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I just got my Lumix LX3 a few days ago and I’m lovin’ it! Having just purchased a Sony W120 a few weeks before, I’m sure you can think of a bunch of questions; Why upgrade? Why Panasonic? etc. etc. I’ll be discussing that as well as talk about my experience with the LX3 thus far. Read More
Since I started this hobby (photography) a couple of years ago, only now have I finally invested on a tripod. There are a bunch of reasons why I ended up waiting this long. But after all is said and done – I finally have one of my own; and ain’t she a beauty!
It’s been a long while since I last posted anything – doing NYC hours for work can really take its toll on you. But during the day, when not doing errands, or hanging out with my girlfriend (or sleeping). I’ve been tweaking nargalzius.com quite a bit.
Of course a lot of other stuff has happened but lets save those for another day. This time I just want to pimp Flickr after something I recently did with my site.
Just recently, I finally convinced myself to sign-up with Flickr‘s premium membership to lift the limitations of the free service (infinite upload bandwidth and collection/set creation, etc.).
Now I’ve always had the preference to use Flickr for all my picture needs. After all, even the free service they have already has pleny-a-benefit if you want to have reliable image hosting that can embedded anywhere. I even didn’t mind the premium membership price because it was well worth it.
The only reason I didn’t go all-Flickr was because for a “personal gallery,” I really wanted people accessing it through my domain and have the layout/design gel with my sites overall theme. Hence, I used to have a separate gallery for my actual photo sets. And just used Flickr as a general repository for images I use for blog posts. Read More
Everyone knows that a lot of things happened during the weekend. The whole Super Typhoon Reming issue was enough to keep everyone busy.
We were slated to have a concert in Culion, Palawan, and Jowi, Jampao and I went ahead of the group… about a day before – this was before Reming was even a problem.
The group was scheduled to leave on a Friday. Sure enough, their flight was cancelled – and tension rose for the three of us in Culion (well, actually only Jowi was stressed since she was the point person for this, Jamps and I were just taking it easy). Would there be a possibility that the group not make it at all?
One joke we had was actually pulling off the concert with only three of us – after all we had a guy, a girl, and a pianist. So if we switched repertoires to all solos it would’ve been quite feasible. Still, nakakahiya sa mga organizers, since they booked and paid for everything – the prospect of a half-assed performance [with only about a fifth of the members] wasn’t an option.
Fortunately God as usual, seemed to be on BP’s side, and the rest of the group was able to reach arrive the next day, and everything fell into place afterwards.
Now I’m back and I have a fever… I’m hoping it’s just due to fatigue over the weekend, and not symptomatic of more a serious illness (e.g. Malaria, Dengue, etc.)
No regrets though, we had a blast – and have pictures to prove it! Read More
I’ve been knocking myself out with Google Earth recently. I found the activity of looking for some location from a generally “uncharted” map of the Philippines (it only goes as far as showing major cities) very engaging.
Still, there are some misgivings I have with it. First is the free version doesn’t allow you to draw polygons. I could understand why the Plus and Pro versions give you better network access, which is fair enough. But drawing custom shapes/polygons can be done locally in a machine, I wish they just enable it on the free version as well. Having the ability to input custom shapes to draw area perimeters is very useful especially in the Philippine context – because we have lousy Civil Engineers who make me wish there was some kind of SIM City feature in real life to just obliterate a chunk of area and replace it with properly distributed structures and roads. But I digress. Read More
