http://www.kareldonk.com/karel Welcome to my homepage Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:55:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Nikon has announced their second full-frame camera body, the D700, and it looks like they have a killer product on their hands. I'm not going to write about all of the details here, you can get more information from these links: Nikon D700 Brochure, Nikon D700 Page, Preview on DPReview, ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2008/07/01/nikon-d700-announced-canon-in-deep-shit/ I mentioned this before on my blog here, but it looks like it just got worse. In case you didn't know, Al Gore, the man who would like you to use less energy, think of the environment and is scaring everyone with global warming bullshit, owns a house that uses 20 times ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2008/06/21/al-gore-the-global-warming-hypocrite/ I've been meaning to write about this for a long time now. And today, after reading this article on Jim Gray, I thought of finally writing about him on my blog. If you don't know who Jim Gray is, and want a little background on him, check this link. He ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2008/06/04/about-jim-gray/ All relationships are based on expectations. It doesn't matter what kind of relationship it is, or between whom or what the relationship is. It could be a romantic relationship between two people, a partnership, friendship, between businesses and clients, or for a few technical examples, relationships between two tables in ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2008/06/03/love-and-relationships-dont-belong-together/ It was about time I did another photography update on my blog. About a week ago I had the opportunity to do another shoot with a model. Nothing too fancy, just a simple shoot for her portfolio. It was her first time modeling, and I think she has great potential. The shoot lasted for about 5 ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2008/06/01/photography-update/ It looks like Ron Paul might be a Freemason. I can't say I'm surprised. This explains why he could seem so intelligent and take good positions on many subjects, and yet, when it came to one of the most important subjects, sound completely stupid. This is what I wrote recently: While ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2008/05/14/looks-like-ron-paul-might-be-a-freemason/ After receiving a lot of feedback from my previous post on Canon Quality Control sucking bigtime, I thought it would be good to write an update. Before you read on, please read my previous post including the comments to make sure you know where I'm coming from. A day after my ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2008/04/27/canon-quality-control-sucks-part-ii-judgement-day/ Microsoft is at it again. Back in 2006, I had already written about them stopping support for Playsforsure on new devices, which meant that people who bought music using Microsoft's Playsforsure DRM infection, would not be able to play their music on new devices, including Microsoft's own Zune player. This ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2008/04/25/you-are-about-to-become-drm-roadkill-part-ii-judgement-day/ It looks like everywhere you look on the Internet, you come across messages from various users complaining about their Canon photography gear. The forums at DPreview for example are filled with posts about camera bodies giving the ERR 99 error message, dying very soon after purchase, can't focus correctly out ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2008/04/19/canon-quality-control-sucks/ Even after the release of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows Vista, the operating system has still not improved much. It is practically as slow and resource hungry as it was without SP1. So it's no surprise that business still aren't upgrading to Vista. The only reason why Microsoft has ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2008/04/14/after-sp1-windows-vista-still-sucks/ I recently completed an assignment for one of the directors of Torarica Group of Hotels. He wanted a picture of the building of each of the 3 hotels that they manage to put on one of the walls in his office. The only requirement he had was that the pictures had ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2008/04/03/photo-assignment-torarica-buildings/ After a rather long while I was able to take some of my free time again last Sunday and spend it on an afternoon of photography. Together with Jimmy, a friend who I got to know not too long ago, I went out and strolled through Paramaribo armed with some of my ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2008/03/18/a-photowalk/ March 15th 2008 is Z-Day. That's the day when there will be screenings of the movie Zeitgeist everywhere around the world. I wrote about this movie before. If you haven't yet seen it, you should take the time to check it out. It's available for download for free from the ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2008/03/12/z-day-is-here/ So far I've written a few posts about Ron Paul here on my blog, all very positive, as I found myself agreeing with most of his views. His message of freedom is very popular, and many people have supported him because of that in the last few months. However, his ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2008/02/13/the-end-of-ron-paul/ Many people are of the opinion that life is beautiful. Most of them will even take the time to explain to you why they think life is beautiful when you tell them that you have a different opinion