Several sites are using the Tilepic image format to show sections of a larger image. The Tilepic file format contains the image data for a limited number of resolutions (levels) and all image parts (tiles) have the same dimensions. The first level contains the full image scaled to a single tile. The second level could [...]

On April 21st 2006 I wrote: “Kids nagging for a pet animal are told they have to take care of the little critter themselves and that usually works for the first few weeks. At the same time, a lot of cat owners apparently already lost interest after reading the what-food-to-buy section in their operations manual. [...]

“This is a first shot: the start of hitting targets, which have not become fully clear yet. Trying to get used to the trigger threshold, the first shot is usually a miss. However, so is not taking the first shot at all. Slowly building up the pressure … waiting for the blind shot. Next, the [...]