This 160 Megapixel (!) camera from Seitz Phototechnik AG (in Switzerland) takes panorama or conventional digital photographs and uses a optional 1.66 GHz Mac mini with 2 GB of memory connected via Gigabit Ethernet for storing and processing the pictures. Not for the weak-armed (it weighs in at 2.8 Kg without the Mac . . . → Read More: Hi-res digital camera
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This article on StickyMinds.com is about bed bugs (rather than software bugs) and how to react in a crisis. It’s quite interesting at that level, even if you’re not a software developer. But what amazed me is: how big bed bugs are (never having seen one, or been bitten by one) the necessary . . . → Read More: Bed bugs Yesterday after our classes, we looked at an exhibition in the University about the Spanish Civil War and at the University library, which goes back to 1214 when the first Librarian was appointed. Apart from containing over 2700 manuscripts and nearly 62 000 works printed before the 19th century, it also contains . . . → Read More: The library at Salamanca University What connotations does “drop” have for you? As far as I’m concerned, they are negative – you drop a bad idea, for example. Or you might drop your drawers if you have to reveal that you have been caught out. Sales drop off, if a product isn’t successful. If you drop a glass, it . . . → Read More: Just drop it Spain hasn’t been overtaken with modern chain-stores as much as many other countries – the little businesses still survive. This was taken at about 10:00 this morning in Salamanca. We went for a three hour walk around the town and by the time we got back, the streets were packed. . . . → Read More: Saturday morning in Salamanca New studies by NASA show that perennial Artic ice has been shrinking by 6% per year in the last two winters – a rate far higher than has been measured before. In 12 months between 2004 and 2005, an area the size of Turkey disappeared. Turkey is a big country… The rate of . . . → Read More: Global warming is speeding up This week there is a large fiesta going on Salamanca – lots of wine, beer and tapas on offer in the old town, but this afternoon, we spent most of our free time doing homework for the classes for tomorrow morning – about a couple of hours worth… (the lights are on, because . . . → Read More: Studying Spot the dog-head hole When we first came for a Spanish course in Salamanca last May, there was a lot of excitement because a little dog got stuck after putting his head through these railings to drink from the fountain basin. He couldn’t get back and the fire-brigade was called to free him. . . . → Read More: The dog-head hole Around thirty years ago, before we got married, I sold my “fun” Morris Marina with a twin-carb 1.8 litre engine (which, given that cars were much lighter then, went like the proverbial bat out of hell) and bought a Renault 4, which was much less fun to drive, but also had considerably lower running . . . → Read More: Nostalgic car |
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