Google has satellite images from all over the world, and their Google Earth program makes it very easy to find places. One day I sat down and looked for all the places I’ve lived in during my life. This is the result:

This is where we live now, in Shanghai. Click on the image to check out many previous places I’ve lived in, and make sure to read my descriptions. Unfortunately not all places are available on Google, most notably the following are missing:

- My family’s current home in Cernusco, Milano.
- Taiwan, where my mom lives.

If you want to have fun in looking at your past, download Google Earth.

One Logan is hard to take care of. But 5 of them!! Help us!!

Click on image for a larger version

This one was created in a slightly different way. I cut out each Logan, and then merged all the shapes with the background. Thanks to Tommy for the link to the tutorial.

You can see the blur around the cut out shapes this time. I am still trying it out, so I haven’t refined the edges yet. I need time to work on this. Time that I don’t have. For the moment this will do.

Oh, and I also added captions, just for fun. I used a website called Captioner. It is a very simple captioner tool, you can add up to 5 captions (just right for this photo), all the same type. However it does not allow for the captioned image to be saved, so I had to do a screen capture. If you know of a better site let me know.

I am having waaay too much fun!

This is my first attempt at cloning:

This was just a test to try it for the first time. I did not put any thought on the composition, I just took two shots last night and hoped to be able to create a clone.

For the record, I used the open source image editor Gimp. It took me a while to get it, but now that I’ve found the way, it’s actually very easy to do.

I was inspired by Stephanie’s photos, in particular this one. Study this photo for a while, and be blown away. Hint: there is no mirror.

I really like this kind of photo. I plan to get a tripod and start making these. Expect many of them in the future.

Here is a screenshot of my PC desktop:

No, it’s not a Mac, this is Windows XP made look like it is OS X. And it was damn easy. Just go here, download the package and install it. Reboot and voila’.

The look is almost perfect, the sounds are mimicked as well, there is even an Expose’ for Windows, but obviously it’s not as fast and smooth as the Mac version. For the moment I will use this, unless it crashes my system. Right now I love it!!

I haven’t posted in the last few days for a very specific reason: my monthly bandwidth was almost exceeded. For those who don’t know, bandwidth is basically the amount of traffic on a website. Bandwidth costs money, so each site has a limited amount of traffic allowed each month.

This month I almost went over that limit, which means that I received more visits than ever. Let’s talk some numbers.

My monthly limit is 2GB. Here is the history of my monthly bandwidth:

Jul 2006 thetais.net 1.72 Gig (so far)
Jun 2006 thetais.net 1.37 Gig
May 2006 thetais.net 1.35 Gig
Apr 2006 thetais.net 709.07 Meg
Mar 2006 thetais.net 468.47 Meg
Feb 2006 thetais.net 295.44 Meg
Jan 2006 thetais.net 114.05 Meg
Dec 2005 thetais.net 128.85 Meg
Nov 2005 thetais.net 120.76 Meg
Oct 2005 thetais.net 132.08 Meg
Sep 2005 thetais.net 222.91 Meg
Aug 2005 thetais.net 79.48 Meg
Jul 2005 thetais.net 15.82 Meg
Jun 2005 thetais.net 1.64 Meg

As you can see, it has been increasing steadily since March, when I started blogging regularly, and almost doubled in May, which is when Logan was born. And even though I haven’t blogged as much in June and July, those had the highest numbers, which is obviously due to Logan’s photos.

So that’s why I haven’t blogged since Friday. I didn’t want to go over my limit, or I would have to pay for it, at least not now that we are at the end of the month. On the 1st the limit will be reset, so I will have more air to breath. Of course if the bandwidth keeps increasing I will gladly pay. Success is not free…

I want to thank everyone for visiting this site and making it more popular. And please keep coming. I’ll always have new content (did you check the new photos in July Mix?).