I’ve got me a new camera (don’t worry, I didn’t buy more junk - I’m just borrowing this one). It’s a small canon IXUS-70. It’s nice to have a small camera (my Panasonic is a bit larger, and my smaller Canon died in Switzerland).
Check out the photos we took at the beach
So, 2007 is finally behind us. Some people use calendars to know that, some people get it from the TV, and some wait for my yearly photo collection. So here it is. It’s really short - we haven’t done much traveling - guess we’re getting old!
It was a day filled with events. First of all, things in TripTouch looks good - hopefully I’ll have updates soon, but I can’t say more now.
Then my own server (which runs all my personal domains - RonMertens.com, Metalgrass.com, oled-info, mram-info, StartupIsrael, mertero.com, and more. It’s also running the CafeTouch website) was blocked for about 7 hours (I’m not sure why, actually) and it took me quite some time to get it back up.
On the plus side again, I crossed the 100-readers marks on one of my RSS feeds - the oled-info one (big surprise). It now has 104 readers according to FeedBurner.
Other cool news is tha I uploaded the nice cloud-over-mountain photos (from grindelwald) to Shutterstock, and they sold 2 copies daily for the previous 3 days, which is cool 
Michal and I also spent some time choosing things for our new bath in the new apartment - tiles, bathroom faucets and intert-putzes (or whatever it’s called). It’s so hard, but at the end we’ll have a good looking place I hope!
Anyway it’s time to go packing, we’re going to have a nice weekend up-north (in Amirim) to relax a bit and celebrate 5 years together (yeah, we’re hanging in there!)
Well, we’re back. We had a wonderful time! We stayed in Grindelwald almost the entire trip (12 days in all) and hiked up and down the mountains. That place is so beautiful. Here’s a few photos, but don’t worry - I’ll write a travelogue soon…
Oh… and a happy new year to all 
We just came back from a great weekend - the Jacob’s ladder festival. It’s an anglo-saxon folk festival - which means the music is mostly irish/english/country, and most of the crowd is from those countries - which means that you almost only hear english around you. Feels like a real vacation. The music was great, too. I really liked the country bits, and there was also a beautiful performance by ‘La Vashe Kiri’ - an israeli band playing east-european music (romanian, armanian, kleizmer, that sort of thing) - that was the highlight for me, anyway.
I even got Michal to do some square-dancing with me, and it was cool (for the short while it lasted).
It’s the annual “oh-no-Ron-has-made-another-travelogue-we-better-run-for-cover” event. The good news is that it’s rather short this time. This year was quite un-eventful photo wise (well, except our wedding, really, but those were not mine, and Michal won’t allow me to upload the photos).
http://www.RonMertens.com/2006/photoCollection/
Ron
Check this out -
http://www.istockphoto.com/design_spotlight_details.php?ID=7757
My photo (From costa rica) was used in a design spotlight at iStockPhoto. It was actually used in a postcard to promote a Yoga retreat in Costa Rica.
Cool.
Heya.
My friend Nir has a new travelogue site. He is a gifted photographer, although I personally think the travelogue is a bit messy. But the pictures are great.
I finished writing and uploading the Santorini honeymoon photos… Enjoy!
http://www.RonMertens.com/2006/santorini
I joined yet another micro photo-selling site, called Shutterstock. It’s pretty similiar to iStockPhoto: You upload your photographs, and if they are good enough, you can start selling them on the site. You get 0.25$ per photo. It’s small money, but people really buy pictures that way (because it’s so cheap to buy, too).
I seem to be able to sell a few photos each month, it’s pretty neat when someone buys your photo, really.
Wanna try too? Hop over to Shutterstock.com (And make sure you use that link, so I can get referral bonus).