Last month, we took two days off, and spent a well earnt holiday at Nieuwpoort. Amazing what has changed over there : the place after residence Meeuwenbank was an old tram passageway, which has really declined over the last 10 years. Now, a park has been constructed there with some really weird blue neon lights, which give the place a surreal feeling at night.
It's spider time ! Hundreds big and small spiders are around and in the house (the big ones especially *in* the house).
We visited Maanrock, a festival in Mechelen, last weekend, featuring bands like Dog Eat Dog, Buscemi and Krezip. The most remarkable thing I remember, though, were the giant waffles they sold (30 or 40 cm long), and the regret I still feel I didn't ordered one ;) Very nice city also, Mechelen, and as clean as Leuven too.
A picture of my Sun Ultra-10 workstation at work, running the sparc version of Debian. Very good picture, because it doesn't show the mess on my desk ;)
On our way back home from Lanaken to Leuven...
Boy, do I hate this machine : it's our Sun StarFire (aka E10000) hosting some of our most critical infrastructure servers. It is also the one most crashing prone, which was again demonstrated today :( Again a bad day for being a sysadmin...
We visited the Beach party in Glabbeek last Friday, which featured a gig by the Levellers. Great feel-good music, and a nice environment for a concert - for once not crowded and jam packed with people. Gorki played before The Levellers, but dissapointed on a major scale : I allways have found their music to be all alike, and their last album tends to harder rock music, whereas their best and most famous songs are slower ones.
The Simple Minds were headliners on the Suikerrock festival in Tienen, so this was an excellent chance for a shot of nostalgia. We arrived pretty late, only to discover that the concert had already begun, so we decided to skip the 15 Euro entrance fee, and simply wait half an hour untill security opened the gates. After the Simple Minds concert, we visited some of the smaller podia, like the Bakstage, with a concert of DJ Sven Van Hees (see the picture in the Snapshot box). Too bad we missed out Buscemi or Vive La Fete...
Another snapshot of the moon, and one that clearly shows how difficult photography of moon and planets is : the most interesting parts are fairly faint, as the craters on top of the image. However, the brighter middle part of the moon allways gets too illuminated, so the details get lost in a sea of light. The result is often a picture without any details : underilluminated faint parts, and overilluminated bright parts.
The image has been digitally remastered : first, I decreased the overall contrast, which equalized the brighter and fainter parts, and then I used a sharpening filter, which restored the details lost by the contrast filter.
The German site of Christian Bruenig focusses on the weird and intriguing architecture of industry locations throughout Europe. Check out these marvellous night pictures !