A Most brilliant invention
Posted in Technology on Feb 14th, 2008 No Comments »
This is completely simple and yet mind bogglingly cool.
Archive for February, 2008
Looking for Flickr Alternatives?
Posted in photography on Feb 13th, 2008 No Comments »
With the possible acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft increasingly likely as the institutional investors presses on. I am looking to move my photos elsewhere. There are a few requirements: good community features, support for full res photos, easy uploading, no network blocking (flickr is blocked by china and some other countries), reasonably priced storage cost. [...]
Google Talk adds translation bots
Posted in Technology on Feb 10th, 2008 No Comments »
This is a nifty tool where you can have a group conversation with your friend(s), invite the translation bot of your choice and chat in the language of your choice. The bot will give you a line by line translation. http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2007/12/merry-christmas-god-jul-and.html International commerce anyone?
Canon SD870 IS vs. Fuji F50
Posted in photography on Feb 7th, 2008 No Comments »
I currently own the Canon SD870 IS, my previous P&S was a Fuji F30 and I have had extensive play time with the F50. The following is a summery of my own evaluation results before purchasing the Canon SD870. Noise performance per ISO: Fuji F50 wins. The F50 seem to have about a 1 f-stop [...]
Super Tuesday and those who don’t have the time to keep up
Posted in politics n law on Feb 5th, 2008 No Comments »
This piece is as good as it gets as a lazy man’s guide to Super Tuesday, no matter if you are an independent, a democrat or a republican. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Weblogs/CampaignStandard/default.asp#4408