http://www.caperet.com An eclectic mix of technology, news comment, and personal notes. Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:18:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We closed off our balcony last summer by having double glazed windows installed with aluminium frames. We were left with a kind of “jardin d’hiver” or veranda - a room that you could enter via what was the outside balcony door, but that had no floor or wall insulation and ... http://www.caperet.com/2008/04/24/renovating-the-flat/ I’ve mostly been updating news over at Flickr lately. Or rather, posting photos to Flickr and possibly including information worth reading underneath them. Time constraints and other things mean that I’m not particularly productive on blog posting of late. If you’re subscribed via RSS, you can get both blog updates and ... http://www.caperet.com/2008/02/16/its-mostly-happening-at-flickr/ I’ve been influenced by a number of piano players. My paternal grandfather and my father both played a lot when I was a child - my father still does. A few of the schoolteachers I admired played a mean piano. Billy Joel, Elton John and Stevie Wonder are musicians I ... http://www.caperet.com/2008/01/09/im-just-the-piano-player/ I’ve added recent photos from my FlickR account to the RSS feed, so if you read me via email updates or RSS you should now get photos when I update them as well. We spent Christmas in Marrakech, and most of the recent photos were taken there. Unfortunately, Yasmina’s grandmother Ginette ... http://www.caperet.com/2008/01/08/happy-belated-new-2008/ Here is a set of a few clips I took with my mobile phone yesterday. They were edited together using Avisynth and processed with Virtualdub (both free). Since my mobile phone records in 3gp format, they also needed converting via a piece of free software. Here’s the result. Three related photos ... http://www.caperet.com/2007/12/10/nathans-sunday-morning-outing/ This was shot a while back, thought I’d share it with you. A performance at the office. Cathaly is singing, I do a bit of backing vocals & play the guitar (um… obviously). http://www.caperet.com/2007/11/29/faith/ Nathan loves the park close to home, where he can play on the slide, a rocking horse on a spring, and a sort of spinning top. Even now with the colder weather, it’s great to get out and watch him run around and climb up to the top of the ... http://www.caperet.com/2007/11/06/playing-on-the-slide/ Just what is it that makes Flickr stand out from other sites, so that it can boast an impressive 2,000+ photos uploaded per minute? That’s 2,880,000 a day, and over a billion - or a thousand million for those who think a billion is a million million - per year! Their ... http://www.caperet.com/2007/09/29/more-on-flickr-save-or-cancel/ Flickr is a photo sharing site that was bought up by Yahoo! back in 2005. I had a few photos on Yahoo! photos from about 2001, and they’ve now been migrated to Flickr. This encouraged me to explore a little, and without further ado here are a few pictures to ... http://www.caperet.com/2007/09/24/discovering-flickr/ There’s a joke database on this site. Every now and then I get a new joke and I update the 200+ jokes available. One came in yesterday that I thought I’d share it here. There are more pilot conversations like it in the database. The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport ... http://www.caperet.com/2007/07/12/pilot-conversations/