The Sony α9: Canon, patience is running out

Published on April 27th, 2017 in Hardware, Personal, Photography • No Comments, leave one »
The first camera I ever bought was the Sony Cybershot DSC-F717. That’s when I first had enough money to be able to afford my very own digital camera and really take up photography as a hobby. Read more »

Messages from the Universe – Part 3

Published on April 1st, 2017 in General, Personal, Religion, Takes on Life • Tags: , • 2 Comments »
Continuing where I left off in the previous post in this series, in the months following that post, I experienced what I can only describe as an onslaught of the numbers 3, 6 and 9 in various combinations of 3 digits. Read more »

About the voice-over for my website intro

Published on March 1st, 2017 in Design, Personal, Programming, Takes on Life • Tags: , • No Comments, leave one »
When I started working on the intro for my new website in late 2015 I knew I would eventually want some voice-over to go along with the titles appearing on screen. Read more »

An explanation for my website intro

Published on February 24th, 2017 in Art, Design, Information Technology, Personal, Programming, Religion, Science, Takes on Life • Tags: , , , , • No Comments, leave one »
There’s a lot of thinking that went into the creation of the intro sequence that I have on the homepage of my new website. Read more »

My new website went live

Published on February 19th, 2017 in Art, Design, Information Technology, Personal, Photography, Programming, Software • No Comments, leave one »
Yesterday I launched a brand new design for my main website at kareldonk.com. It was long overdue considering that the previous design was launched all the way back in May of 2011. Read more »

Economics is Pseudoscience; Economists are Stupid People

Published on November 20th, 2016 in Books, Personal, Politics, Science, Takes on Life • No Comments, leave one »
I’ve always hated economics and related subjects in school. I couldn’t explain exactly why back then, but it all seemed like worthless crap to me. Read more »

Delivering Photos to Clients on Custom USB Flash Drives

Published on November 15th, 2016 in Business, Hardware, Personal, Photography • Tags: • No Comments, leave one »
Earlier this year I started to think about alternative options for delivering photos to my clients. Read more »

On the Facebook 30-Day Ban and Censorship

Published on October 19th, 2016 in Information Technology, Personal, Politics, Software • Tags: , , , , , • 3 Comments »
This week I got temporarily banned, again, for 30 days on Facebook after someone apparently reported a comment I had published below a friend’s post. Read more »

Messages from the Universe – Part 2

Published on October 9th, 2016 in General, Personal, Religion, Takes on Life • Tags: , • 2 Comments »
Not long ago I had published a post here on my blog where I discussed some examples of “coincidences” happening in my life. In this post I want to share another very interesting case concerning the above picture. Read more »

Convincing C programmers to switch to C++; A look at human thinking behavior

Published on October 2nd, 2016 in General, Information Technology, Personal, Programming, Science, Takes on Life • Tags: • 9 Comments »
A few days ago I watched a CppCon 2016 presentation by Dan Saks titled “extern c: Talking to C Programmers about C++” and was pleasantly surprised by the information and insights he shared. Read more »
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