detlevcm.eu

A little bit of a roadmap:

I have not been updating my site recently - also because I do not think there are any pressing updates.
Along the way I am planning a migration to Druapl 8 - although I will possibly need to wait until all my required plug ins are available. The main content has however been ported over so that it is "ready to go" with some more tweaks once Drupal 8 is finally released.

Other than that... - the new theme is "Responsive Bartik" which means my website is finally (!!) properly accessible on mobile phones!

It is nearly one year ago that I bought the Beyerdynamic T50p for use at university - primarily to block out surrounding noise, but also to enjoy my music.

Have they accomplished that? Most definitely and I am a happy customer.

I am a fan of the BlackBerry, primarily because no other company offers a similarly secure product but also because their phones (and the tablet) are robust and reliable. The keyboard on the Pearl 8120 (my first BlackBerry) was a huge improvement over a "regular mobile phone" (despite the small buttons, it was very easy to use) while the Bold 9900 (my second BlackBerry) offered the full QWERTY experience on which I happily typed multipage documents (including draft sections of my photography guide and transfer report for the PhD).

After a fair bit of time, my Chemical Kinetics Solver has been updated.

The changes are primarily "under the hood", but some changes in input handling are also included with the update. In addition, work on a more detailed documentation has begun, however it is quite empty as of now.

The project can be found at https://sourceforge.net/projects/chekinsol/

Sadly there is not a lot of new content to publish, however I have spent some time improving the layout and structure of the website.

The number of menu entries in the main menu has been reduced and the navigation menu has become more important. While this may mean more clicks, it has made the website structure a bit more consistent and logical.

Dependent on time and mood I will potentially roll out further updates to my website - which should include content as well besides further restructuring.

As usual, feedback is always welcome.

So it has finally happened, I have started to sit down for a massive updating spree.

My gallery is now being expanded with an extensive selection of photographs from my early days as well as some new images. As a preparatory step, first all existing images were downsized on the webserver, this should improve loading speed for uncached images and allows me to present a significantly larger amount of images.

So, my server is working again - to some extent. The main OS drive was swapped, the server recovered, a drive added via USB... the database is being duplicated and the neyxt step is to remove the offending drive and think about the next step...

I guess I will need to buy another 2TB drive as I really don't want to go through the hassle of getting WHS v1 (based on Server 2003) to work with larger drives...

So, I took a little holiday with hopes that I would update and restructure my website - well, it turned out this didn't happen... not in a significant way by any means. I modified some of my pages, changed the academia section... and then stopped halfway through trying to figure out how best to display mathematics (the image version one sometimes sees is ugly... but relying on a third party service to display LaTeX doesn't sound like a good plan either...)

Well... things to do...

At some point I will need to make changes to my gallery, expanding the amount of images but also switching from full sized images to lower resolution files to reduce the associated server load. I do not yet know when I get the time to update my gallery, but as a first step, fotomoto has been removed.

Any requests for image prints will need to go through Artflakes or 500px. Having said that, the nature of the zenphoto setup was also not in favour of using fotomoto. As filenames are obscured direct links aren't created which makes it, to put it mildly, rather messy.