Horizons
There were beautiful wisps of clouds in the sky that dissipated all light neatly across the sky today. I like how they create something like lines in the sky. They're also the reason to the sun's pretentious size.
I'm also trying the new polariser here.

View On White (not sure whether it fits well or not so I'm leaving the link here)

I've been lurking around the library and swimming through books so much lately that I haven't even found the time to pick up the camera for a couple weeks now. That was put to an end on Sunday.
I recently made the decision to (almost) always carry the camera with me whenever I head out and know I won't be professionally preoccupied. So on Sunday after dinner and some book scrounging I broke away from the crowd I whence started out with and went for a walk along the beach; camera in hand and finger on the button, photo ready. Not a bad idea I'd say. I spent most of the afternoon enjoying the lovely-slowly arriving summer.
Used up a full battery and put the second in... which turned out to be a stubborn one, refusing to work. I had it replaced today with a working one so all is good.

Speaking of electrical things breaking. My laptop decided to take its last breath on Saturday (or was it Friday?). Oh the horror. Harddisk is fine so it didn't completely jump off the ledge. I've narrowed the problem down to motherboard or cpu. Hoping it's the cpu for that I can at least replace. The motherboard would be a lost case with all these customised motherboards for laptops and all.
Fingers crossed it's an easy fix. My wallet is not allowing me to afford a new laptop so soon. Been looking at those ultraportables though.

More flickr updates will be up soon. One thing I (probably should have earlier) discovered that is pretty silly for me not to have realised till now is that there is no rule saying that I have to finish post-processing and post all the photos from one collection right away and at the same time. This makes post-processing and shuffling through photos from a day much more enjoyable. I'll stop whenever I feel like it and post whatever I have and save it for later whenever. Enjoyability and convenience aside, it gives a larger chance and more time for flickr'ers to see all my new uploads.

Time to go back to my another day in another week of another month in yet another year.

(Note; I'm testing a different comment form that will pop up if you click the "leave a reply" link under this post. Blogger doesn't allow me to create a different comment form for the "comment" link to the right but I'll try to figure it out.)

EDIT: I've changed the comment form back to how it used to be. Normal link to the right of here does the trick again.
EDIT2: New upgrade to the comment form. It has now been implemented both under each post and under the comment bar to the right depending on which link you click, with user friendly-interface in the spotlight.

Labels: annoying points about blogger, bored, bugs, computer, flickr, life, photo, rant, reflections

The Last
moments of light before the darkness of reality forces itself back out.

Should be viewed large on black.

So I've been quite busy with books and the library and all that lately but when things start becoming too monotonous my brain starts becoming heterogeneous. What that means to the space that I call my personal is relocation and silly ideas. It has only been two days since I started my search for another world but so far I have glued (not strong) two small wooden blocks to my work desk so I can prop my laptop up against the wall easier. That isn't much of a change from how I've had it up till now other than now the prop is wood and not white-tack. Taking the laptop down is much easier now. And if you're wondering how I use the keyboard now then Synergy is the answer; one keyboard, one mouse, two komputers.
I've also reorganised everything to the right of my computers, I call it efficiency upgrade.. but that is just to make myself feel that I didn't waste half an hour of my life.
I used to have a laundry bag I was going to make but my fingers were too lazy at first and then too busy to finish that project. The materials are still lying in the bottom right of my wardrobe, right where they were a month ago too. I need that bag quite sorely. Some day, some time.
In five minutes I will start searching for the blogger code to add an "Older Posts" and "Newer Posts" link to my blog.




EDIT: here's a beautiful mspaint demonstration of how my computers are set up.







Speaking of websites, yesterday I put a drafted one together, one of those personal websites, based on the strange design I came up with three posts ago. It's not too bad and definitely need working on. I have a well of other ideas I want to realise into concept ideas some day. I'll try for something less, hmm, simple next time.
Go check it out: http://www.geocities.com/talleyway/index.html
Unfortunately I don't have a personal webspace and am too lazy to go searching for a good free service so I popped it into my existing geocities account. Click away the ad-sidebar when you're there.

Been checking out pixelpost lately. A great photoblogging application for databasing and showcasing photography. Fully customiseable. I'll be working with that a little in the near future.

Tom Clancy's End War is finally out for PC. Can't wait to try it out. Voice recognition warfare. *drool* I haven't bought a game in years but I think this will be next in line if the offline turns out to prove good prospects for online gaming.

As for my twitter-week experience. It started out alright, quite fun to share bits and pieces of my everyday life. But it only took one day to start feeling imposed upon by the intraweb. I found it increasingly harder and harder to keep up the updates as I wanted to share less and less information (apart from it being tedious to announce every bit of my day). It was a little relieving to be able to share some of my personal life even if there might not have been anyone on the receiving end. But Susan Greeenfield would beg to differ. I can see the angle she is coming from. The social community today has morphed to something very different from what it used to be only a decade ago. The constantly shifting economy of knowledge is a very different world as specialisation become the keyword of the century. Technology is growing and the world is shrinking.
Keep up, the times are changing.

Currently rediscovered playlist: Feist - Let It Die

Labels: agenda, annoying points about blogger, bored, bugs, computer, flickr, globalisation, goal, life, personal website, photo, rant, reflections, social awareness, time, Twitter, website

Figured as a computer-convenience/efficiency fanatic I'd be thus entitled to publicise my latest discovery. Its name is Ubiquity by Mozilla Firefox.
Don't get the wrong image here. I don't often go off on a rant to promote some application. But I found this thing pretty interesting and has great potential to become something big. I'm going to try to get used to using it for the fun of it and see where it gets me.
Evidently, it's an extension by mozilla for firefox.
Basically this little nifty thing's mission is to minimise the need for a mouse, maximise the number of commands possible from just the keyboard, and minimise the number of clicks and taps required for each desired task.
Still don't get it? Check this youtube clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knNS-5em7xU
Get it now?

So, say I want to email something to someone. All I would have to do is hit a shortcut on my keyboard, type: email to me hi, I'm saying something.
And it would then email "hi, I'm saying something" to myself. And that's not all.
The standard number of commands the application comes with is quite little, so I went here and went ahead and added dozens of more commands. Now, if I'm curious about a currency conversion I just need to type: currency 1 GBP NOK. and I'm getting 10.2210 NOK

Be it a calculator, map search, google search, dictionary search, email, FB status update. this thing does it all. the number of things it can do is virtually limitless as long as you create or find a command for it to add to your repertoire.

If you're a Firefox user and are interested in making life easier on the digital side of your life, I recommend spending a couple minutes setting Ubiquity up and have a go at it. Worst case scenario, you find it useless or too complicated and don't use it.

Labels: computer, extension, Firefox, Mozilla, Ubiquity