After thinking over the material I want to put in the photography blog, I thought it is better to start a new blog than to revamp this one. The new one is here. http://drfotoz.wordpress.com/ I am trying out wordpress for this one.
That blog will be focused on photography related matter.
Atom feed for the new blog is : http://drfotoz.wordpress.com/feed/
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Blog makeover
I haven't posted anything to my blog for slightly over two years. Planning to revive it and make it a photography oriented blog. Hopefully, I will be able to keep it alive.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Cameras and market segments they are aimed at
I was looking at buying an SLR (bought Canon EOS 400D) and going through reviews and guides at different sites. Found an interesting comment at
http://photonotes.org/articles/beginner-faq/cameras.html#marketbracket
How can I tell what market segment a camera is aimed at?
Look at the advertising. If the camera brochure features lots of snapshot photos of happy families on holiday, it’s a low-end or consumer camera. If the brochure features lots of photos of attractive young women smiling coyly at the camera, it’s a midrange camera. And if the brochure features more glossy fashion photos, landscapes, etc, then it’s a professional camera.
Monday, October 01, 2007
The human network - II
I posted a little time ago (actually, one year ago) about different social networking. Now, I want to add two new ones to the list.
Shelfari - A new social network which is still in beta is a place where you track the books you read and see what your friends are reading. I joined couple of weeks back and found it useful. Antoher network based on your reading interests is http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/. This one does track your friends, but suggests the next book you should read. Shelfari should add that feature too. :-)
Last.fm - This is a hugely popular social network based on people's music interests. People with similar listening habits become neighbours. The very good thing about Last.fm is that you don't need to enter the songs you listened to the site. They have plugins to allmost all media players - windows media player, winamp, itunes - which will automatically upload the data for you. The site currently boasts "over 20 million users," which currently makes for an approximate average of 10,000 fans for each band or label.
They have a radio software (both browser based and stand-alone) which will help to find lot of free music depending on genre or artists. The collection they have is awesome.
I found a mashup between Last.fm and Youtube which will pull out a person's favourite tracks from the former site, finds the music videos of those tracks from Youtube and plays for you. The mashup is http://lasttv.net/. Pretty neat idea. The latest news is that last.fm itself is starting a music video service. The widget on the right side of my blog is from last.fm showing my weekly charts.
Shelfari - A new social network which is still in beta is a place where you track the books you read and see what your friends are reading. I joined couple of weeks back and found it useful. Antoher network based on your reading interests is http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/. This one does track your friends, but suggests the next book you should read. Shelfari should add that feature too. :-)
Last.fm - This is a hugely popular social network based on people's music interests. People with similar listening habits become neighbours. The very good thing about Last.fm is that you don't need to enter the songs you listened to the site. They have plugins to allmost all media players - windows media player, winamp, itunes - which will automatically upload the data for you. The site currently boasts "over 20 million users," which currently makes for an approximate average of 10,000 fans for each band or label.
They have a radio software (both browser based and stand-alone) which will help to find lot of free music depending on genre or artists. The collection they have is awesome.
I found a mashup between Last.fm and Youtube which will pull out a person's favourite tracks from the former site, finds the music videos of those tracks from Youtube and plays for you. The mashup is http://lasttv.net/. Pretty neat idea. The latest news is that last.fm itself is starting a music video service. The widget on the right side of my blog is from last.fm showing my weekly charts.
Interesting quote
Life can only be understood backwards - but it must be lived forward - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish Philospher.
Came across this on "Intelligent Investor" , a book on investing in stock markets. This quote is very true in share markets.
Came across this on "Intelligent Investor" , a book on investing in stock markets. This quote is very true in share markets.
Friday, May 04, 2007
My New Car
Finally, I got a new car. Had been planning to buy a new car for almost eternity (read 4 years.). After I came back to Bangalore in March, I decided it is the time. Had to wait for a month or so due to some red tape in Ford and my company.
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| From My New Car |
Thursday, April 05, 2007
My alter ego in cyberspace
Found this site today. http://mycybertwin.com. This site a bot which resembles the user's personality. To adapt to the users personality, it asks 79 questions. I am not sure how much my cybertwin resembles me. Try him out below.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Around the world in eighty ...er sixty days
Yep.. Completed a full circle around the globe last Friday when I landed on Raleigh Durham Airport. Last November, I returned from Raleigh via San Francisco and Singapore to Bangalore. This time my trip from Bangalore was via Germany. So that makes it a complete circle.
