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[WvS] [Fra Kapp A Cabo][Bicycling the Pyrenees][on the tracks][a classic modern canoe][GPS moving maps][Garp mapgenerator][NL satellite images][FishEye bitmap viewer][PngSuite test images][PNG Portable Network Graphics]


Domestic affairs

[WvS] me, myself and I
[career] career profile
[GPS moving maps] where are you
Willem van Schaik? Simply one of those millions with their own domain and web site. However, I started this site way back in 1995, the Middle Ages of Internet time.
Originating from Amsterdam and after a couple of years in Singapore, I'm now living in Calgary, close to the Canadian Rockies. Working for Sun Microsystems and spending the weekends exploring the outdoors.
After lots of industrial automation, my current field consists of eCommerce, Identity Management, Portals and other Internet technologies. And in the nightly hours I keep working on computer graphics and GPS.

Sharing it

[FishEye] goggles for your camera
[Download] grab the stuff
To share or not to share ... that's the question. Which isn't a big issue overhere. Most stuff you can download from my site is "take it if you like it". FishEye, however, is shareware. It's a Win32 bitmap viewer optimized for quickly browsing a directory full of images. Could be those you just downloaded from your digital camera. It supports the bmp, gif, jpeg, png and tiff formats. Or click the download button for an overview of all available goodies.

Nightlife

[Garp] the World according to Garp
[PNG] Portable Network Graphics
[PngSuite] the PNG test-suite
[NeXT] black NeXT
[PingPong] PingPong
Some people peak in the morning, but my internal clock dictates that the best results come after 10 pm. What follows here are the results of those night-shifts.
After 10 years of loyalty to the BBC micro, I switched in 1992 to a NeXTstation color, which I intend to use for 10 years as well. Garp, a program originating on the BBC, is an example of how computers do support other hobbies, like in this case cartography.
Last years I worked a lot on PNG, the new graphics format, which is lossless, very compact and supports alpha and gamma. Pnmtopng, written by Alex Lehmann and me, converts png-images to and from the versatile PbmPlus formats. The most popular part of my site is PngSuite, a set of test-images for png developers. Finally, the PingPong you will find here, is not a Chinese virus, but a NeXTstep PNG-viewer.

Just do it

[Fra Kapp A Cabo] Fra Kapp a Cabo
[Fra Kapp A Cabo] biking the Pyrenees
[Rocky Mountains] high in the Rockies
[Camping in June] winter camping in June
In 1998 Fiona and I completed a four month long-distance biking journey from Europe's North Cape all the way down to Gibraltar. In total a distance of 7200 km.
In general, we love the outdoors. And we were able to explore the National Parks in many parts of the world. Travel with us to those spots, ranging from New Zealand or Sumatra to the Negev Desert.
Now that we are living in one of the best parts of the world for trekking and hiking, you can expect here both sunny and snowy pictures of the Canadian West.

Good old friends

[TSVO] met dank aan de BB
Well, you know who you are.

To be continued

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  Willem van Schaik, Calgary, 1995-2008     http://www.schaik.com/wwwillem.html