all nighter series

Midnight pickup all the way through to a thosai breakfast at the Tekka Market. It was a fantastic photo-outing.

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the all nighter

we (the group of us) dont usually have the time to get together during the day to go around satisfying our need for photography. we do all nighters on weekends to get our dosage of sanity instead.

am having problems with calibrating my monitor in vista (perhaps a post on it later)…so colors to this might not match what i am seeing here.

no post-shoot photoshop magic, all effects are done onsite.

(ask, don’t steal )

irritating or secure?

part of the vista’s new security initiative is prompting the user of system changes that happen during the course of his/her usage of the operating system. problem is, i feel that it is one hell of a major irritant. linux (in gui windows to be exact) has had these system change prompts as long as i can remember, but it’s not made in a way that pushes a user to go “dammit, do you have to ask me to do what i want you to do everytime?”.

sure it’s one way to keep the system “secure” but won’t it be so irritating that a user will just click “allow” everytime it prompts without thinking because its so amazingly in-your-face-for-the-umpteenth-time? maybe they’ll motion to change it when someone actually kills himself because of it…..anythings possible on the www.

instead of prompting for action verification everytime the system does something, linux just asks the user for credentials to enter the administrative mode and make changes in that one verified admin session within a user one. windows on the other hand, almost never had so called “administrative modes” because, every new default user is an administrator unless specified.

perhaps, what is needed is really a shift in so called windows computing “traditions”. users will have to get used to the fact that the *nix model of “never root” is actually more secure thus desirable.

another point that i think is worth a mention is ms exchange 07s’ shift towards command prompt (commandlets?) and module based operation – is it me or is it ms decided that the “*nix” way might just work better?

crossed & squared

that morning at the dilapidated army building…

(for some reason you need them, just ask…please?)

girls out loud

ohkay, i need to get this off me head before i start working on something.

i don’t usually watch the tube (read: very rarely). i was just heading out to the bathroom for a quick shower before writing a short write-up about Microsoft Vista installation for work (installing Vista: by a Linux guy – very interesting). the housemate was watching tcs 5 -show called “girls out loud”. i made a detour to the couch to see what its all about.

the housemate filled me in on it – apparently it’s a show hosted by a somewhat celebrity blogger and another lass who i think was one half of a MacDonald’s advert aired quite a while back (the last time i got caught in front of the t.v – that’s maybe a year back!). the shows supposedly to be about gurls in sg…what they do, like to do, glamour, femininity and all that.

it took me just over 3 minutes to realise, maybe the sole reason why bloggers are bloggers is because they are seriously not supposed to be in-front of a camera. definitely not for a show that airs nation-wide. looks aside (search on the net for the show title & “xia xue” and you’ll find out about that department yourself), personally i think shes stiff, fake-ish, and squeals just to be audible.

no offence girl, the only place that i think you should be broadcasting to the world, would be from between the chair and your keyboard.

ok, i should stop before i get carried away with descriptives of the amount of flak/support this very person is with being a “celebrity blogger” (is she a celebrity who blogs or one that gets celebrity status for being a blogger – i can never figure it out with that title :p) .

deviated

apparently i have been bitten my the laze bug when coming to writing (so much for getting back into it). probably due to the fact i have rekindled an old hobby that i have abandoned a long time back – photography. i was hoping that by getting back to what i loved before, i could claw my way to some form of exit from a somewhat depressing and trying state of mind.

just recently i’ve gotten in touch with a long lost mate who started photography due to my antics with a film image capturing device years ago. he continued on the journey of finding a way to earn money from it, and is now pretty much past where i was competent before i left it. he offered me the very camera that he started out with (i hated the plastic feel/sounds of it when i first tested it) and a price no one can ever resist – yeah irony always has an interesting way to find me.

i’ve been jumping at every chance i could get at photographing something…but usually with poor results (personally). for now, i am just happy that i am doing it again.

The Esplanade vicinity – December 02-03

(they’re weak yes but if you do need to use the pictures – please do not steal, just ask…)