Each time when I saw books from the “For Dummies” series, I wanted to come up with a broader set of topics for John Wiley & Sons.
At last I got to do it. I give the ideas away for free, no royalties required.
For Dummies
Post Nubila SolPt. 3. Das ist noch in Fluß
This is the third and the last part of the Post Nubila Sol trilogy. It’s composed, recorded and mixed by me in the same 2002. Genre: Electronic/Dark/Ambient/Progressive Metal.
A new look
Yesterday I survived laser eye surgery, which was quite an act for me.
I was thinking about it a long time (money was another concern, of course), and it would apparently go on and on for indefinite time, but a chance turned up made me resolve to try.
Interview with Daniël de Jong (Desperados)
Tonight I surprised myself. It all began when my materials about Dias Latinos, the footage in particular, were all of a sudden highly evaluated by the Desperados band, mentioned in the above post. The frontman Daniël de Jong asked me if I could give him the original footage to use it for their promo package. We’ve met, started chatting and… then I decided I could make an interview out of it.
Watermarking pictures for Picasa Web Albums
Preface
Those of you who happen to author pictures and publish them on the Internet, must have thought about being able to claim your authorship for them.
One of the most obvious ways to do that is watermarking pictures by adding your URL, name, copyright and/or copyleft. An average Joe would open his favourite image editor, click the Text tool and write a magnificent message for the generations to come.
Dias Latinos 2011
From Friday the 19th until Sunday the 21st August 2011 a traditional Latin-American musical festival Dias Latinos (“Latin Days”) was held in Amersfoort.
Post Nubila SolPt. 2. Innalzamento
This is the second part of the Post Nubila Sol trilogy. It’s composed, recorded and mixed by me in 2002. Genre: Electronic/Ambient/Progressive Metal.
Non-European
The story I’m going to tell you this time is not about how a Russian sees Europe, but the other way around. I’ve been in my home city Tyumen for two weeks, and it’s noteworthy (although logical) that after three years in Holland I’m noticing now more peculiarities in Russia than there.
Gnome/Unity random wallpaper script
Note: this script will not work in GNOME 3 and Ubuntu 11.10; for these systems you have to use the new version.
This bash script picks up a random image file (.jpg, .jpeg or .png) from the predefined directory and sets it as wallpaper.
Post Nubila SolPt. 1. Ad Libitum
This track was written by me in collaboration with Igor Abakumov back in 2002. Those were our first, and up to now also the last, feeble attempts of Progressive Metal composing.
The name is Latin for “After the clouds there is sun”, which symbolizes contrast vicissitudes of mood in the tune.
The future is here
The Chinese technology is amazingly advanced. So MP5 player production is in full swing:
The new old blog
Some planned changes have been made to the blog.
As it has matured, it moved to my own domain, and the new URL is: blog.yktoo.com.