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Movie: The Worlds Fastest Indian
If you like motorcycles, wrenching and racing, you’ll probably like this movie. It’s the life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle to help him set the land-speed world record at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.
The movie is nicely done, good quality video and audio with very good clean and calm cinematographics (much unlike you see nowadays). It’s really a feel-good movie and makes you want Burt to succeed, even if you know that Burt really did so in real life. Anthony Hopkins really plays a very fine Burt Munro, and the producers have gone great lengths to make everything look like the real Burt Munro (the real story). The movie is a “bit besides the truth” every now and then, but not much and only to keep the story interesting.
Very nicely done, and a must see in my book.
Think Before You Post
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Stuff to think about
Normally I try to steer clear of any politics, beliefs, or war on this blog, but I could not resist to link to this google video I found, where Arab-American psychologist Wafa Sultan has some strong words to say to (extremist) Muslims on Al-Jazeera. Although broadcast in February 2006, I just noticed it, and I think she has some good points.
Personaly I don’t believe you should interfere with people’s lives if they’re more than 10km away from your home (and they shouldn’t interfere with yours). Say hello to your neighbour and ask how his/her day went. You’ll notice that you can often help or solve your neighbours problems easily. Stop worrying about those people 10.000km away. If their neighbours follow your example, soon the world will be an even better place!
My photo’s on your wall
Hi, I just discovered oypo.nl, an online service for photographers to sell prints of their photographs. It’s a simple concept, where a photographer uploads images, and the website sells prints of these images to anybody who orders them. Part of the commision is going back to the photographer, and to some extent the photographer can decide how expensive his photograps are to the public.Because opening an account is free, and because I think my photo’s are WAY better than most of the material on oypo.nl, I decided to open an account just for fun. If you like to buy my photographs, take a look at them at
The resolution of he shots should give good to very good results on near poster format, and I try to keep the choice simple by only uploading the interesting ones. Have fun!
Welcome www.rolfje.com readers!
Because the update process of my old site was much more hassle than typing a post, I noticed that my blog was better maintained than my site. Therefore I have decided to redirect traffic to my domain (rolfje.com) to my blog. You can still find the original content of www.rolfje.com at http://www.xs4all.nl/~rrolfje/.
Betutteling in Nederland duurt voort
We zijn al redelijk ver in Nederland met de regelgeving. Steeds meer regeltjes die dingen regelen waarvan je zou kunnen bedenken dat als je normaal gezond verstand hebt, dat zelf ook kunt bedenken. Gordels om bijvoorbeeld. Als je dat niet doet, wie heb je er dan mee? Jezelf! Moet de regering nou echt gezonde, volwassen mensen tegen zichzelf beschermen? Ik zeg: natuurlijke selectie toepassen.
Het word natuurlijk wat anders als het gaat om situaties waarbij mensen iemand anders in gevaar brengen. Hard rijden op een motor? Prima, op een lege snelweg. Hardrijden op een motor door een woonwijk? Rijbewijs en motor kwijt. Korte metten. Het probleem is niet het apparaat, maar de bestuurder. Kijk, net zoals die leuke minibikes. Als je daar verstandig mee omgaat, zie ik het probleem er niet van. Maarja, de Nederlandse regering zou de regering niet zijn als ze er niet iets aan doen.
Zelf heb ik zo’n leuke electrische step gekocht een jaar of wat geleden. Als ik er op rijd, word ik lachend ingehaald door kleine kinderen op kleine stepjes. Toch vind de regering dat ik het ding zou moeten “goedkeuren voor de openbare weg” en “verzekeren” en het liefst zien ze vast ook nog dat ik een helm, scheenbeschermers, gebruik. Naast de airbags die op de scooter moeten zitten natuurlijk. Tegelijkertijd kun je met een normaal auto-rijbewijs zonder helm de snelweg opduiken met een trike of quad. Dan moet de quad wel gordels hebben. Lekker nuttig. Over krom gesproken.
Nederland is het gezonde verstand voorbij.
Sharpening, denoizing, smoothing, enhancing, vandalizing!
To every photo-editing, image-manipulating, red-eye-reducing software developer on the planet: Sharpening photographs by default is NOT a good idea! If images aren’t sharp directly from the camera, there was something wrong with them to begin with. Most camera’s nowadays make fine pictures which don’t need sharpening.
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brain down for days
Yup, you’ve guessed it. User error. There I was in my last post complaining that gmail was down, while actually my ADSL modem needed a good reset. At work, I could access gmail, and when I got home, I had the same problem as yesterday. I cleared the browser cache, still no result. Then I resetted my ADSL modem, and presto: I could log in again. Really strange error…
Sorry gmail, my mistake. But yes, I am going to back up my mail now 🙂
gmail down for days
Great, gmail is down for days now. I really hope it will return soon, so I can back up that mail to my server. By going down, Google showed me how much I came to rely on them, while they’re actually unreachable when something happens, and I don’t even have backups of my own mails! I really like gmail and the way it organizes your mail by -ehrm- not organizing it (when it’s up, that is).