me

thats me this evening trying a self portrait. thats my camera sony dsc f717

power of blogs

......there are some! russell beattie is using his blogs to educate people here in us and blog reading community to go out and vote on tuesday for the us presidential election.
i feel its a good effor on his part to get and educate people about the facts and their rights which are easy to be taken away if you arent aware. read this on his notebook.

30 down

......so its 30 years down for me today.
not much going on at the moment. went out for the morning jog, was a bit cold today, around 48f or 8c. sitting back and listening to classic gold digital radio station from uk (see radio in media player 10)

how to be creative....

...stumbled upon something that is worth a reading. i myself havent read it all, but so far it speaks the truth, and is right on the mark.
Read here

Windows Rule #1

......if something is not working and you are ready to call the support, just reboot and give it a one more shot. you dont have anything to lose, but it might just work, saving you from the support guy looking at you and wondering 'you geek, see it works now!'

and then it happened.....

.....again. booted my xp pro laptop at home, and it just sat there after the login. no disk activity.nothing.tried safe mode.no good. tried repairing option.no good.tried re-install over the existing home.setup starts and sits their saying 'setup will complete in 39 minutes'.says that for more than a hour. no activity.
time to recap what happened at last reboot.windows did prompt that it had restored a corrupt registry setting from a backup, and the only button to respond with was ok.did that.i mean what else can you do.no info on what it did restore/repair.
hmm panic starts to build in. the data being lost (mostly my 717 picture library and music library). got hold of a iomega ion usb hdd-caddy. opened up the laptop to get my toshiba hdd out and saddle it up in the caddy. lo behold, the drive now comes up as a e: drive on my desktop [xp pro again ;-)]. anywyas, copied everything out the desktop and now in the middle of a clean new reinstall of xp pro (after a format). hope it goes well.
and yeah, i am at 'setup will complete in approximately 9 minutes'.
thanks to everyone who helped me out. you know who you are :-)

Firefox revvs up...

....against arch rival MSIE. we all have been seeing this for a while. and we all love the speed with which firefox renders your web.blazing fast. but doesnt it do that coz its not bloated like msie with tonnes of parsers and renderers to make your css and styles better looking (which firefox doesnt....at the moment). stumbled upon this article, speaking greatly of the war between m$ and open source community fueling the blazing fast speeds of firefox.

Weekend Tennis plans,

wet and cloudy morning
Plans to go and play some tennis this weekend were drenched in the wet and overcast morning this saturday. It was raining most of the night, and I dont see any sign of sun coming up atleast for the day today. Well, no tennis and no photography today (atleast for now)

interesting,

stumbled upon this website of a upcoming singer/writer. She is from India, and left the IT world to pursue music. There are a couple of sample clips at the site which are kinda good to hear to.
Look out for the single 'Eye for an eye'
Check out at http://www.anjalionline.com/

ahhh, this is how,

you set the title for the entry!

4 shot panoramic shot

Shooting panoramic shots is wonderful. Just look around over the horizon, and set up a tripod and your camera, lock on to manual to control 'even' exposure, and go on shooting frames. I usually overlap every frame with 50% of the previous ones. Once they are done, stitch with Panorama Factory (or any other pano tool of your choice)....end results are nice!

the Creative Zen mp3 player looks cool, ready to give some fight to the iPods, but must admit that iPods have created a place for themselves in the market. Tough to beat, but lets see how this Creative Zen does.

The Media Player 10 seems to be a good effor to move towards iTune.
There are now integrated tabs to go to the onliune Music library @ MSN, where tracks can be bought for $0.99/track.
The Listening Booth at the music store is kinda cool to let you hear some complete albums, streaming.
Enjoying 'Astronaut' by Duran Duran.