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 yellow (like the other guy that cosplayed Jiraiya had) and I was true to Jiraiya’s pervert spirit (P.S. No laws were [...]
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 best. The morning was a bit disapointing as [...]
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 [...]
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 not too scary – the good guys are [...]
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 wide growth capitalising on knowledge. The plans look sound and [...]
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. At first they were translating each others lines both then [...]
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 hair (false) and a pervert mind (true). It [...]
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 even have a preview when converting, but the UFRaw can autodetect a white [...]
