Sunday, November 20, 2005
Low fireworks The photo is from yesterday, but it is still new for most of you so the photo-a-day is still going strong for me Today was spend in a very productive fashion – bugfixing. I had a lot of feedback for SBackup over last couple of months – it was time to fix some [...]
Saturday, November 19, 2005
Little tiny side note: F-Spot rules as a photo organiser: I can import my photos from the camera, tag them, print them, export them too photo albums, BUT there are two tiny issues:* why cann’t I start GIMP on a photo and automatically get a new Version of it when I save (preferable a separate [...]
Saturday, November 19, 2005
Creepy windows Today was the Independence day of Latvia. I spent most of it walking around the city of Riga with a camera and taking pictures. The weather was fantastic (except it was cold and icy) the colors that spread across the sky and people were truly amazing. I took lots and lots of pictures [...]
Friday, November 18, 2005
Mokso The photo is from yesterday, but I have not taken a picture today and spent most of the day thinking – about life, about future, about past.Looked back at SBackup. It seams that many people are using it. I should probably fix the bugs. Spent some time planing the bugfixes and the path ahead [...]
Thursday, November 17, 2005
New leaf I called this shot – “new fallen leafs stand tall”. Despite allmost filling my 1Gb card with street photos and aikido photos yesterday, I somehow found myself wandering back to this shot all the time.A couple other good shots are back in my Flickr gallery.If you want to see lots of misguided aikido [...]
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Moon Just a full moon. How many of you can resist a full moon on an cloudless night just after you got you new camera and 300mm lens?I couldn’t.Not much of artistic value, just plain nature. My camera was spotted by my aikido sensey today, so he asked me to come to a special demo [...]
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Yesterday I received my new Canon 350D and of course most of the evening was spent trying it out on different subjects, with different lenses, in different settings. The results look quite awful – the camera exposes any your mistake . But I will still try to stand by my idea of trying to do [...]
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Now that I have had time to consider my reactions, I will write down, what was my experience in Dublin, when I went for a on-site interview for a job in Google. First of all, I had to sign an NDA before entering the office, so I can not tell you about anything that I [...]
Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Now I am getting a bit photoestatique – my Canon EF 100-300mm f/4.5-5.6 USM lens has already arrived and my Canon Digital Rebel XT (350D) with the kit lens and a 1 Gb Compact Flash card has shipped from USA today. When it arrives, I will go to a local shop and buy myself a [...]
Thursday, November 3, 2005
Going out of the house to fly to Dublin for the final Google interview. Ganbattene! Banzai!
