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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July 6, 2005 • Photoblog

Flying bees

Which of the two flying bees do you prefer? The first one is over-exposed but gives you the hairy flowers and the bee slightly unfocussed with the wings being mere shadows. The second is clearly out of focus, but is more traditional "little bee going for big flower"

July 5, 2005 • Photoblog

Bee portrait

How do you like your bee? Today I've got two versions that differ a bit in colour and focus. Which one do you prefer?

July 4, 2005 • Photoblog

Mating

Mating

July 4, 2005 • Technology

Punycode Squirrelmail Plugin

I've extended Javier Wilson's punycode SquirrelMail plugin to allow logins with non-US letters. I.e, test@bÃ¥t.no will be translated to [email protected] and use that for login. If it is of use to you, you can download version 0.2.2N.

July 3, 2005 • Photoblog

With love from me to you

Today I'm starting a little series of 18 pictures called "Flowers & Bees". First one out I sent to my girlfriend, called With love from me to you. All the pictures are taken either in my mums garden or the playingfield next to it. This particular one is from the field, and as you can see me and my lens were quite bombarded with pollen by the time this picture was taken. It would have been nice if the picture was more focussed, at 1/100 second it was still to shaky for my 100mm macro and a 2x converter.

June 29, 2005 • Photography

New lenses coming

I'm looking forward to trying out the Sigma 30mm f/1.4 lens I ordered today. I finally found a review of it, and it sounds good. :-) After reading a bunch of reviews of the Tamron 28-75, I've decided that it'll replace my trusty Canon 28-80mm f/3.5-4.5.

June 21, 2005 • Photoblog

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May 19, 2005 • Photoblog

Harpsichord

Harpsichord

May 16, 2005 • Photoblog

Dirty Coffee Pot

Dirty Coffee Pot