I was entertaining the idea of taking a day trip to either MUC or FRA, but my plan had been foiled by a strike in all major German airports. Thankfully, NUE was not among them, so I headed there. Turned out, the strike was a blessing in disguise, because there were plenty of movements in NUE.

When, if ever, do I get tired of jalapeno bagels from Der Beck? I don't know, but I'm willing to find out. So on my way to NUE, I bought a freshly backed jalapeno bagel to compliment my equally freshly brewed coffee I had with me. I was heading to NUE because the weather was absolutely fantastic: blue skies,...

There are three main reasons why I prefer buying used DSLRs rather than spending money on modern wonders of photographic technology.

Two days before we went to Frankfurt am Main, I bought a Tamron 100-400m F/4.5-6.3 Di VC USD lens. It has been on my wish list for a long time, but the price was too high for me to justify the expense. But as soon as the price dropped, I reached for my wallet. This particular lens was on my radar because I was...

That damn flu! After more than two weeks, we were finally feeling well enough for a much-needed escape to Frankfurt am Main. Fortunately the weather forecast looked promising, and I had a new lens to test in FRA (more about it later), so off we went.

I'm always fashionably late to the party. So forgive me for being the last to get all excited about Restic. Encryption by default, snapshots, deduplication, support for various storage types—Restic checks all the boxes. Not only that, it is also a supremely easy to use backup tool.

Google Translate is great, until it's not. The quality of translation is undeniably impressive, and the apps have some genuinely useful features. But even if you choose to ignore the fact that Google lives off our data, there is a matter of Google Translate not working offline—not on a Linux system, anyway. And even...

Nothing lasts forever, including laptop batteries. But how do you know when your laptop's battery is ripe for a replacement? Easy: install the acpi package (sudo apt install acpi on Ubuntu and Linux Mint), run the acpi -V command, and check the line that looks something like this:

I'm still a wreck, with no improvement in sight. But I schlepped myself to NUE anyway, because there was little point staying on the couch feeling sorry for myself. I hoped that a walk and fresh air would do me good, but I was wrong. Even my favorite Jalapeño bagel did nothing to lift my spirits. And I spilled...

Yesterday, I uploaded 500th photo to Aircraft Photography.

I wish I could write something coherent, but we're still recovering from the awful flu that hit us last week. It will take a long while before we shake off the rest of the illness, that's for sure.

After a fairly unproductive weekend in NUE, both yours truly and his lovely wife are down with the flu. We're are really down for the count this time. I can see the future, and it tells me that I'll be calling my doc tomorrow. Not because I want to, but because I need an Arbeitsunfähigkeitsbescheinigung. On the...