Since the Olympic Games are finally over, it is time to see the results. Here are the 15 first countries of the Athens games. For fun, I calculated the actual number of medals/millions inhabitants ratio for the last 3 summer olympic games. The countries with the highest population (China, USA) don't look as good as with the raw medal count. European countries seems to establish themselves between 0.5 and 0.6 medals per milllion people. Australia and Cuba win the games easily, weird.

		Medals	Medals/millions inhab.
Country		Athens	Athens	Sydney	Atlanta
	USA	103	0.35	0.34	0.38
	Russia	92	0.64	0.60	0.43
	China	63	0.049	0.047	0.041
	Australia	49	2.46	3.03	2.29
	Germany	48	0.58	0.68	0.78
	Japan	37	0.29	0.14	0.11
	France	33	0.55	0.64	0.63
	Italy	32	0.55	0.59	0.61
	South Korea	30	0.62	0.59	0.60
	UK	30	0.50	0.48	0.26
	Cuba	27	2.39	2.60	2.25
	Ukraine	23	0.48	0.47	0.45
	Netherlands	22	1.35	1.57	1.23
	Romania	19	0.85	1.11	0.89
	Spain	19	0.47	0.28	0.43

Picture of the Chattahoochee river which can become a little smoky in the evening for more or less mysterious reasons. Probably the same reason you have morning fog, water becomes warmer than the air which is saturated with mosture at the same time?
Anyways it is even more smoky after a storm, like here, after it poured down for 15-20 minutes saturday afternoon:

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What is exactly the effect of latitude on the length of the day? The answer below. I remember whem I was living in France sunset happened after 10pm in the end of June. Here in Atlanta, it hardly reaches 8h30pm, but winter is much better that's for sure...

Durée de la journée:

Second paintball afternoon. This time I played to the CNN reporter making pictures of war rather than doing it, except for 3 games... The place we are playing to is pretty remote and offers a pretty good variety of "battle fields".
From a forest type Balkan war:

to a more urban warfare terrain like Beyrout:

and many more. Well there is a big difference compared to real combat, here, when you run out of amo, you raise your gun in the air, cry not to be shouted at and leave the battle field safely! ;-)

This time I got shouted at 3 times: left leg, right shoulder and left hear! It hurts!

Transition of the photo album to gallery (gallery.menalto.com), a much more powerfull software to handle online photos.
The templates need a little more of twicking, comments are not completly moved but hey, at least the front page looks much better: www.windal.net/gallery.

One tripod, one camera, one small water fall, two settings, two pictures...

F/2.8 - 1/27 sec. - 200 ISO	F/11.3 - 1 sec. - 160 ISO

Pictures taken at the bottom of "Cochran Falls".

Somewhere in North Georgia, maybe around 50-60 miles north of Atlanta, an ivy ocean slowly eating trees.

Click on the picture, IT IS AN ORDER!

Thank you. Pretty spectacluar isn't it. This kind of stuff lets me voiceless. Closeup:

I wonder btw if a tree can survive when it is covered like that...
All the pictures are visible at this link.

Almost...
It is in the suburbs, in the "perimeter center". In Atlanta the beltway is called "perimeter". The high-tech area of Atlanta spreads around the GA400 freeway from the perimeter to the North including Roswell where I live.
This part of the suburb is probably the most crowded you can get in Atlanta and still, if you look at it, what you see in a (urban) forest with a few buildings that managed to grow taller than trees... Click on the picture for higher resolution.
Another one here.