And now a short break from photography:

ACTA is a controversial international treaty that impacts digital rights and is being negotiated in secret meetings. PublicACTA has been organised by InternetNZ so that the public can critique the known and likely content of ACTA proposals ahead of the next round in Wellington, NZ.

PublicACTA has prepared the “Wellington Declaration“. Its purpose is to preserve the Internet as a place for creativity and innovation, for the sharing of knowledge, citizen engagement and democracy, and as an engine of economic growth and opportunity. The ACTA treaty, as its contents has leaked so far, is a severe danger to all those beneficial aspects of the Internet.

Please consider strongly signing PublicACTA’s petition. It is in your interest, in that of your children and in that of all citizens of our global community.

Please sign and please pass on the word.

More on ACTA at the blogs of Mark Harris, Michael Geist, on Facebook, and for the German speaking readers on netzpolitik.org.

OK, things kinda work on the new site. There are still some images missing, because I had not tagged them properly in my image database, and therefore they were neither converted nor uploaded to the new site. But still, I have switched the DNS entries to point to the new site. More about that (and my first proper post) tomorrow. Thanks for your patience.

If you already saw today’s “947 – Lonesome Road“, and were appalled by the garish colors, rest assured, so was I when I first saw them on a real monitor here in Vienna.

Sometimes this happens when you edit on a laptop with a bad display. Normally I can compensate for the display’s faults by looking at color numbers, that’s especially true for setting white points, but sometimes everything fails and the image falls apart. I have just replaced the Image of the Day with a more moderate version. Thus, please give it one more chance, it’s not as bad as you thought

Good night.

Sorry, I had to replace yesterday’s image with a new, better version. My laptop can’t display deep blacks well enough, and stupid me did not look at the histogram.

I have added one more layer, that makes much of a difference. Please go back to 924 – The Art Of Not Seein’ Red and see for yourself.

I tried to get an image ready, but I don’t want to rush it. Sorry, you’ll have to wait until evening.

Sorry, but Daily sometimes can’t mean daily. Monday I was lazy, and yesterday, when I had my images processed, one for Monday, two for yesterday, my Internet service provider failed. HTTP works, I can read everything, but HTTPS failed upon connecting to any secure server, local as well as abroad. Fishy? Maybe, at least I can’t imagine why of all protocols layered upon TCP/IP exactly HTTPS should fail, and obviously “on the wire”. Call me paranoid, but for me this looks like someone incompetent installing or testing an eavesdropping system. Oh well, we are all terrorists, ain’t we?

Anyway, without HTTPS, I can’t login anywhere, can’t post anything. See you this evening.

Yesterday was shopping day all day. I managed to find five minutes for photography in the morning, no more, but I have one or two images, one is in work now. I am not yet sure what to make of it and it won’t be done before late in the evening. During the day I’ll be working in Villach. Please bear with me

I have all my data (with the exception of the files of last Monday) back and installed here in Vienna, I have Photoshop up and patched, have my image database Imatch, I even have some images for yesterday, but it’s too late now to post them. After work, promised.