Month: June 2004

Digital Photography Composition 101

More and more people start to realize that with the recent progress of digital photography and increasing number of chip appliances like phone cameras, key ring cameras, really good point and shoot cameras, etc there should be some training available for all those people. Thousands if not millions of below average images are getting dumped into the web each day, and yours truly is taking part in all that. :)

So there is this story at Slashdot, which links to an article that has a number of links to other places – all fast and convenient for educating yourself about the basics of photography. Comments to this Slashdot submission are also useful (for links like this and this), so take a minute and flip through them.

Quest for GPS device updates

Fortuna GPSmart

My quest for the GPS device still continues. The latest device that I am thinking about is Fortuna GPSmart Bluetooth GPS Receiver. This one can work standalone as many others, but can also connect via Bluetooth to many other devices. One of these devices can be my SonyEricsson P800. Such a combination can boost the application horizons increadably. Here is a place to buy this device for about $180 USD. Here is a forum (in Russian) where people discuss this device together with P800. And here is another Russian forum with general GPS topics.

Some more GPS related links are here. These are all in Russian, but not all the places where they lead to. There are a number of GPS map repositories out there.

Taking Lives

Watched “Taking Lives” in the cinema. Overall it a good movie and worth seeing. But there was something missing. Something, that you can’t put your finger on. After a bit of thinking and talking to Olga, I think I got it. Basically, the whole movie is focused on Illeana (FBI agent played by Angelina Jolie) and Costa (serial killer, played by Ethan Hawke). Both performed very good. There were few other people in the movie, like Costa’s mother and few cops. But relationships between all of them are not touched at all. No history was talled although the feeling is that there is plenty of it going on. It starts to look that director’s cut is much longer then the resulting movie.

Beer corners update

Today is Friday, so I decided to meet with few old friends for a pint or two. First place to check was Rio Bravo (about 200 meters down from the K-Cineplex, Limassol). I’ve been here few times before and didn’t particularly like the place. This time it was much better. They started to make their own chips instead of serving some ugly 30 cent stuff. The music wasn’t shouting until late into the evening. It was also a birthday party of the bar (4 – 6 June), so they had an offer of all the drinks for only 1 CYP under the condition that you will go and get them by yourself. That didn’t work for us though, but, somehow, we managed to get few free pints, baseball caps, and some other useless items.

Around midnight we went to check another place – Molly Malone’s Irish Pub & Restaurant. It’s a nice place 100 meters to the left of Chesters Bar. It’s huge, but quiete. We liked it there mostly. I’ve also heard that there is nice food also, but it was too late to order anything, and the kitchen was closed anyway. We’ll be back. :)