about it. They'll start naming many different things that should be seen ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2008/01/25/a-world-of-pain/ Bill Gates essentially admitted recently that Windows Vista sucks. He even laughingly joked about it: In a fairly frank interview with Gizmodo, Gates was asked if he thought there any Microsoft product that "could have had more polish." ... Instead Gates replid: "Ask me after we have shipped the next version of Windows”. The ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2008/01/11/bill-gates-windows-vista-sucks/ Photographer Dan Heller is sending shockwaves around the Internet with his recent series of blog postings about the Creative Commons licensing model in relation to photography. Highly insightful reading material. Thinking about using a picture with a Creative Commons (CC) license? Thinking about putting up your own pictures online under ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2008/01/07/dan-heller-on-creative-commons-licenses/ I just came across this video of Ron Paul on Larry King, which, as it appears, was not aired in what was probably another attempt at censorship of the Ron Paul campaign. And here's a direct link to the video on YouTube. When you watch the video, it should be ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2008/01/03/ron-paul-kicks-ass-on-larry-king/ The second part of the movie "Steal This Film", which I wrote about before, is now available for download. You should check it out. http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2008/01/01/steal-this-film-ii/ Back in October I did some photography for the next edition of United Business and Lifestyle Magazine. The launch of the 9th edition was last night, and it should be available next week in stores in Suriname and the Netherlands. Edward Lee, who is the editor and art director for ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2007/12/30/united-business-magazine-photoshoot/ Last Sunday was almost a day long of photography for me. I had a photography assignment at the opening of the new Royal Torarica 4 star hotel. Part of the event was in the morning to the afternoon, and there was a reception at night. It was a good chance ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2007/12/28/photography-opening-royal-torarica/ I recently mentioned how I was afraid that Ron Paul might get assassinated when he becomes too big a threat to the current establishment in the USA. And now it appears that they are already discussing it: Best-selling author and Bilderberg sleuth Daniel Estulin says he has received information from sources inside ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2007/12/16/ron-pauls-assassination/ If you've been reading this blog for a while, you already know what I think of Windows Vista. And it's not just me, but many others are dealing with issues with Windows Vista every day. If it's not the defects in the software, then Microsoft just decides one day that ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2007/12/10/windows-vista-is-horrible/ My new website has just been launched at www.kareldonk.com. Feel free to take a look. It contains the latest information about the services I have to offer as well as updated portfolios. I've been working on the site in my spare time for about 2 months now, and it was ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2007/12/09/new-website/ It's a real joy to see the donation meter on Ron Paul's website climb almost every minute. Looks like he is very much on track to reach his 12 million goal by December 31st. Not only is he raising a lot of money, but he is currently the biggest GOP fundraiser: Ron ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2007/12/01/its-all-about-ron-paul/ Whether you're a beginner, amateur or professional photographer, I'm sure you'll find photographer Dan Heller's website very useful. He has a wealth of very insightful and useful information on there in a series of articles about photography. He also has a blog which also contains some very good information on ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2007/10/24/dan-heller-on-photography/ Internet lawyer and European patent attorney Arnoud Engelfriet (blog) has a very interesting website called Ius Mentis where he has a wealth of information about law as it relates to technology. Everything is explained in a way that makes it very easy to understand, often including examples you can quickly ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2007/10/14/law-and-technology/ Many more people are waking up every day to the fact that the attacks on September 11 2001 in the USA were an inside job. And that's not surprising at all because when you sit down and look at the available evidence with an open mind, it becomes really difficult ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2007/09/10/wake-up-911-was-an-inside-job/ Alex Jones is about to release his latest movie titled "Endgame." You can watch a trailer of it here. It's said to be his best work yet, even better than "Terror Storm," which if you haven't seen yet, you absolutely should (you can watch it for free on Google Video ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2007/09/08/endgame-and-other-movies-you-should-see-asap/ This morning I almost sprayed coffee all over my computer when I read this story. Looks like the Chinese want to regulate re-incarnation now. Yes, you heard that right. If you were still in doubt that religion is stupidity used to brainwash, enslave and control people, this is such a ... http://www.kareldonk.com/karel/2007/08/29/chinese-regulate-re-incarnation/