otrops: jeff van campen’s personal blog

Those of you who follow my Flickr stream will have noticed that I’ve uploaded a number of older photos in the past day or so. I have a large number of photos that I’ve never uploaded to Flickr for one reason or another. Well, mostly one reason — pure laziness!
I’m going to try [...]

I decided to follow in the footsteps of el mambrino, and purchase glasses online. Unfortunately, Zenni Optical, who came highly recommended by the aforementioned mambrino, don’t seem to deliver to the UK.
Instead, I decided to go with Glasses Direct, mostly because I had seen a pair I liked in a catalogue at [...]

I’m Twittering a lot these days. My blogging, on the other hand, has declined rapidly.

I’ve just noticed that I’ve been keeping this blog for a year now. My first post was on the 22nd of April last year. After my recent posting spree, I’m a grand total of 52 posts, which means I’ve posted an average of one post a week. Though I managed to post [...]

Years ago, friends started asking me if I’d taken up watercolors. I was completely confused at first, but then it was explained to me that if you searched for my name online, most of the top results included websites with paintings seemingly attributed to me. Not surprisingly, these weren’t my work.
They were the [...]