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Losing sleep over kids, work, travel & photography |
For many, many years, I’ve been trying all sorts of recipes for chocolate cake. I’ve tried magazine recipes. I’ve scoured the internet. But I keep coming back to this recipe mainly because it doesn’t require any extraordinary ingredients (just the stuff I normally keep in my pantry) and the method is quite simple.This is also the recipe that I used for making the twins’ Beach Cake.
What does happiness mean to you? My good friend, Odette, wants to know. A free hotel stay, a trip to the beach, and a long weekend are all lovely, but she wants your answers to specifically involve the use of your five senses only. List them down and you just might get some presents from her if you do! Hurry over to her blog now. Her birthday giveaway ends 28th February.
Most hotels in Amsterdam require you to check out by noon. Hence, if you have a considerable amount of luggage with you, this situation might pose a challenge to you if your outbound flight is in the evening and you intend to do some last-minute shopping or sightseeing in the afternoon.
One way of dealing with the situation is to leave your luggage with the hotel. But this may not be feasible if the hotel is not exactly reputable and/or if it’s located in an area that is not so accessible.
The luggage locker at Amsterdam Central Station just might provide the solution to your quandary. After all, all buses, trams and trains converge there. From Central Station, you can also easily take a train to Schiphol Airport.
At Central Station, just follow the signs to the lockers (or ask one of the policemen loitering around).
Digital cameras are getting more sophisticated yet cheaper by the day. They’re now in the range of 10 megapixels and, as a consequence, resulting photographs are now getting bigger in file size, as well.
This poses problems in terms of emailing photos to family and friends, as a huge file would slow down the sending/receiving process. The same principle holds true for web pages, blogs or social networking sites (e.g. FaceBook). Out of consideration and courtesy for other people, it is common netiquette practice to resize photos prior to emailing or posting them on the net.
A quick, easy and free way of doing this is by using IrfanView.
IrfanView is a compact, easy-to-use image viewer that you can download for free (I can’t seem to stress that often enough!) from IrfanView.Net. IrfanView is actually a lot more than just an image viewer — you can also use it to do minor adjustments in colour, contrast, saturation — but for the purposes of this post, I’ll limit the discussion to the topic of resizing the photographs only.
Selamat datang (welcome)!
I am Mimi -- mother, careerwoman, incidental world traveler, photography enthusiast, self-confessed gadget geek, and aspiring linguist (7 languages to date).
I'm a Filipina married to a Malaysian. Kuala Lumpur has been my home since 1993.
You may reach me at mimi[at]sleeplessinkl.com.
