2015-02-08

White New Year's Eve Diving

Ending 2014 with a quiet dive is a pleasant thing to do: the world above the waterline was covered with some snow resulting in nice scenery. Doning the full face mask...



...and then submerging into the cold waters, experiencing again the silent world below the surface was really relaxing. It's such a pleasure to know that there's only 4°C outside the mask, as opposed to feeling these 4°C.



In case you wonder ... always take that backup set of fins with you, just in case. Safe diving also in 2015!

Display Beaming Woes in the 21st Century

Beaming display content over standard WiFi LANs has been with us for some time now. Unfortunately, there are still several slightly incompatible standards for wireless display functionality. While on Android things at least work to some extent, Windows support is rather new and Microsoft obviously has some homework to do, especially when there is VirtualBox involved...