Visited a lot of airports on my way. Waiting on some airports was a pleasant experience, especially in Singapore. On some others, it was quite painful.
One of the places, I liked was the Lick Observatory, Hamilton Hills near San Jose. It was only an hour's drive away from San Jose. The place was pretty fogged up when we went there. The visibility was only 10 feet. Ramji did very good job of keeping his Kia Amanti on road and not going into one of those chasms on the sides of the road. The below photo shows our pic on top of
Hamilton Hills.
The city that impressed me most is Chicago which has lot of big and old building and and the beach. Sabarish and Meena were my hosts in Chicago. The best view of the city was from top of either John Hancock or Sears towers. It seems you can see the neighboring states from those towers. Could not go on top of Sears as we got a little late. Below picture is from John Hancock.
Another nice view is from the Navy Pier in the night. All the building were lit up brightly and they were getting reflected on Lake Michigan.
It was very chilly in the windy city. I struggled to hold the camera steady to take this picture. :-)
Another city where I spent couple of days is Washington. Went to lot of Museums in the Capitol Hill Area. Spent an entire day in Smithsonian Museums catering to subjects like Aeronautics, Biology, American History etc.
The places in Research Triangle Park (RTP) were in stark contrast to other places. It is a peaceful countryside with lot of vegetation. My office in RTP is inside a forest and I got scared driving to that place on my first night there. November was the best time to be here in RTP. You could not find two trees of the same color. There were difference shades of orange, red and yellow all over the place.
Now, all the trees have fresh leaves and they are all green.. :-(
That almost covers my trip in US. oops.. missed one place.. San Francisco.. How can miss it.. Drove from San Jose to SF on a weekend with Rohan and Family. Drove through the still-being-painted Golden Gate Bridge. Went on a boat cruise around The Rock (Alcatraz Prison).
Tried to do a Magneto Act (You have to see X-Men: The Last Stand :-) ). Oh man, that thing is real heavy !! :-)
This is first post in 2007. Happy new year to everyone who comes across this blog.
Visited a lot of airports on my way. Waiting on some airports was a pleasant experience, especially in Singapore. On some others, it was quite painful.
- Raleigh Durham
- Washington Dulles
- Los Angels
- San Jose Minetta
- San Francisco
- Hong Kong
- Singapore Changi
- Bangalore
- Frankfurt
- Chicago O'Hare
- Raleigh Durham
One of the places, I liked was the Lick Observatory, Hamilton Hills near San Jose. It was only an hour's drive away from San Jose. The place was pretty fogged up when we went there. The visibility was only 10 feet. Ramji did very good job of keeping his Kia Amanti on road and not going into one of those chasms on the sides of the road. The below photo shows our pic on top of
Hamilton Hills.
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| From Lick Observatory |
The city that impressed me most is Chicago which has lot of big and old building and and the beach. Sabarish and Meena were my hosts in Chicago. The best view of the city was from top of either John Hancock or Sears towers. It seems you can see the neighboring states from those towers. Could not go on top of Sears as we got a little late. Below picture is from John Hancock.
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| From Chicago |
Another nice view is from the Navy Pier in the night. All the building were lit up brightly and they were getting reflected on Lake Michigan.
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| From Chicago |
Another city where I spent couple of days is Washington. Went to lot of Museums in the Capitol Hill Area. Spent an entire day in Smithsonian Museums catering to subjects like Aeronautics, Biology, American History etc.
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| From Washington |
The places in Research Triangle Park (RTP) were in stark contrast to other places. It is a peaceful countryside with lot of vegetation. My office in RTP is inside a forest and I got scared driving to that place on my first night there. November was the best time to be here in RTP. You could not find two trees of the same color. There were difference shades of orange, red and yellow all over the place.
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| From Research Tria... |
Now, all the trees have fresh leaves and they are all green.. :-(
That almost covers my trip in US. oops.. missed one place.. San Francisco.. How can miss it.. Drove from San Jose to SF on a weekend with Rohan and Family. Drove through the still-being-painted Golden Gate Bridge. Went on a boat cruise around The Rock (Alcatraz Prison).
Tried to do a Magneto Act (You have to see X-Men: The Last Stand :-) ). Oh man, that thing is real heavy !! :-)
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| From Sanfrancisco |
This is first post in 2007. Happy new year to everyone who comes across this blog.
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