Camera: Canon PowerShot G9, Exposure: 0.04 sec (1/25), Aperture: f/4, Focal Length: 29.2 mm, ISO Speed: 200, Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV, Flash: Flash did not fire
Closeup of Jason Wade, Lifehouse frontman, during a Nokia event held sometime in 2008. Out of the fifty or so shots I took of him in this position, this was the only one that came usable.
Camera: Sony DSLR-A700, Exposure: 0.02 sec (1/50), Aperture: f/5.6, Focal Length: 110 mm, ISO Speed: 800, Exposure Bias: +1 EV, Flash: Auto, Did not fire
Taken at the furthermost edge of Pier 39, San Francisco, you can just make out the outline of Alcatraz island right behind the seagull.
Despite hanging in the air for close to half a year now since the initial announcement back in December, Nokia’s soon-to-be flagship Nseries device is due to be made available sometime in June this year, a little less than two weeks from now. The timing is no real coincidence, after all, Nokia did say they’d be releasing the phone in the tail end of the first half of 2009. What’s more, CommunicAsia is just around the corner, and it makes even more sense that Nokia would choose their Nokia Connection event to shout about the N97, ahead of the anticipated iPhone upgrade and other devices to be announced by competing mobile phone makers at CommunicAsia.
A couple of weeks back, I had the opportunity to check out a couple of prototype N97 devices courtesy of the chaps at Nokia. In short, the hardware was pretty much final, though the software was buggy as hell, suddenly restarting every now and then. [Read more →]
.. or how Time Inc got their asses handed to them by a bunch of internet users with a great deal of time, creativity, imagination and just plain pwn on their hands to dish out.
Long story short, TIME’s annual list of 100 most influential got gamed big time, with the rank 1 position going to ‘moot’, founder of 4chan.org, who basically perpetrated the scheme. Better yet, although TIME sort of admitted that they did notice attempts to hack the voting process, they claim that the final result is unblemished. Riiight. The title of this post is named after the initials of the top 21 names in the list. I highly doubt that’s a coincidence.
The denial’s pretty typical of big media. Admitting weakness, or even worse – incompetence – is one thing that probably won’t happen in either your or my lifetimes, barring cases of monumental fuckups such as share prices dropping to rock bottom levels, or when public scandals force information out into the open via legal means or otherwise. Obviously, TIME isn’t willing to admit that a bunch of internet users figured out how to get past their Captcha implementation, and instead stood by the results as they were.
There’s a very thin line between appearing to look like you’ve got integrity, and looking stupid for getting embarassed and not even being willing to admit to it. On which side do you think TIME stands?
Work, play, family, friends; we live in a time where there’s nothing much else to do in life than work, eat and sleep from Monday to Friday; leaving not much time left over for the things that matter; family, friends and even self.
Is this rat race really worth it? Is the measure of one’s self worth the amount of money that sits in one’s bank account at the end of each month?
Talking about rediscovering oneself is easy. After all, the call to action is merely that: a call. The really tough part is actually doing something about it. And that, maybe, is the hardest thing of all.
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