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They did it again. I always enjoy working at Canon events. Only that they could have had a few chairs for staff. My knees still hurt from two day continuous standing.

Well, my vacation is over and today was the first day in the office again. I always end vacations with mixed feelings – it feels good to have leisure time, but I really like to work as well… This vacation I had plenty of time for reading, and I actually “inhaled” 3 books – and … [Read more…]

Well, it seems the folks at e-frontier wanted to do an enticing marketing campaign, but not disclosing any feature of a major new release is quite strange. As rumour had it a while ago, there is really a new version of Poser coming. But neither the release date is given in the press release, nor … [Read more…]

The 3D community is speculating for a couple of weeks on the next release of Cinema 4D. As the Maxon Webpage became unaccessible this morning, rumours immediatly started to surface. A few minutes ago, Maxon went live with the new Version 10 – and since then their servers are pretty much swamped with all the … [Read more…]

Some readers may know that I am working quite a lot lately with 3D software. My main tool is Cinema 4D from the German company Maxon – a package I know since my Amiga days. However I am also workinga lot with e-frontier’s (formerly known as Curious Labs) Poser, a software specialized in creating human … [Read more…]

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Tags are among the most controversial technology developments right now. Though benefits for logistics seem pretty obvious, many people are concerned with privacy issues, fearing that ubiquitous RFID-tags make their data trail even more transparent as it already is. The European Commission has put a quite extensive questionnaire online: The RFID … [Read more…]

In the office we are mostly working with Adobe InDesign, but we have some legacy and 3rd party files created in QuarkXpress. Recently we got some newer Quark files, so we needed to upgrade our old 4.4 version. However it turns out that we can’t upgrade, since the version we own has already been upgraded … [Read more…]

We had a public holiday yesterday so I did some cleanup at home. It turned out that I had two identical CD’s teaching “Progressive Muscular Relaxation” and a beta CD of the new Microsoft Office which was in a magazine a few days ago. I took them both to work and put them on the … [Read more…]

I have the advantage that I can ride to work by bicycle. When I first came to this town almost two decades ago, it took me only a week to buy myself a helmet, since the traffic seemed pretty suicidal to me. Over the years I had several helmets and learned a few lessons (never … [Read more…]