rocket

as my best friend calls them. i like english churches. e.g. that one in patrington in east yorkshire...

wierd wired

another day we want to a huge pc store to buy a pc solution of wireless. everything looked so easy and i was stupid enough to say, yes, we will just buy that pc adsl wireless router and two pc cards and it should work. what a surprise, it is not. i knew something about networking but after four hours, i gave up and went for a walk and a nice phonecall. i can now post this thanks to my airport which just works. as his steeveness says, no configuration, no nothing.

my new toy traveled from shanghai to luxembourg four days and stayed there for three hours only.

the right left side

i'm in good ol' england! we took a flight (or it was more like a jump; i closed an eye for a moment and read a bit of auster and we were already landing) to luton. then i drove about two hours up north on m1 and got off in rugby. by mistake i had a chance to drive in lovely english countryside, too. then there was a show off time as i made the house we're staying wireless in a minute.

instant

my digital camera just got very serious concurrent. i was given an old polaroid camera. it is cool. i can't wait to look in shops for a bunch of photo papers. the model is so advanced. has everything modern cameras offer, including a timer and switching beeps off.

i haven't discovered where does the thingy take its power from! if there's a power cell inside, it's been doing fine in a basement for a few last years. at least i don't see any solar cell outside!

i go googling for a manual...

update: i've just bought two cartrigdes and was assured that the supply is definitely not dry. the price was also surprisingly reasonable; almost exactly one euro for a photo. and, one more thing: the battery i couldn't find is actually inside the cartridge. from environmental point of view, this thing is a disaster.

when looking for the manual, i found a nicely made booklet about pinhole cameras. it reminded me an article i read earlier about a guy who made the pinhole camera from his truck.

When Shaun Irving goes on vacation he doesn't have to worry about forgetting his camera -- he'll be driving it.

stormy

two meters of snow heaps? here? me driving 600 km inbetween them this weekend.



somehow i even managed to cross that bridge in the storm.

petrol

i was happy to find out that my car did those 1200 km to norway and back (no, i'm not counting the sailing:) for approx. two full tanks of petrol, each about 40 liters. not exactly true, as i filled up the second one much earlier (definitely before a yellow light) as i was afraid to get stuck in mountains. it gives less then six liters per hundred kilometers. and well, about 150 km out of the trip was driving up at second gear 40 kmph max in slopes and ice with snow chains.



just after there was a little milestone. one meter is just something from here to here so i prefer good looking patterns instead.

ester

well i guess i should publish also another pictures than my car from all sides :)

ecto

i'm on a ferry on my way back from norway. the way back to south was cool so far although i was freaking out a bit in oslo when i missed quite difficult switch to a lane to the ferry terminal. local drivers don't mind a snowstorm and still drive hundred.

i'm just trying a new blogging software, ecto, and so far it looks very cool and probably worth those eighteen bucks. what i like that i can edit a past entry. it can also do advanced formatting like

• bullet list,
• numbered list,
• block quotes,
• justification

although displaying and editing of the basic html formatting is a bit tricky, again. but i have to confess i know less about converting new lines on blogs; blogger does it.

there will be some pictures later... i have to develop them ;)

troll city

pavel asked about trolls. they're across scandinavia but i took some photos in vejen, "the troll city" where i have my danish course.

norway

i am in norway, again. i went here by my car and by a boat. eight hours on a ferry. it was a great money, time and energy saver. going thru sweden means paying for two bridges. the ferry from frederikshavn to goteborg is 640, when another to oslo is 230 only. for 80 crowns i got a cabin to recover.

so i drove approx. 450 km, my longest drive trip ever and the last 20 km in the middle of the night was on snow chains in foggy darkness.

being here is cool.

stylus goes x

i dunno if some techies are reading my blog but epson has finally released mac os x drivers for older large format printers aka stylus pro 7500 i'll be happier to use now.

finally!

aren't they gorgeous? i was waiting for that release since november or so. which one would you pick?