Author Archives: ericvdlinden

I just read a few lines from Canetti‘s autobiography that did catch my attention because they have somehow to do with blogging as a way to share knowledge: … zum Wissen gehört, dass es sich zeigen will und sich mit … Continue reading →

Because I recently bought some CDs with music of Ástor Piazzolla and John Tavener, I tried to find some background information. The very first biography of Piazzolla (1921-1992) has been published by Oxford University Press in 2000. (update March 2011: … Continue reading →

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I find interesting in that he combines two of my main interests: aircraft and literature. I came across some photographs taken a few days before he died, by John Phillips. Google gives these links. One of them … Continue reading →

I just found out about this link (in Dutch) on inventio.nl with info on RealPlayer recording and conversions. I’m just curious how to save streaming media into a common file. Maye useful when I need it.

A long time fan of conductor John Eliot Gardiner, I wondered if there is some actual news on projects he is working on. A Google result leads, via via, to an interesting New York Times article from August 2000 with … Continue reading →

This first entry via Blogger should be a ‘hello’ to readers. It follows a year long struggle with a half baked version done by myself. Biggest problem in this was adding actual content in a fast way. How it looked … Continue reading →

Two months since last posting. Reason, in the mean time I have experimented a lot with my newly acquired film scanner. I’m not yet able to produce the ‘perfect’ image. Some tries are included in last added (historical) air logs. … Continue reading →

Most interesting news to me was the existance of research on papyri from Herculaneum (Pompeii) by Richard Janko of the University College London. It appears that thanks to new digital scanning technics (archeological MSI) it is possible to read texts … Continue reading →

Again several reports have been added to the Airblog. Since last posting I ‘ve been busy with the dia/negative scanner I ‘ve bought, PrimeFilm 1800 . It takes up a lot of time to get it to know. I will use … Continue reading →