More shots of the setting sun taken using my iPhone.
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View of the sun setting, from the new seat in my office.
My first attempt at moblogging since this was posted from my 9-month old iPhone! However I am sending this through a wifi network so perhaps this is not a strict moblogged entry after all…
View from my cubicle, at the new office.
My desk
Recently, two new digital SLRs were let loose on the market. Both kits (body + 1 zoom lens) will be sold for less than SG$1800 (or about US$1200). Both sport very similar 10.2 Megapixel sensors.
Since my previous overseas trip to Japan, I had wanted to get a “decent” digital SLR. For its convenience and of course quality. Despite the bulkiness – to be pragmatic, I will not be lugging with me on every single trip – I feel this is the right thing for me.
I was initially quite tempted by the Sony model, with new features (on-camera image stabilization for increasing sharpness in low light conditions as in the past I liked taking photos in churches or other historical buildings). But after talking to the folks at John 3:16, I am having second thoughts. In any case, it’s best – unless there is an urgent need – not to get the camera upon release. There is likely to be technical issues which need time to resolve.
Have you ever had the feeling that when things go wrong, they like to appear in a cluster!?
Well, since Chinese New Year this year (February for the non-Chinese people out there), I have been trying to fix up two PCs for others: one was my former work-horse, stripped-down and sold, and the other was bought from a colleague since it has become a “white elephant”. For the former, prior to it being delivered I noticed that the BIOS was not retaining its settings as soon as power was disconnected – turned out to be a non-critical problem that has at yet no good solution for this series of motherboards from Asus – which after further tinkering was eventually replaced by a second-hand Gigabyte board. In the process, I managed to stuff up another Gigabyte as a result of failed BIOS update and blew up a PSU! Fortunately, the current incarnation seems to be pretty stable and I am not touching it any more… Well, as for the other, there were minor “inconveniences” along the way since this board (MSI Neo2) has only 1 IDE slot and most of my hardware was IDE and not SATA. 🙁 However, as they say, all’s well if it ends well.