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I got a link to this youtube video recently. It shows a very nice way of image resizing, which also makes me feel a bit uneasy, I guess. I can see the possibilities this technique offers, but I don’t think this should ever be a default way to handle all images. Anyway, watch it for yourself.
I spent a few hours today touring around the Strabrechtse Heide, a 1500 hectare (that’s about 3700 acres) area of heathland between Geldrop, Mierlo, Lierop and Heeze.
It’s really beautiful there right now, since the heather is in full bloom, colouring large parts bright purple.
I took about 120 pictures, of which I’ve uploaded a few.
More pictures here
So I had to do some work this morning/afternoon … After our SAN had a failure earlier this week, we had to fix a lot of things. We hadn’t lost any data, but on quite a few shared folders, all access rights had disappeared.
The best plan we could come up with was restore all data to a secondary volume and copy over the acls through robocopy. The only problem was that our new backup policy turns out to make full backups only once a month, so we had to restore the full backup of July 31 and then restore all differential backups since then in order, which I’ve been busy with all morning.
Since I was confined behind the PC anyway, I decided to go over some of the pictures I took nearly two years ago while on holiday in Italy. I cropped, resized and uploaded about 120 more pictures from that week.
Some of the pictures I uploaded:
I am trying to figure out the “lightbox” plugin I installed today. It should give me nifty features on linking images …
For example this one:
Around 1:30 PM today, we got a few notices popping up in management apps that some network links had disappeared.
Luckily, all links were set up in a redundant fashion, so the actual production environment didn’t really notice a thing.
After some tracing and checking, we were fairly certain that /somewhere/, /someone/ had cut through a fiber optic cable.
Right at that moment, I glance out the window and see a bulldozer driving by. Even though my first thought was “no way”, it turned out to be true.
They had actually cut through the line right outside my window. About 2 hours after the first phonecall to our provider, the people coming to fix it arrived.
At approximately 8:30 PM, all the 24 lines were nicely reattached again.
I’m a very big fan of the Swedish band Dark Tranquillity and I’m also a fan of Lego, so when someone decided to combine the two by making a video clip of a recent Dark Tranquillity song in Lego, I just feel compelled to post it here … check it out!
Well, you know.
Again I failed in keeping up this blog 
I guess I can blame being very busy, but that’s not really the case. I just “forget” sometimes that I have this thing.
And I can’t really promise I’ll do much better either, since I just know that I’ll forget again in a while.
Over the past few months, I’ve been busy with MCSA and doing SQL 2005 as well. Keeps me off the street.
If I happen to get out despite all that, it’s very likely I’ll be dragging along my new digital camera. I bought myself a very nice Pentax K10D and I love it
I put some pics online, both from the initial “playing” I did with it and a daytrip to the beach in Scheveningen when I brought the camera along …
More posts to follow, I hope 
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