Well these are definitely not killers, but still.. :)
It's already been 3 weeks of cloudy weather/rain weather on weekends, so I didn't have a chance to actually go out and spend some time with camera! Doh!
Anyway… here are some pics.
yeah yeah everything comes to Japan years after it came to and already got forgotten by the rest of civilized world (except for Australia ;)
So I've been to the latest (and the last, it seems) Rambo today.
The movie is very-very good. To the point where I sort of didn't understand it was over when it was over - "huh? this can't be the end, right? we're only about 20 minutes into the movie!". Absolutely great action, Stallone looks fantastic in his sixties (definitely tons deadlier comparing to the earlier Rambos). The only weak thing about the movie is that it's too shirt :)
Oh.. and it was a really good idea I left my wife at home ;) The movie is definitely not targeted at the "weak sex" :)
I've been getting absolutely crazy and steadily increasing volumes of so called "Undelivered mail" spam to my main mailbox for last few months (1000+ mails a day) - even with SpamAssassin installed, and I really don't have time to search for email blocking solutions all day long (and the solution for this particular problem is pretty complicated afaik) - so yesterday I have decided to move all my email handling to Google Apps service, which offers handling your domain's email on Google's servers (so I can keep using my primary mike@//this-domain// addres like nothing happened)
The Google Apps offers email service just like gmail, and some other services I didn't need, as well. Google offers several options for the service, and the Basic version is free. I went with the Basic one, of course, as I'm absolutely fine with the features it offers. All I needed is large email box (and it's currently 6G+ on Google), IMAP access, and - most important - good spam filter (and this is the killer feature of Google's mail!)
The switch was very easy and took me may be about 15 minutes in all. I signed up for Google Apps for my domain, then went to my registrar's site and switched MX records (these records are responsible for telling the world which server handles your email) to Google ones (and left all other records as is, as I have no need for Google to host my web site). Then of course I have removed macdiggs.com from local domains list in sendmail (so that email from my co-worker who uses the same server to be delivered to the new location)
In a few hours, once DNS records propaged, I started getting all my email to Google.
And the result is absolutely fantastic! All that "undelivered/delivery error email" just automatically goes to spam folder (and is further automatically piped to the Trash folder via "is:spam" filter). All the unfiltered spam just suddenly disappeared from my mailbox. And this is very, very, very big stress relief. My mailbox is 99.9% spam-free again, after several annoying months..
Sure, there are some changes for worse, the biggest one being my email server becoming much slower to access than the dedicated one I have used until now, but I'm fine with the change, given positive outcome of the switch.
I received one hillarious (though I was thinking WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?? at the time I actually looked at it) piece of HTML coding today, from some "web designer" my company works with (not for long anymore hopefully)
We asked that guy to code 9 pages for us, a pretty simple pages, not Yahoo portal or anything, mind you. Here, have a look what kind of CSS I have received!
Now, have a look at line number and scroll position. This monster has over 7000 lines!! For 9 pages!! And it weights 132K!!
And! It took almost a week to get these pages coded. Well yeah it definintely takes time to produce that amount of junk :)
..and survived today!
I was pulling out headphones from my backpack while waiting for the train today, and suddenly dropped my iPod down on the concrete of the platform. I had a split-second thinking if I should look down or not (I heard a plenty of stories that Touches and iPhones have exactly zero limit of being dropped and still working after that) - however, my Touch was as good as new, no problems at all, when I took it from the ground and turned on! Not even a single scratch (though this is not a surprize as I am using the most excellent InvisibleShield protection). Actually, on second thought, it might be the InvisibleShield which actually saved my iTouch… Or I am just a lucky guy :)
Phew :)
My first SLR got delivered today!
I got myself a new Canon Kiss X2 (or 450D if you live in Europe). Well actually I had Kiss X2 already, but I handed the previous one to my father who wanted it so much (sure I got some money back, but it was partially a present, too).
So today, actually my second Kiss X2 got delivered. Though the first one was the standard one lense kit version (18-55mm), I decided to pay a little bit more money for the double lens kit version, so now I have 2 lenses - 18-55mm and 55-250mm in my posession :)
This thing screams! Well sure its my first SLR ever, and anything will probably scream comparing to my older Ixys 900IS compact. But I really like the build and the quality, and the controls, and features of my new camera.
And it is such a satisfaction to just hold it in my hands and make shots accompanied but the real shutter sound, now the pre-recorded one :)
I'm learning basics of semi-pro shooting (mostly learning videos), so hopefully sooner than later I'll be able to make some really nice shots (I suck at composition shots currently :)
So, back to the viewfinder!
