Category Archives: Photos
My Basel bicycle tip
I managed to break the key of my bicycle lock last night.
Tomotec helped me to extract the broken key from the lock for free. Thank you.
Tip: remember to lubricate your bicycle lock at regular intervals!
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Connecting to the Internet from Blantyre
Just got back from visiting family in beautiful Blantyre. It’s rainy season now and there are regular rain showers every other day. Everything is green and lush. The sun is hot. The air is moist. And the shopping centres and outdoor markets of Blantyre are busy with holiday shopping. And except for a couple of [...]
Snapshot from Budapest
A quick snapshot that I took on my daily trek to class:
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Analog Tweet
I found this text on the back of a signpost in downtown Basel:
An example of an analog tweet…
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Return of the Blog
Gigaom recently published an article that highlights an important point. A point that has been resonating through my head since Lift 07:
In this incredible sea of data that surround us, what happens to my data when a service like Twitter or Flickr or FriendFeed is sold to another company.
Gigaom writes:
The cynical me believes that [...]
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How to Resize Photos
My family’s email account in Blantyre was blocked twice in the past week, due to well-meaning but over-sized Christmas and New Year email greetings. Attachments with over 2 MBs. The family is still on a phone line with a very slow connection rate. And downloading emails with a large attachment takes forever and a day. [...]
Also posted in General, Malawi, africa, blogger, blogging, flickr Tagged change size, flickr, gimp, irfanview, jpeg, Malawi, ms paint, paint, picasa, resize photos, slow internet connection 3 Comments
shadow on the wall
Photo walking is more fun when conditions are not quite as cold as yesterday (about 3 degrees plus and windy).
Older snapshot from a recent trip to Hannover:
Text Snippets Circling Around
Pêle-mêle off the top of my head:
Learnt yesterday:
The number of English-speaking Internet users is decreasing, currently at about 35% of total number of Internet users.
Shared yesterday:
Who writes about African technology developments? From the list, I follow White African, Afrigadget, and sometimes Google Alert points me to IT News Africa.
Photo processing software for Ubuntu:
I’m [...]
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Blogging is so 2004
LOL at this Wired article!
Thinking about launching your own blog? Here’s some friendly advice: Don’t. And if you’ve already got one, pull the plug.
I agree with the author. Blogging is so 2004. For the record: I installed WordPress on this server in September 2004. Time to pull the plug.
Follow me on Twitter, Facebook and Flickr [...]
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Architecture Tour “Birsstadt”
As seen previously on my Flickr stream, I stumbled across this poster:
I took part in two architecture tours this weekend organized by Architektur Dialoge as part of the Les Journées de l’Architectures.
Birsstadt
I’ve uploaded a couple of snapshots of yesterday’s tour through Basel-Land. It was “off the beaten track” and lots of fun. During the [...]
Tagaroo and other links
Pêle-mêle off the top my head:
In my daily reads, I stumbled across a Wordpress plugin called Tagaroo. It reminded me of Zemanta. I haven’t tried it out. But I guess the interesting part is that it is being sponsored/developed by media giant Thomson Reuters as part of the Calais project.
As usual I’ve been taking lots [...]
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Mulanje
I just surfed through lots of cool new photos in the Malawi group on Flickr.
Including these photos of Mulanje mountain by Lisa de Vreede:
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Swiss Peeks
Just a link to support a great Flickr project:
Swiss Peeks is a series of books of photographs taken in Switzerland. The books, published twice each year, contain photographs by amateur and professional photographers alike, which have been shared online and submitted specifically for inclusion in the books.
Orchard of old varieties
i went a-photowalking and learned about a project that is collecting and growing old varieties of fruit.
The Summer of 08
As a gentle drizzle sets in, I’d just like to dump a couple of carefully composed poetry text snippets here at Chiperoni headquarters.
So far this summer of 08 has treated me well. I’m spending every weekend with my latest gadget: Shooting photos with my Canon 40D. There’s a lot to learn. And try out. [...]
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Basel Rhyhafen
i went a-photowalking again
Workspace of an artist…
Just a quick note pointing to some snapshots I took on Saturday in Martin Gyger’s studio.
I like seeing other people’s workplaces…
Martin told me that he will be moving into a new workspace very soon, but before he moves out he’ll organize an exhibition. I forget the exact date but this should be some time [...]
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Puzzled
This t-shirt text puzzled me this morning…
ZIM
TST
ERN
I figured it out after a while but at first I kept associating ZIM with Zimbabwe.
I’ve uploaded two batches of snapshots to my Flickr stream. I’m a snapshotter at heart and I’m not spending much time correcting or editing my work (yet).
Unhindered by talent or technical skills, [...]
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Working for one week in SF
I’ve uploaded my wild snapshots of San Francisco covering smoothies, books, bikers, shopping, browsing magazines, coffee, cars, Ocean Beach, the hotel, buildings, streets, public transport, signs, Lufthansa and waiting.
Flickr slideshow
BTW, I didn’t see a single Clinton 08 poster, I did see several Obama 08 posters and a guy selling Obama buttons. I guess, it doesn’t [...]
HHI school hall