Month: October 2008

  • Xanten

    Today I was in the Roman city Xanten, of which I had only seen the archeological park so far. Now it was about time to have a look at the rest of the city. It’s not too big, but every two meters there’s something to discover. Of course the Xanten Cathedral St. Victor is especially…

  • History on the doorstep – part II

    Today I was again at the old dam I commented on in August. Meanwhile, the demolition has started, as shown on the pictures. As you can see, the barrage has been dug up in the middle, so the Eifgen creek can pass more or less unchecked again. A part of the accrued debris has been…

  • Resizing images in Flash

    Lately, I was working on a website which should have a neat Flash menu with funny jumping graphics. Now, they should be real bitmaps, not vectors. So when I wanted to let my images jump, whereby they should also change in size a little, I encountered a problem: The images only looked well at a…