So ... originally I wanted to post this HOURS ago, when it actually was Easter Sunday, but then my database failed and I had to leave to have cake with the family. So now, with some delay, this is what I wanted to say:

Not sure why, but two days ago I suddenly remembered that I used to have quite a lot of caps in a little section of one of my old domains. I searched through my backup disks and found them, or at least most of them. I re-uploaded everything and only the last few scenes of two movies are missing somehow. So feel free to go through miss-newyork.net/caps to see if there's anything useful to you. I tried to update my posts at dj_capslock@livejournal, because I was still getting comments asking for updated links, but I can't find my posts ...

I wanna go through my DVD collection and see what else I should cap. Is there an easy/efficient way to cap DVDs on the Mac? Haven't done it since I switched from Windows to Leopard I searched for an old version of VLC player, because I found a tutorial on how to automatically cap, but I haven't tested it yet. Any recommendations are welcome though.

Maybe I'll post a list of my DVDs and take a few requests if I can find a decent way to cap.

It's been a month since my last post and I wish I could tell you that something interesting has happened since then, but it hasn't. Instead I'll give you some photos I took during the past couple of days around my hometown. It's been snowing like crazy, on & off for the past month, and I just HAD to use the opportunity. I am a vivid postcard sender over at Postcrossing and I am always struggling to find nice postcards of any of the cities in my area, so I decided to make some myself and sent a big order to Moo.com a few minutes ago.

To make it a little bit more fun I used some rather atypical sights - our area is mostly known for its industrial heritage, coal mines, factories and the like, but most people don't know that we have another kind of culture here: castles! We actually have a lot of them, not big, but pretty, and I am basically using Postcrossing to promote our area - Germany's "Ruhr Area" - especially since we're the "Cultural Capital of Europe" this year!

So without any further ado, here are my favourite shots. Most of them have been manipulated using HDRtist, a free Mac software that'll let you create HDR like photos VERY easily. Try it, it's fun

I promised to post the recipe for the Christmas Dinner I made this year - ahem, last year. It's actually several different recipes that I had found in several different places So these were the courses - mind that I'm translating all of this from German, just in case you find anything sounds weird:

• Cappuccino of Shellfish & Scallops au gratin
• Duck Breast with Pesto & Gnocchi with butter of pine nuts
• Raspberry Cheesecakes

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So, updating the blog took a bit longer than I thought - completely my fault, because I managed to screw up all my thumbnails and I had to edit every single uploaded picture to get them back. The good thing: I got to learn a bit about Wordpress 2.9 image editing features all the while watching my Buffy marathon

As you can see I also needed a new layout - I loved the old one, but it was kinda keeping me from posting, especially when I didn't have a picture ready to go with the post. So now you're looking and something completely hand-coded by me - which probably means you might encounter some errors LOL I'll probably tweak the site here and there a little bit over time.

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