Spaceman-Spiff March 1st, 2010
Been following this guy’s TwitPic. Lots of amazing pics.
Full Moon high up in the sky
Mahajamba, Madagaskar
Near Jakarta, Indonesia
Icy Aral Sea
And in case you’re wondering: yes, these pics were taken from the space.
Spaceman-Spiff February 11th, 2010
I don’t really believe in making new year’s resolutions. When my friends or coworkers ask what my new year’s resolution is, I always answer “I got none”. I think it’s pointless. You can make resolutions any time of the year, so why do you have to make one for the new year just because everyone else is doing it? Besides, most people usually quit doing their NY resolutions just weeks after the new year. That’s probably because most of them only have a new year’s resolution for the sake of having one, not because they really resolute.
So, it’s still not that far from the New Year’s Day, hence the title, and I have two resolutions:
Spaceman-Spiff February 9th, 2010
Polish newspaper claims ‘Pedobear’ is 2010 Vancouver Olympic mascot
A Polish newspaper mistakenly identified “Pedobear“, a notorious internet meme, as one of the mascots of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
The Gazeta Olsztynska published an image showing the bear alongside genuine Olympic mascots Quatchi, Sumi, Miga and Mukmuk to illustrate a feature about the Games.
It appears that the newspaper lifted the picture from Google Images, unaware that it had been created as a prank by Michael Barrick, a Canadian artist and graphic designer
Source: telegraph.co.uk
It all started from this guy’s blog: Michael R. Barrick – New Mascot Added to the Vancouver 2010 Team
Michael photoshopped Pedobear into the Vancouver Mascot team drawing. It’s a pretty good and believeable Photoshop work:
Some of the blog’s visitors also participated and made more photoshopped images and pictures:
I for one, welcome Pedobear as our 4th mascot.
Spaceman-Spiff December 8th, 2009
Google Reader has a very convenient feature for sharing or noting web articles or contents. You can find this tool under Your Stuff:
The functionality is similar with Wordpress’ Blog This shortcut/button, but I find this more useful, as I share stuff on Google Reader a lot more often than I blog 
.
After putting this shortcut/button on your browser’s bookmark toolbar, you can use it on any web page you want to share. For example, I found this good deal on NCIX sale page. To share this on my Google Reader, all I need is to highlight the part I want to share, then click the shortcut/button.
Good deal!
The Google Reader box pops up on the right corner of your browser page. You can fill in notes there and check/uncheck the option to share the item. After you click Post Item, you can see it in your Google Reader under Your Stuff. There, you can add more comments, email, star, or do anything to it like any other Google Reader item.
 The new item on Google Reader |
 What it looks like when you email it |
I also been using this feature lately to email interesting articles I found to friends. Most news websites do provide emailing feature on their articles, but often they come with a captcha field and missing Google’s useful auto-complete contact list.
Spaceman-Spiff June 24th, 2009
My 35mm Nikon prime lens arrived today. Took a few quick test shots, all in f/1.8:
I love the bokeh. Sometimes at f/1.8 focusing is hard, object an inch further/closer will be blurry. Got lots of practising to do. I can feel that this will soon be my new fav lens.
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