I’m slowly going through my backlog of photos and so I’ve got another album up in my gallery. This one contains photos that Joyce and I took when we were at Zuo (Ethan) and Mayz’s engagement party.
Congrats to both of them on getting engaged and my prayers are with them both as they prepare for their wedding, but most of all to be a faithful husband/wife.
I’ve finally gotten off my dilatory derriere and posted up photos from KYLC up here.
Recently, I’ve been getting quite a bit of activity on the Multiply network. A few years ago, we just simply used this as a way for us people at work to share photos with one another without any storage limitations. Now, it looks like people are actually using it to blog, share photos, share contacts, etc.
So, I figured I might as well update it a bit by crossposting to both my own site as well as my Multiply site.
Readers from my droiby.net site, say “Hello!” to all who may read my Multiply blog.
Readers from my Multiply blog, give my droiby.net site readers a big wave. *waves*
Note that I don’t plan to update my Multiply photo gallery, since I already have one up here. My Multiply blog section should be synchronised to my droiby.net blog (as of this post onwards).
Anyway, more stuff to come later.
I took a whole bunch of photos at the muso’s social today and afterwards let some people play with my camera. When I got home to download the photos, I found out that somebody had wiped the card! Whether it was by accident or whatever, I’ve now lost a good few hundred megs of photos.
Other than having a great sense of loss, this pisses me off immensely.
So much for being nice… think about this next time you let someone play with your camera…
So, today is February 14th – better known as Valentine’s Day. A day where all non-single guys are expected to start digging into their wallets to please all of those non-single girls out there without being made to look cheap.
It’s kinda interesting how this works. I’ve been talking about this whole sham to a female colleague of mine and she says how even though she told her husband not to buy anything for her, she still expects something from him! I talked to Joyce about it and she (somewhat) agrees! Such are the mysteries of the females of our species.
My previous post dealt pretty much mostly with SLR cameras – in particular, those of the Canon EOS variety. I figured that not everybody is willing to go into this sort of equipment, and so I’ve updated the Resource page with some tips for the next time you go shopping around for a camera.
For some strange reason, the fact that I work for CiSRA – an Australian R&D company for Canon, apparently makes me an expert in all of Canon products as well as all of the products from our competitors. I’m then expected to provide a detailed summary of what’s good and bad about anything that Canon produces (in particular cameras) at a moment’s notice.
Whilst I’m somewhat amused at how much Canon product knowledge people assume I have, I must state that working for Canon does not mean that I know everything about our products. I’m not exactly in the sales/marketing department you know… I do research for them.
That said, I do have an interest in photography, and one of the perks working here is that I get to play with lots of cameras – in particular, the EOS digital SLR cameras. I often get asked questions about Canon SLR cameras and so it might be easier for me to just list some of the more common ones here along with my responses. Of course, this information can be found on the internet if people can be bothered looking for it, but here they are for convenience.
If there are some other things you want to know about EOS stuff, and can’t be bothered doing your own research, drop the question(s) in the comments section.
Recently, I’ve been involved in some discussions regarding Christians staying at work in secular jobs and those who leave to undertake full-time paid ministry. We were also talking about this today at the Christian group at my work, since we had two people (one of whom is Stephen Farrar, for those of you who went to Ruse) leave at the end of last year to undertake “religious vocations”.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with Victor J. Stenger, he’s an emeritus professor of physics and astronomy who has written a number of books on topics including religion, philosophy and science.
Anyway, I stumbled upon a page of his containing a summary of arguments that claim to prove (and by this, I mean hand-wavy arguments with flawed logic) that God does not exist. For those of you who have a background in formal logic (be it from mathematics, computer science, whatever), the incoherence is blatantly obvious. Whilst he claims that ‘these are not meant to be formal, deductive arguments, but rather arguments “beyond a reasonable doubt”‘, they are far from being rigorous enough to be convincing. There also seems to be very little actual science considering that it’s about “How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist”.
Now, those “arguments” presented are for a “God” from his own understanding and interpretation of what a “God” should be. Unfortunately for him, this understanding is different to the God from Christian theology. To me, it seems like what he has done is defined “God” and itemized some attributes and argued that those attributes cannot mutually agree/exist with each other.
On the other hand, to a Christian, God is simply the entity having all of the characteristics that the Bible attributes to him. These characteristics in themselves are locally consistent and as such, any scientific approach to an understanding of God or a debate to whether God exists or not is moot and pointless.
Of course, it makes for rather amusing philosophical arguments and omnipotence paradoxes, but I’ll leave that discussion for another time…
Not picking up mobile phones and letting them ring out is something that is guaranteed to annoy the %$#@ out of me. This is especially so if it’s somewhat urgent.
Some people (funnily enough, all are female…) are consistently away from their mobile phones. Pretty much, whenever I try ringing these people up, more often than not I’ll just be at the other end of the connection ringtone and nobody will pick it up. I can try again a few minutes/hours/whatever later, and they still won’t pick up. The only time that they happen to check the mobile phone is if they want to make a call themselves and realise there are all these missed calls on their phone.
Note: a mobile phone can be used to receive calls as well as make them too!
If you’re the type of person that is consistently away from your mobile phone, whether it’s because you leave it on silent and then forget about it, or you’re just physically away from your phone, do us all a favour – turn it off. Having it on and then not picking it up makes us think that you might be there, and if we just wait one more ring, you may actually pick up. It also gives us the somewhat false impression that you’re actually contactable. You’ll also save yourself money from having to call back the dozen or so people who tried to contact you whilst you were blissfully unaware that your phone’s been ringing somewhere else.
Personally, the only time I use silent is if I have the phone on me and I’m in a place where I can’t be interrupted. This may be at church, or in a meeting, you get the idea. I’ll let it ring a few times, and then reject the call. This will at least tell the other person that I’ve acknowledged the call, but I can’t take it at the moment. If I’m at home, I often switch my mobile off. Those who need to contact me at home know how. If I’m at work, I leave the mobile on silent but vibrate so I don’t end up disturbing other people around me. If I’m not at home nor at work, then the mobile is with me at all times on loud/silent depending on the situation.
Is this correct mobile phone etiquette? No idea, but I welcome any comments.