Global Warming, CO2, Oxygen, Trees, things like that

I was wondering today, looking at the trees still wearing their leaves, about global warming. People around me are starting to get worried. Women are telling me they are seriously thinking about not having kids.
But, it now being November the 25th, it was 16 degrees Celsius today. So, we are hardly warming our houses, so we use little gas, so we produce less CO2. The trees still have leaves, so a part of the trees probably still make a little bit of oxygen during daytime.
I don't know if it has any influence, we will see. It just crossed my mind. Only time will tell...

Small, smaller, ...

*~A Tiny Glimpse~* is where you can see something about why, well.. ehrrr... ehmm... we are quite small. This is a GIF-animation and quite short.

The one below takes 9 minutes, but worth watching:

(this is supposed to be the video "Powers of Ten", made in 1977. Unfortunately, the video is hard to find at the moment, due to copyright issues of the Eames-heirs, but if you are willing to share your email address at powersof10.com you can still see it)

Colours...

Just the different colours. The colours made by the awkward light of the end of the day. Just an autumn day. Just an ordinary day. Beautiful though.

The tablecloth having the same colours as the surroundings. The leaves under the table. The leaves surrounding the table.

*sigh*

D66 verkiezingsposters: goed Nederlands?

D66 heeft een verkiezingscampagne opgezet. Het gaat hierbij om 'oude liefde' en dat die niet roest. "Eigenlijk bent u een D66-er" staat er groot op één van de posters. Dan volgt een grote lap tekst. Ergens in het midden staat "... vraagt je je wel eens af..." Ja, ik vraag me regelmatig dingen af, maar dat je zo'n fout maakt?
Je vraagt je wel eens iets af. Bijvoorbeeld of de snelle jongens van dat reclamebureau niet iets té vaak een stagiaire inzetten voor het schrijven van teksten. Ik was niet eens de hele tekst aan het lezen, het viel me gewoon op. De fout staat namelijk in de tweede of derde zin van boven in de tweede kolom, dus je oog valt er eigenlijk direct op.
Jammer maar helaas.

Soulvation - Put your Phone in the Air

This is one of the latest video's I partly produced. This video was one to try a lot of different techniques, the use of phonecams was a new one. At first we also shot footage with different types of DV cam, but the 'quality' would destroy the video.
So, we chose to do it with phones only.
I think it became a creative music video and I am curious what will happen in the near future :)

One of my first music videos to produce as production manager was also a Soulvation song: I Wanna Be With You (view below).
This one we shot in Barcelona in a guerrilla style: run through the city and shoot as many beautiful scenes as you can :)
Worked out pretty well I think. A nice and friendly summerstyle video.

Energy War

The Dutch broadcast channel VPRO made a documentary on the ongoing Energy War in this world, mainly stating that we (the 'west', Europe, North-America) are addicted to oil.

Tegenlicht -> Aflevering 1 -> Energy War
Tegenlicht -> Aflevering 2 -> Energy War

The American journalist Thomas Friedman heard the Iranian president Ahmadinejad say that the Holocaust was made up, Thomas was wondering if the president would have dared to say this if the oil price per barrel was below 20 USD instead of above 60. He thought the same when president Chavez of Venezuela told Bush and Blair that they could go to hell.

The first part is about Oil and the short term scenario: petropolitics. The second part is about what will happen and is happening in the world. What solutions are emerging to get rid of the need for oil? What will the world look like in 2020?

Anyway, if you are a native Dutch speaker, you SHOULD watch it. If not, you COULD watch it, as most of it is in English and what is not, is in Russian or Dutch ;) Everybody understands those languages hey? :)

Big Phone Crash

Well, I was quite happy with my SonyEricsson k800i. Ok, it crashed every now and then... but sophisticated software, we know the drill: bugs.
And yes, I wanted to update the software, but I could not find my phonecable so that had to wait. Nothing works anymore, except for one small thing: when you press the on/off button a small red led light shows up behind the plastic glass of the infrared device (see picture below).If you press it once it will show up once and if you press it a few seconds later it will flash for six times. It looks like an error code (like the led light on your motherboard) but nowhere in the manual it is told what it means...

I'll keep you posted.

Ok, just a small thumbnail

Just this small image. Just to make this site a little bit more visually attractive. Just for this moment ;)

Flash 9 beta & Battlestar Galactica

Ok, quick, geeky, useless thing to mention, but I just have to: I finally installed Flashplayer 9 beta for Linux. I still do not understand why I had to 'wait' for the final to come out. Youtube and things work much better now and the page from my favorite TV Series on SciFi finally works (bad thing it wants flash 8, but never mind) www.scifi.com/battlestar/

In case you think I speak of the old series broadcasted in the seventies and the early eighties: you're so wrong. The all new BSG started broadcasting late 2003 with a miniseries (totals three hours). After season 1 and thirteen episodes further they decided to give you the cliffhanger of the century. Season 2 is 20 ep's. The collaboration between the UK based Sky One and SciFi is gone. SciFi is doing it alone now, budget went down (as far as I know), but still.. the ep's before the season break (why?!?! are they mad?) were incredible, after that it was clear a season three got written into the script... (or, well, never mind).

Anyway, just go watch you silly!

DDos thingies, Hacks, World of Warcraft, etc.

Well.. what a week. Doing VERY interesting things for a project which is unfortunately surrounded by secrets (until it is broad casted). So, I cannot reveal anything about that. Than the week is a little bit less interesting.
Anyway, this morning I received an email about our FTP server serving DDos attacks... The thing is that I can see clearly that there have been multiple attempts to break in the server.. but I don't know what to do about it. Then I thought: let's turn on the firewall (that it was turned off in the first place made me wonder). But then the proftpd server cannot get through anymore. I remember reading about it that it is such a hassle to configure the openSuse firewall... but now it is still turned off as otherwise I cannot serve files through FTP anymore (still get it?)

Well then. What's up with the WoW-thingie? Hmm.. I got it running on my Laptop running Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop (that should not have happened as it was supposed to be an office laptop with no gaming capabilities... but where the heart goes...)

The annoying thing is that I cannot get it to run when I use my beloved XGL desktop. I have to switch back to the 'normal' 2D desktopmodus (hey, what can you care about in the first place)

Anyway, that's all for now. Nothing to see here anymore, please walk... ;)