Once again I am too lazy to get out house. Working with still life will be my excuse for today. Two resulting images of ice cubes are here.
This is the closest I could get to them with my 18-55mm lens. It seems that I really need a macro lens for a better and more detail picture of ice cubes. At first I though of using 75-300mm lens that I have, but it has 1.5m minimum focusing length, so it doesn’t work. 18-55mm needs just 30cm.
Pretty often one needs to convert something from one measuring system into another. Temperatures, cloth sizes, currencies, etc. There are, of course, many tools available that help with these tasks. Google is one (try searching for “20 kilometers in miles“. units program installed on about every Linux machine can be another. WorldMate for SymbianOS that runs on smartphones like SonyEricsson P800/P900/P910 is yet another.
But all of these programs are missing one measure or another.
Today I came across an ultimate convertion tool – OnlineConversion.com. It has all the standard measures and much more. For examlpe, it has currency converter for 164 currencies. As another example, Morse code converter. You can even calculate your age in seconds.
I’m telling you, this thing is ultimate!
Once in a while there is some extremely stupid thing that goes around many blogs on the web. This time it is a list of 200 things to do. You put this list in your blog and you mark the things you did with bold. Then you get surprised how many things you’ve actually did already. Anyway, the examples are here, here, here, here, and here.
Read further for my results, if you are interested.
RSS is one of the most common abbreviations on the web today. Yet, not too many people fully understand what it is, how it can be used, and why would someone want to use it. There is an excellent document here which tells the story of RSS from a non-technical point of view. I would really suggest everyone, who is not already deep into RSS, to read the article.
Anyone who has been even once in McDonald’s during the last few years probably noticed that McDonald’s is a very multilingual company. McDonald’s franchises appear in many countries of the world and a lot of products and marketing materials target more than one country.
Theres is an interesting study of McDonald’s languages here. It is in a form of a quiz, which gives you a couple of phrases in some language and a choice of languages and asks you to guess which the correct language. It also provides some information about the language, such as the geography of the language and identifying characteristics. It can help you understand the differences between as many as 34 languages much better.
At least something good comes out of all those visits to McDonald’s…