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If you squint you can see a skull

October 11th, 2008

There’s an oil stain in the carpark that everytime I pass by it I get a distinct skull impression:

This was taken with the Sony Ericsson C902 Cyber-shot that I’m trialing, I’ve been meaning to write up a couple more of my impressions of the phone, I’ve had Tracey using it a lot and it is such an improvement over the Motorola (although there are some problems/irks that I have).

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Photo: Anti ‘R’ alleyway

August 10th, 2008

I don’t know why the letter R is banned from this alleyway:

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Alleyways - new gallery

July 30th, 2008

As some of you know I have a particular penchant for photos of alleyways, I’m not sure what it is about, possibly that growing up in a lot of country towns we just didn’t have the alleyways that you would see in movies and in the comic books.

They have a very noir feel about them. So anyway I’ve added a new gallery to my gallery page and will slowly upload all the photos I have all themed around alleyways.

The first I’ve uploaded is a recent one because I’ve been playing with the C902.

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Got a new toy in the mail

July 29th, 2008

The very good people at Sony Ericsson have sent me a C902 Cyber-shot mobile to have a play with as part of their product review program and I’ve got to say it’s a nifty little phone. Actually I don’t have to say anything about the phone at all (I’m not under any actual obligation to write about it or say anything positive but you should all know that they sent it to me). But the truth of the matter is that from first impressions I think that it is a cool phone.

I’m a sucker for bells and whistles.

I don’t apologise for that. You can read all about technical specs and ranges and stuff elsewhere I’m sure, I’ll get to them eventually! Obviously when I got it out of the box I didn’t read any instructions and started playing.

Problem number one, when I first get electrical consumer goods I rarely remove the plastic film over the screens etc so that it remains perfect for just those couple of minutes longer. My laptop still has its plastic on the top to protect its outer shell. So I didn’t remove the plastic on the screen on the phone.

Didn’t realise that it was covering the end of the phone also and couldn’t for the life of me work out how to slide out the camera (it has a slide out camera… sweet). A friend of mine at work also tried and couldn’t work it out, we didn’t want to break it. Embarresingly I discovered our own shortcomings and removed the plastic and the slid the camera out.

Then I discovered the games, there are games on my old Motorola Razr, well two and they weren’t very good. This has Need for Speed on it and you steer by turning the phone, not that unresponsive keypad, by turning the phone. Very cool. One of the other games is the classic Solitaire.

So what!? I hear you ask. A phone is a phone!

Let me tell you, nothing makes me happier than having a game like Solitaire whilst waiting for my wife at the fitting rooms at Myer.

I’ll write more about the phone as I play with it, I’m hoping to make use of the 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus!

Did I mention I’m a sucker for gadgets?

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Blogging from the iPhone

July 26th, 2008

Well it’s very cool I’m writing this post on the move, at breakfast actually. I’m using the new Wordpress app for the iphone which I am more than happy with.

I figured that for mobile blogging, then twitter was going to be it. But this app is pretty cool especially since I’m getting used to the little keyboard (though I’m still only a one finger typist - two thumbs are the equivalent to a touch typist).

The other neat feature is that I can take a photo and then semi-instantly post it on the blog, I don’t know if it shares the gps information with, I guess that’s something I’ll see when I get home.

Off to see the x files now after finishing breakfast!