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Alpha

Journal Entry: Wed Apr 3, 2013, 4:41 AM

Let's squish some bugs!

alpha

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RX100

by `rotane, Nov 26, 2012, 8:05:38 AM
Personal Journal

I've got a new toy!

You may have noticed a definite lack of photos from me in recent months/years. That was mainly due to my latest camera – the Canon EOS 400D. It was too big and clunky, and as such it was never on me. When I look at my gallery, I count 11 photos that I took with this camera (not counting some devIDs or community projects). And I've had this camera for over 4 years now! (Compare this to the countless of photos that I took with my previous one, the Minolta Z1 that I've also had for roughly 4 years.) I took way more photos with my iPhone 4, but almost none of those ended up here on dA – picture quality never was up to my standards. In fact, I got frustrating just by looking at all the photos I took with it. Nope, something had to change – and here it is: The Sony RX100:

I got this camera a couple of days ago, and I already love it. And man, is it tiny! Here, compare it to my 400D. Yes, definitely pocketable.

Here are some shots that I took with it, minutes after I got it: I walked out of the shop and started shooting, with practically no prior knowledge of how to use the little devil. So what you see here is just a preview. You can click on any of them and view them bigger. Not full-size though, as I had no intentions of uploading over 100MB of photos. (In case you don't know, the RX100 shoots at 20 megapixels – pretty impressive for such a small camera. Also, other than resizing them down to 1600px, no further edits were made; no sharpening, no colour corrections, no noise reductions, no nothing.)

As you can see, it got night-time pretty quickly, but the camera had no problems with that. And I didn't even use a tripod!

Some more examples of the greatness that is this camera. This is a shot against my window:

And here a 100% crop. Looks like I've got fractals in my window!

And later at night, same window:

Take a look at this shot (again, a 100% crop) that I took of my monitor:

(This was on this page, in case you're wondering.)

The next day:

To sum up, oh yes, this camera is a keeper! I wasn't sure if it was worth the money when I bought it, but now I'm convinced. And most importantly, shooting pictures is fun again!

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Ten

Journal Entry: Tue May 1, 2012, 2:43 PM

ten

Great Scott! 10 years ago today I joined deviantART.
Now I feel old…

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Ticked off

Journal Entry: Tue Jan 24, 2012, 3:49 AM

Yep, no more ¢reative staff for me. In fact, no more ¢reative symbol at all on deviantART. (Yes, you heard me.) But I can't say I blame them for removing this symbol altogether: There were only 4 of us left; and as #creative grew bigger, with more and more people added to work full-time, there was less need to have freelancers around.

But, I'll be honest with you, I'm going to miss my little ¢ next to my username. Mainly because it was so unique. ;] Anyway, I want to thank Ryan in particular, but also the others on the creative team for giving me the chance to work with them for a couple years. I had fun and it always worked well, so I'm not leaving on bad terms.

And rest assured, I'm not going to leave dA any time soon!

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Star Wars Uncut

Journal Entry: Sun Jan 22, 2012, 3:54 AM

STAR WARS UNCUT

In 2009, Casey Pugh asked thousands of Internet users to remake "Star Wars: A New Hope" into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. Contributors were allowed to recreate scenes from Star Wars however they wanted. Finally, the crowd-sourced project has been stitched together and put online for your streaming pleasure. This is a must-watch for everyone who grew up with Star Wars.

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Time Lapse

Journal Entry: Wed Dec 14, 2011, 10:01 AM

TIME LAPSE

Just got back from a hike up the hills around where I live. And the weather was just right for a little time lapse video. Taken with my iPhone 4 and Time Lapse Camera HD. Enjoy!

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Get this!

Journal Entry: Sat Aug 27, 2011, 1:33 AM

GET THIS!

If you've got an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad and are looking for only one game, get EDGE Extended. NAO!

iTunes link - it's currently only $0.99, which is practically a steal.

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nine

Journal Entry: Sat Apr 30, 2011, 3:53 PM

nine

obligatory dAnniversary journal.

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Interview time

Journal Entry: Wed Jan 5, 2011, 2:23 PM

Interview timeA few days ago ^PurpelBlur interviewed me as part of his "Behind the Symbol" series. Check it out if you haven't seen it already: Click to read and enjoy!

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IMDb userstyle

Journal Entry: Fri Sep 17, 2010, 5:50 AM

IMDb userstyle

There's a few things that really agitate me, and one is a sloppy redesign of a website. And IMDb just pulled one. Not only is it ugly*, but more importantly, it's not even complete. Only 2 pages got the treat: a movie's main page, and a person's main page. All the countless of sub pages (movie trivia, forums, front page (!), to name a few) were left alone. I'm asking me, do they want to drive their users away? Or do they think their users won't even notice?

Either way, and to cut a long rant short, I've written a userstyle. I do that with a lot of sites (yep, you guessed, the ones with white backgrounds) but I usually don't share them with anybody else. Why? Because usually it's too much of a hassle to keep them all updated. I've made an exception this time though and thought I'd share it, because maybe someone else is interested. And also for having a reason for this journal (aka: rant).

