Modern C++ books
In my never ending quest of total meters of bookshelves expanded, I have ordered two, relatively recently published books on C++, namely Embracing Modern C++ Safely By John Lakos, Vittorio Romeo, Rostislav Khlebnikov and Alisdair Meredith (Dec 2021), Addison Wesley…
18 years of searching Nikon
The Nikon search portal NikoScope.com is celebrating 18 years this year. Launched back in 2005 and revamped several time since, the website is serving millions of search requests each year from all over the world. The portal is specialized finding…
OTRS helpdesk upgrade
A few notes on upgrading the open source helpdesk OTRS (Open-source Ticket Resource System) Community Edition from version 5.016 (January 2017) to the latest, at the time of writing, version 6.0.40 of OTRS (April 2023). These might be helpful for…
Retro-Cottage in Lower Tatras
Our charming retro-cottage in the beautiful Slovak mountains, built back in 1947 by a relative coming back from Canada to Slovakia, is available to rent for weekends and longer stays. We have been working on and off on “Dvor Hrivko”…
Virtual Gallery with Best of Nikonians 2020
After a month of work on the new Nikonians Virtual Exhibition, using the platform of the Berlin based Kunstmatrix, we at Nikonians are now (16-APR-2021) online with our first exhibition, showcasing 72 great artworks from the finalists and winners from…
Velvia film
Image: An apple tree. November 1999. Nikon F5 and Nikkor AF 80-200mm/2,8D hand held at close to 200mm. Fujichrome Velvia Velvia is a great film. I’ve just recently started to use it, though I am already quite impressed. You don’t…
Ingiald Ill-Ruler, the meanest man of Swedes
Image: The King Mounds at Gamla Uppsala. This is Uppsala which was seat of the Svea’s. The mounds date from different time periods and some are graves, others have had other functions. Recent archaeological works have been executed in the…
Unternehmen Moewe
Image: Agent “Vera” and her two male companions training a landing September 1940 outside of the Norwegian coast using a Heinkel He 115 and a rubber dinghy. Picture allegedly taken by one of the instructors. It is not directly related…
He-115 information
Image: HE 115 from the Finish Airforce. From Viimeinen partio Kannaksella, written by Esa Anttala. See also wikipedia’s entry on the HE 115 He 115 seaplane was a robust, multi-purpose seaplane. It was a two motor, three-seated middle winged metal…