I installed the operating system (with the text based installer) on the now free 46GB. Most things worked perfect out of the box (graphic-card, lan, wlan, audio, camera, usb). Only the sd-card-reader on the left side needs a driver-update (the one on the right side works). I added several repositories for software-updates (blastwave, sunfreeware,...) - Installed Netbeans, OpenOffice, VideoLan (LWS-Version that I copied from my other machine - I do really miss the repository LifeWithSolaris), a lot of gstreamer codecs, Songbird, ... Updated to build 111b. There's still plenty of space left on the harddisk and I'm really impressed how good it handles under OpenSolaris. I tried some of BBF's 720p mp4 videos - no problems at all. Sound quality is good - the windows driver doesn't do so well (generates noise). I got to like the ZFS filesysstem - It's really handy to go back to an older snapshot when you realize you didn't want do delete "that" file. There were some minor problems, but nothing that was hard to fix - like Firefox crashes because of some gstreamer plugins (found those easily with gst-inspect). Current Mood: geeky |
| Monday, June 1st, 2009 |
| 12:08 pm |
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| Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 |
| 4:29 pm |
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| Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 |
| 9:27 pm |
MMC 12
Driving with my hare-fursuit besides me:  The convention was fun - Look at the pictures: ( Fursuit-pictures ... ) Current Mood: happy |
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