Go here to grab it:

[link]

FYI: I've written the style in a mere half hour, so obviously it's not bug-free or even complete. I applied it only to the 2 redesigned page types, but parts of it swap over to the other sub pages - so at least they're darker now, too, but not as pretty. I will try to keep it updated though, since after a while of browsing the site I'm starting to dig parts of the redesign, I have to admit. ;]

* OK, what I mean is, simply put, I don't like bright white backgrounds. I keep my room dim lit since it's easier on my eyes, and when staring at the screen for a prolonged period of time (which I have to do for work and stuff) white backgrounds tend to hurt my eyes.

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BtT

Journal Entry: Sat Jun 5, 2010, 3:20 PM

BtT

1: Can Leslie come with us?

B: Go listen to some Trentemøller now, the new album (Into The Great Wide Yonder) is incredible!

3: The movie Black Snake Moan is also pretty cool; go watch if you're 18+.

5: Also, The secret powers of time. More to watch; right now! Thanks ~at-Kapo for the linkage.

PS: This journal is made of sand.

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1000 boots

Journal Entry: Mon May 3, 2010, 4:37 AM

1k boots

Our very own !chadamus just started a totally insane project, and he needs our help, YOUR help! He wants 1000 deviants showing their shoes, boots, or other footwear. (If you go barefoot, by all means, show us a picture of your feet.) Anyway, click the thumb below to learn more (like, why Chad's doing this at all), then go nuts! Cheers!

:thumb162725874:

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eight

Journal Entry: Sat May 1, 2010, 5:01 AM

eight

I'll make this real quick:
8 years ago today I joined deviantART!
w00t old fart == me.

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NEW N0NNAKED

Thu Apr 15, 2010, 3:44 AM

Listening to: Parov Stelar

Since you probably didn't receive a notification about the little skin of mine in your Message Centre (I somehow couldn't check it) here's your update:

deviantN0NNAKED v7 beta 2

_{This is for all you beta testers who can now test deviantART v7 Beta 2}

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creative

Journal Entry: Thu Oct 15, 2009, 1:11 PM

Alright, I'll use this overly simple skin one more time... Just to tell you, I'm now part of the #creative team here on dA, hence the ¢. And, I'm quite excited! :]

That's it that's all, talk to you later.

PS: Thanks to everyone who congratulated me already!

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84:// ӝ

Journal Entry: Fri Aug 28, 2009, 12:10 PM

I had enough of the DD notice on my frontpage, so here's something new. Random. No content. You tell me something.

PS: If you're a gamer go visit Napalm Riot.

PPS: I'm going to go watch Blade Runner now, for the 317th time.

PPPS: Like random pictures? Goto and keep refreshing my img_chan.

PPPPS: If you're not seeing a funky symbol up there you fail the internet. D:

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83:// 4

Journal Entry: Fri May 8, 2009, 2:47 AM

DD #4 hit me yesterday, so I wanna say thanks to !JurgenDoe for the suggestion, `2dazed for the feature, and to all of you who +fav'd it or +devWATCHED me. I really wanted to go round and thank all of you, but it's just too much: I'm facing 206 Activity messages.

Thank you!

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82:// 7

Journal Entry: Fri May 1, 2009, 5:40 AM

It just dawned on me this morning, so I'll make it quick: I've been on dA exactly 7 years! Does this make me old or what.

In other news: I just signed the contract for my new flat the other day!

PS: Care to fight my brute? [link] ;]

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81:// collarbone broken (now with MOAR xrays!)

by `rotane, Apr 9, 2009, 8:03:40 AM
Journals / Personal

Listening to: Trentemøller
Playing: Vector TD

Journal Entry (March 21)
Yeah, no joke. 2 days ago we had some late snow which all melted away by the night and froze, just when I went home on my mtn bike at night - and slipped and crashed.  Xrays said it' broken alright, and I'll have to have an operation next week, too :[

So now I'm on painkillers, waiting for Monday for my appointment in hospital. Needless to say, I won't be on much (typing takes me ages).  But I'll keep you posted.

Update 1 (March 23)
My operation will be on Thursday, so I'll be in hospital from Wednesday to Saturday (if all goes well).

And thanks everyone for you well wishes, it's just a bit hard for me to answer to you all...

Update 2 (March 28)
And I am back!  The operation on Thursday went well, Friday (yesterday) was rather shitty, but today I'm feeling much better. So I'm back from the hospital, back home. Finally. Today was also the first day I felt right again after the accident.  Still, I'll stay somewhat disabled for a couple of weeks, as my right arm is fixed to my body (the shoulder mustn't move).  Sucks a bit, but can't be helped...

X-rays will follow, btw, once I get the chance to photograph or scan them.

Update 3 (April 3)
I'm still on one hand only, but I managed to photograph my x-ray from before the operation with a little help from my Dad. So here we go:

So yeah, that's why they had to operate, put everything back into place and all.

Silent Update 4 (April 8)
Just had my stitches pulled! Also, 1 more week, then I'll have my right arm back. And, I got a new X-ray of my collarbone WITH the plate and screws in it. Must take picture so I can show you.

Update 5 (April 9)
And here we go again, I'm full of metal now:

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80:// Twitter

Fri Mar 13, 2009, 3:08 PM

Yes, I couldn't help it. I moved from Plurk to Twitter. Why? Because you are there! And because there is an iPhone app that works really well, and because it integrates better with Facebook. Now, can anyone suggest me a nice desktop app (Windows) or Firefox extension? That'd be good. Oh, but not Twitterfox please, I hate it for stealing focus all the time -- or do you know a way around it?

Anyway, who else of you is on Twitter that I haven't added already?