Niklas Saers
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$362 and nothing to show for it: inside the SeeAir Kickstarter scam

In March 2023, I backed the SeeAir Tankless Dive System on Kickstarter. Compact, battery-powered underwater breathing gadget. Polished renders, a slick video, spec sheets that looked legit. $362 for the dive unit and a couple accessories. Seemed fair.

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October 17, 2004 • General

Worlds ugliest fish

October 14, 2004 • Blogs

Debate plugin notes

Blogs can be used to promote democracy. A topic can be discussed and people can leave their comments. But a plugin can be made to allow WordPress to be used for debates. This is where two or more parties discuss an issue. People should be able to leave their comments that then are a pool of "questions from the audience" that the participants are requested to answer. I think this is one of the really intersting public discussion tools that for now only are in the mainstream media and not in blogs (yet).

October 14, 2004 • Technology

Delicious Library

Delicious Library looks GOOD. I have no idea of just what it does beyond building up your own library of stuff, but when it's available I'll go have a look

October 13, 2004 • Food

Apple cake

Today's cake: apple cake without cake:

October 13, 2004 • General

Concepts that do not exist in the English language

Metafilter has a post on concepts that do not exist in English

October 13, 2004 • Photography

Photoblog

My first attempt isn't really a photo blog as much as it is Gallery with its own category. See it here and subscribe to the RSS if you like. Today's entry:

October 13, 2004 • Blogs

WP Plugin Database

A WordPress Plugin Database is up. Would be nice if it could be tied in with a plugin manager in WP13. Looks nice, and I'm happy the compability field is used.

October 11, 2004 • Photography

20D

I'm not the only one to receive my Canon 20D, Michael Reichmann has an excelent followup on his last review. I agree with his comment on the shutter sound, my first reaction was Argh!. This will be bad in so many situations. But, the camera is so seriously great that I'll happily live with that. Only question is: Michael, what happened when you got busted by the two? ;-)

October 11, 2004 • Photography

Crop

I've become facinated by the 1:1.5 crop, I think I'll use that for most of my photoblog, at least to start with.

October 11, 2004 • Photography

Gigapixel Images

This guy stitched a picture scaling 40784x26800, and it looks good!