Year: 2004

Picture of the day

SignsToday is exactly one month since I’ve started the ‘Picture of the day’ project. One part of me is sceptic and cannot believe that a month past by. Another part of me is very proud. It is proud not of all that crap I put out on a daily basis, but about the dedication I put into it. I’ve learnt a couple of cool tricks along the way.

I was thinking if I should continue this or not, and if I should than for how long. On one hand, I am pretty bored with this already. On another hand it does teach me alot and I get constant practice. Yet on another, Chernobyl kid kind of hand, I have a couple of other projects in my head. I think I will continue with the ‘Picture of the day’ thingy for another month. I will also move the folder to be a part of, yet to be created, ‘Projects’ tree. I will also start with other projects and will let you know on how it goes. Stay tuned in other words.

Anyway, today I was shooting straight out of my car, while driving home from work. The funny thing I’ve noticed on the way are the signs of all those little workshops in the downtown. One of them was for signs. Somehow the guy head the dirtiest sign around. And his phone numbers were way too old (without mandatory 25 Limassol prefix). I can only imagine what kind of signs he can make. Hehe. Kind of my photos. But I don’t do them for money. Yet. Maybe I should.

SpiraClock

Sometimes I get a feeling that everything there is to invent and develop has been invented and developed. Like organizers for example. How many ways of organizing your appointments and alarms do you know? How many different ways can you do it? I bet, you don’t even use your second hand to count them. Organizer is a pretty standard application these days. Interfaces of different organizer programs look very similar. And most of them look exactly like the paper alternative which was used years ago.

Well, I came across something called SpiraClock, which is an original way of organizing appointments and alarms. It looks much better and cleaner than everything that I’ve seen until now. There are a few applications implementing the idea too. Though I haven’t found anything for Linux yet. But the idea is worth the time.

Milena’s Birthday

MilenaHere are the pictures from Milena’s birthday party (today for those in the unknown). It was a great party with lots of excellent food, drinks, nice people and music. Especially music. Especially towards the end, when there was a real rock concert with electric guitar, bass, keyboard and a couple of microphones. Cool!

Photography-wise it was pretty tough. There was defenetily a lack of light. Most of the pictures were done with ISO1600 setting, f4.5 or f5.6 aperture, on-camera flash, and some are still blurry. It seems that I really need a more powerful flash unit.