Big Russia blog entry, lack of updates
My apologies for the recent lack of updates, including music album I wish I had time to write and real song of the week. Studies, sauna and other social activities keep me busy, but the main excuse I will hold is a 10-day-long trip to Russia. So as a compensation, I wrote a detailed diary entry of that fantastic trip in the Sweden Blog section. For now it is only available in french but I plan to translate it soon. Also, make sure you have a look at the gallery of photos from Russia!
Apart from that, a few late exciting discoveries. The excellent Hugin/Enblend duo for creating blended panoramas from pictures, as shown on some pictures from Russia. Autopano-sift can theorically be used to find the blend points automatically, but it takes ages with big images so it's faster by hand (it is a Mono application, my first experience with Mono, rather satisfying). nmzmail is another small but useful piece of software that allows indexed (i.e. fast and powerful) search in maildirs, and it is easily started from mutt! Last enjoyable discovery, Fischerspooner's Odyssey, an excellent synth-pop album, "electro with balls" as a friend described it.
