Santorini the circular one

Thera satellite map

The coming weeks there will be no posts because we’re going on vaca­tion to San­torini, Greece. The name San­torini was given to it by the Latin empire in the thir­teenth cen­tury, and is a ref­er­ence to Saint Irene. Before then it was known as Kallistē (Καλλίστη, “the most beau­ti­ful one”), Strongylē (Στρογγύλη, “the cir­cu­lar one”), or Thera (Θήρα).
Thera with an area of approx­i­mately 73 km² is form­ing the south­ern­most member of Cyclades group of vol­canic islands in the south­ern Aegean Sea. The Cyclades are part of a meta­mor­phic com­plex area known as the Cycladic Massif, which formed in Tri­as­sic to Ter­tiary time and were folded and meta­mor­phosed during the Alpine fold­ing around 60 mil­lion years ago.

Thera city view

It is the most active vol­canic centre in the South Aegean Vol­canic Arc, though what remains today is chiefly a water-​filled caldera.
The island is the site of one of the largest vol­canic erup­tions the planet has ever seen: the Minoan erup­tion (some­times called the Thera erup­tion), which occurred some 3,600 years ago at the height of the Minoan civ­i­liza­tion. The erup­tion left a large caldera sur­rounded by vol­canic ash deposits hun­dreds of feet deep and may have led indi­rectly to the col­lapse of the Minoan civ­i­liza­tion on the island of Crete, 110 km (70 miles) to the south, through the cre­ation of a gigan­tic tsunami. Another pop­u­lar theory holds that the Thera erup­tion is the source of the legend of Atlantis.

Ramni House

This will be Tristan’s first vaca­tion and in an air­plane. We have pre­pared and planned this well so let’s hope every­thing goes as planned and if not we’ll have to impro­vise. We have rented a nice accom­mo­da­tion called the Ramni House (see pic­ture above). All the arrange­ments were made by Eliza was here (dutch) travel agency.

Up next: Dig­i­tal Living (Part II)…


Absolute power

Prototype game

Ever dreamed about super powers? If you should buy a game tomor­row this is it. You are Alex Mercer, a shape-​shifter with absolute mas­tery over your genetic struc­ture, stalk­ing the streets of NYC, search­ing for your past. The web of lies makes this the biggest con­spir­acy of the past forty years. In you quest for the truth you notice that you’re not the only one with amaz­ing powers; other killers also roam the city.

Prototype comic

A secret war is about to take place in New York. First below the media radar, later a deadly infec­tion runs com­pletely out of con­trol and the gov­ern­ment seizes the media to stop the spread of infor­ma­tion. By this time New York City is under quar­an­tine as mar­tial law is installed, Project Black­watch is in effect.
In this firestorm of combat, car­nage and death you feel quite at home.

You can view the teaser trailer of Pro­to­type here (Movie 98,5 MB)

My game hotlist is now (in random order):

  • Pro­to­type
  • The Last Guardian
  • God of War III
  • Devil May Cry 4
  • Gears of War 2
  • Diablo 3
  • Star­craft 2

When I have actu­ally the time of buying and play­ing these amaz­ing games I’ll write a review right here.

26-06-2009: A friend of mine sent this game­play movie, sit back and enjoy.

Up next: San­torini the cir­cu­lar one


Firefox (Shiretoko)

Icons Firefox 3.5 logo

The release can­di­date 2 of Fire­fox 3.5 is avail­able and con­tains a more detailed icon finally (about freak­ing time). The new ver­sion sup­ports the OMG hi-​res 512×512 icon size. dig­i­tal­ren­dezvous has already some sup­port for Fire­fox 3.5 like drop- and text shadows.


Happy Birthday Little Man

Tristan one year old

My boy has today become 1 year old, is baby-​off and became a tod­dler. So here’s to you my little dude! Happy Birthday


Designed To Entertain

Harman Kardon BDP-10

In our migra­tion path towards a HDMI setup, we will have to exchange our trusty Harman Kardon DVD 22 to a Blu-​ray player and a new 7.1 AV Receiver. We will prob­a­bly end up with a Harman Kardon set-​up again!? Harman Kardon recently released the BDP-1 (U.S.) and BDP-10 (Europe). The player will be able to upscale DVD’s to 1080p and fea­ture RCA and com­po­nent video out­puts, HDMI 1.3a with x.v.Color output, coax­ial out­puts, opti­cal audio output, analog audio out­puts and an Eth­er­net jack.

Harman Kardon BDP-10

It will set you back between €500 and €800 but then again Harman Kardon is known for their design and audio qual­ity. If you’re a fan boy like me here’s a pic­ture to grace your desktop.


Crap I missed it!

Fisker Karma

Fisker Karma is a plug-​in hybrid luxury sports sedan man­u­fac­tured by Fisker Auto­mo­tive which is a joint ven­ture of Quan­tum Tech­nolo­gies and Fisker Coach­build. It was announced in Sep­tem­ber 2007, intro­duced in 2008 and to be sold in the summer of 2009. This eco friendly design and engi­neer­ing mas­ter­piece is avail­able for only $87900
Up next: Designed To Entertain…


End to Seal Trade

Baby Harp Seal

I have writ­ten ear­lier about seal hunt­ing in these arti­cles Cana­dian Baby Killers and No Seals Today. But we have a break­through today: the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment finally voted on Tues­day to ban almost all trade in seal pelts and prod­ucts. The Cana­dian gov­ern­ment strongly crit­i­cized the Euro­pean vote (duh!). This is a huge blow to thou­sands of res­i­dents of coastal com­mu­ni­ties in north­east­ern Canada that have long sup­ple­mented their income by club­bing hun­dreds of thou­sands (900.000 to be pre­cise) of young harp seals to death each spring to har­vest their spot­ted pelts.
Two major points are still exist­ing in the embargo: export trans­mit­ted or trans­shipped through Europe is still allowed (which is not allowed in The Nether­lands and Bel­gium). The embargo will be effec­tive in 2010, then again before the com­mer­cial hunt­ing season. Now let’s see how the WTO (World Trade Orga­ni­za­tion) will react!?


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