Wednesday, November 30, 2005
First batch of 6 photos from Animefest.
Just a note – yes, my cosplay costume is crappy and the hair are curly and not straight, but at least my hair were white and not [...]
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Photography is dangerous
After a bit of sleep, a bit of rest and several hours of working trough all the 293 photographs taken during the 3 days of AnimeFest, I must finally write something about the last day.The last day of the fest (Sunday) was easily the [...]
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Do you want to hear the most incredible “it’s not a bug – it’s a feature” story ever?
After shooting hundreds of megs of RAWs with my Canon 350D last couple of weeks, I noticed a very strange thing – importing this large amount of files from my camera into F-Spot took ages. F-Spot ate memory [...]
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Mad cosplay
More coverage from Latvia’s 3rd Animefest coming up.Todays features were:* Hellsing – a phenomenally great vampire story. This is actually not a movie, but an anime series of 13 episodes – first 6 were shown today and 7 more will be shown tomorrow. It is [...]
Saturday, November 26, 2005
President and people
No time to process new pictures, so one of the oldies is here – our president again, this time from a more interesting angle.Today there was a bit IT conference here – it looks like Latvia finally has a strategy for country [...]
Thursday, November 24, 2005
Cosplay warm-up
The opening of AnimeFest went great – there were few cosplayers and a huge lot of general public. Anime is on the high.The fest was opened by two cute girls – one of them was speaking in Latvian and the other in Russian. [...]
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Otaku girls
Today I am preparing for tomorrows big event – opening of Latvia’s third Anime Festival. A bunch of otaku girls is begging me to cosplay Jiraiya – the super pervert ninja from the very popular Naruto series. I already have most needed components – white [...]
Monday, November 21, 2005
Cann’t tell you more because of the NDA, but is suffices to tell that I no longer plan to move anywhere. A bit sad.
Monday, November 21, 2005
Another tiny note – why is it so that all the Python wrappers for Gnome and Freedesktop related things (GnomeVFS and DBus in my experience) have absolutely no API documentation !!! PyGTK has a nice set of documentation for GTK work, but it doesn’t extend beyond that, sadly. When I was writing SBackup, I had [...]
Sunday, November 20, 2005
Sky burn
One more day without taking a shot, but with a bit of productivity While on the topic of photography, I must say – if you work with photos in Linux, use UFRaw and that other thing. The other thing doesn’t [...]
