IMAGE_031, originally uploaded by rizvi.
This entry is not exactly about my favorite cereal though Frosted Flakes and Smacks are my favorite breakfast cereal.
This picture was taken a few days ago while it was still freezing cold in Seattle using my new camera-phone or is that phone camera. I like the texture of the frost on my car’s window.
Seattle Downtown (Retouched), originally uploaded by rizvi.
This is a view of Seattle downtown I have enjoyed since I newly moved to Seattle and it still fascinates me more than 3 years later.
This photo was an experiment with my new 2 Mega Pixel Camera/PDA phone (Cingular 8525), uploaded from my phone directly to Flickr.com using ShoZu via Cingular UMTS network and I did some retouching with snipshot.com and it came out pretty decent after that. The only mistake I make was when saving the retouched version I did not click hi-res (live and learn).
You can see the original untouched version here.
Found this interesting comparison in Don Watmore’s time management newsletter:
FRUGAL OR CHEAP?
Frugal is being economical and not unnecessarily overpaying. Cheap is
unnecessarily and uneconomically paying less.
Frugal is comparing prices on an item and selecting the lower price.
Cheap is driving across town, using five dollars of gas to save one
dollar on an item.
Frugal is selecting a gift that offers high value at a low cost. Cheap
is not giving a gift rationalizing, “They’ll never notice it.”
Cheap is looking at every expenditure as an expense to be avoided.
Frugal is understanding that some expenditures are investments and
looking at what one gets back rather than what one pays.
Frugal is a good time management practice. Cheap is a poor time
management choice.
I thought I found the perfect iPod alternative with the right price:
http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Item(1940)-SDMX4-4096-Sansa_e260_MP3_Player_4GB.aspx
but after reading this review I have some doubt:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ZDM/story?id=1954149
(here are my notes on this article)
Some of the things that are kind of negative for me is:
* Requirement of Windows XP (I have Win 2k at home).
* No support for my Mac Powerbook
* No support for audible.com (I had a subscription and lot of audio books from them).
* Video compression and slower frame rate (15 vs 25-30) [not a huge deal]
* Mono uncompressed voice recording (I am not sure what other recorders offer like iPod with the accessory)
BestBuy has a $40 off deal on it so looks interesting, may be I will try it out if there is no restocking fee to return if I don't like it.
What do you think?
Found this touching piece in Don Watmore's time management newsletter:
MY HANDS WERE BUSY
My hands were busy through the day.
I didn’t have much time to play.
The little games you asked to do,
I didn’t have much time for you.
I’d wash your clothes. I’d sew and cook.
You’d ask and I’d read from your book.
I’d tuck you in all safe at night,
And hear your prayers; turn out the light.
Then tiptoe softly by your door,
I wish I’d stayed a minute more.
For life was short, the years rushed past,
A little boy grows up so fast.
No longer is he at my side,
His precious secrets to confide.
The picture books are put away.
There are no longer games to play.
No Teddy Bears or misplaced toys
No sleepovers with lots of boys.
No goodnight kiss, no prayers to hear.
That all belongs to yesteryear.
My hands, once busy, now are still.
The days are long and hard to fill.
I wish I could go back and do
The little things you asked me to do.
Anonymous
I am very excited about tomorrow's mind camp. This is my second one and this time I am prepared (or so I think), how can you prepare for something that is described like this:
" What happens when you put 200 of Seattle's smartest geeks in a creative environment for 24 hours? We're not sure either, but we'd like to find out. It's time to meet and connect with those involved in the interesting projects going on in Seattle in a relaxed environment. Come, camp out, create."
Here is a blog entry that helps understand what to expect and the philosophy behind it:
Getting ready for Seattle Mind Camp – The Philosophical Guide
More later!
The title of this post is the exact subject line of an email that a friend of mine whom I evangelized 30boxes a few days ago. I have tried a lot of calendar web apps and here was my initial quick response to him.
On 4/13/06, Ali Rizvi <aliabbasrizvi AT *.com> wrote:
Yes, I noticed it on slashdot this morning from the Canada on Rails conference floor. Yes, it is the first ever conference on Ruby on Rails and I am here in Vancouver, BC to attend it.
It is interesting I got email from both Kiko and Airset this morning announcing new features.
Here is my initial observation on kiko vs 30boxes vs Google Calendar.
Google Calendar and Kiko => does not work on Safari, 30boxes does
Google Calendar does not have recurring appointment, kiko does it but not intelligently, 30boxes does it intutitively
Google Calendar's Kiko's Natural Language Processing natural language processing is less intelligent than 30boxes.
Google Calendar does not share based on tags, 30boxes does but Google has Public sharing option which can hide details but show busy/available information which is definitely good.
These are just my initial finding and I have only looked at Google Calendar and new Kiko for few minutes and not even tried Airset yet. I will come up with a detailed review may be later.
Let me know how the pop ups that you said work. I might try it soon.
Regards,
Ali
On 4/13/06 A Friend wrote:
I can't seem to go through to my favorite calendaring website 30boxes.com. It seems like a DNS issues as I found out there IP address (70.86.147.34) through the whois entry on Network Solutions (their current registrant).
Although the IP shows that there is a webserver running serving 30boxes contents but I am unable to authenticate into the site, most likely because of SSL stuff.
The reason I was inclined to look up their IP was because of the recent story on Slashdot about denial of service (DDoS) attack on Joker.com.
I can't believe how dependent I have become on the internet. I am searching all over the internet whenever things like gmail or 30boxes go down. I also searched for any recent slashdot entry that could have caused this outage but couldn't find even a blog entry to confirm it so I am not sure if it is just me or the whole world with out the best calendar available online (yet).
PS: I just confirmed with a friend over google talk (inside gmail browser window, of course) that it is indeed an outage. I am not sure if they are preparing to announce their acquisition or it is a plain old DoS on their DNS company.
by Don Wetmore
The point is, if you are ever in a position when you can never say “no?, then you are always saying “yes?, and like the song says, “If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for everything?.
Try these:
And as you speak, smile.
Blog This!You can easily blog interesting web content with Flock, in just a few clicks.Example: 1. Highlight a passage on a web page that you would like to blog about. 2. Right-click that selection and choose Blog This. 3. The blog editor opens with that selection already inserted. Not only that, the selection is properly formatted as a Blockquote and appropriate citation is included.Other ways to Blog This: 1. Open the View menu and choose Topbars and then Blog Topbar. 2. Highlight a text passage and drag it to the box labeled “Drag stuff to blog it!”Or you can use the Shelf (see The Shelf, below).
Flock seems to have some interesting features. It is more of a meta browser based on Mozilla firefox code base.
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