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Alpine Panorama
Having moved into a Munich 4th story penthouse with a view to the Alps, I tried for months to get a proper pictures of them. On a somewhat cloudy day my compact Sony DSC-HX90 ultrazoom was hopeless,...
View ArticleNorthman of the Plot Holes
First off, The Northman – to my limited knowledge of Vikings and ancient Germans in general – is a splendid pseudo-documentary of the physical lives and mystical experiences of the Vikings, with a...
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Tristate Checkbox for Swing
One modern GUI feature notably absent from Java Swing is the tristate checkbox, i.e. a checkbox that has a third or “null” state in addition to the checked and unchecked states. This is typically...
View ArticleDurocher’s Ancient Ethnostate
The Ancient Ethnostate: Biopolitical Thought in Classical Greece by Guillaume Durocher (Kindle Direct Publishing Edition 2021, currently only available as paperback via Amazon) examines ancient Greek...
View ArticleLuttwak’s Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace
Some years ago I reviewed Edward N. Luttwak’s The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire and its Byzantine Empire sequel. In-between these two books, Luttwak published a theoretical rather than purely...
View ArticleBiagioli’s Galileo, Courtier
Mario Biagioli’s Galileo, Courtier (University of Chicago Press 1993, paperback 1994, ISBN 0–226–04560–9) examines the major stations of Galileo Galilei’s career in the context of the contemporary...
View ArticleTektosyne 6.3.2 Released
Tektosyne 6.3.2 is now available for download. This release fixes another bug in the MultiLineIntersection class, this time a rare search state corruption in the sweep line algorithm. Thanks again to...
View ArticleTektosyne 6.3.1 Released
Tektosyne 6.3.1 is now available for download. This minor update addresses one small bug discovered by an observant user: an assertion in method MultiLineIntersection.split was triggered when a...
View ArticleMIME Browser 2.1 Released
Version 2.1 of MIME Browser, my free EML message viewer, is now available for download. This is a bugfix release prompted by a user report that double-clicking on a folder entry could select an...
View ArticleMyriarch 2.1 for Swing Released
Version 2.1.0 of Myriarch, a simple real-time simulator for pre-gunpowder tactical combat, is now available for download. As with previous project updates, the Myriarch GUI is now based on Swing due to...
View ArticleJava Swing JComboBox Tips
This post is a sequel to Java Swing Tips which formerly contained a shorter version of these tips concerning JComboBox. I decided to extract them into their own post as they got rather long, and the...
View ArticleJava Swing Tips
This post collects some tips for Java AWT/Swing features that I found less than obvious in my recent programming. I’m using Oracle OpenJDK 10 on Windows 10, but all Oracle Java Documentation links...
View ArticleTranslation: Repressiver Liberalismus
Last year I had translated two works by an anonymous Austrian author, Volle Fahrt ins Nichts (translation: Full Speed Into the Void) concerning right-wing populist parties, and Die große Müdigkeit...
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Alpine Panorama
Having moved into a Munich 4th story penthouse with a view to the Alps, I tried for months to get a proper pictures of them. On a somewhat cloudy day my compact Sony DSC-HX90 ultrazoom was hopeless,...
View ArticleMartin Luther’s Bible Translation
In my last post on Really Old German from the book Sternstunden I remarked in closing that the chapter on Martin Luther shouldn’t bring any big surprises. Turns out I was wrong. I expected some...
View ArticleReally Old German
If you’re interested highlights of historical German literature there is one very excellent book,“Sternstunden: Große Texte deutscher Sprache,” by Josef Kraus and Walter Krämer, IFB Verlag Deutsche...
View ArticleStar Chess 2.1 for Swing Released
Version 2.1.0 of Star Chess, my free mini space conquest game built to demonstrate a multiplayer turn prediction algorithm, is now available for download. As with previous updates to MIME Browser and...
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Botanic Garden Butterflies
Munich’s botanic garden at Nymphenburg palace is currently showing off live tropical butterflies in one of its rooms. So naturally I got my macro lens and see what I could shoot, also adding some...
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Moon Shot Shootout
Ever since I got my Sony DSC-HX90 with its 720 mm optical zoom range (albeit restricted to an equivalent f/37.4 at the high end due to the small sensor) I wondered if heavy expensive long lenses on my...
View ArticleGreatest Hits in 2019
Total Kynosarges page views as determined by Google Analytics shrank rapidly year-over-year on both weblog and website, and would be worse if not for two surprisingly popular posts that have nothing to...
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