Cuatomize my install :)

- Looks like yahoo forgot to do a spell check ?, Came across this dialogue in one of the messenger upgrades

- a QA Slip ?

Google Calendar, still in its teens

A Month ago i added a calendar post for 14th November 2006 with a reminder set for 13th November. 13th passed, no reminder. 14th arrived, all of a sudden i remembered it (good for me), out of curosity i went back and checked my google calendar, couldn't see any event at all. Thinking that i must have forgotten to add the event i added another event and all of a sudden the event for 14th appeared like the hindu gods

bottom line - Google calendar, you still are in your teens, long way to go before you replace the Outlook Calendar

Macro Photos with S2 IS

Full credit to http://www.flickr.com/photos/blipfish/
Ah... I've been at this point - it's just a process of learning a new camera, so have no fear - you'll be photographing the socks on a flea before long. ;)

I suggest opening the LCD viewer rather than the smaller viewfinder as there's information onscreen you'll want to look at while doing this.

1. Dial in to "M" (Manual mode)
2. Press the 'flower' button on the front, side ring of the lens housing.
3. Press and HOLD this button a second time... gets you from Macro mode into Super Macro mode - your display will show it go from an icon of a flower at the top to a flower with an "S" in it. You're now in Super Macro Mode.

It's at this point the fact that you're in Manual mode will probably show up... your scene might look way dark or too bright. So, use the 4-way thumb button (the one with the up/down/left/right arrows on the right side) to adjust the speed and exposure settings until you can finally see something in the viewfinder decent.

Now, let's say you're photographing an ink pen or pencil on your desk...

There's no doubt your camera needs to be right down there with it... your lens (now that it's fully extended since you turned the power on) can even touch the pencil... it can be THAT close.

Just turn the camera a little sideways now to begin looking down the length of the pencil. Notice how about an inch or so away from the lens starts to come into focus?

For a basic start - just press and hold the shutter button until you see the green box and beep - this tells you you've gotten a good focus.

If you were taking advantage of pushing the MANUAL FOCUS button and using the 4-way dial to focus (using that fuzzy square)... don't be surprised if all you have to do is dial it up to 1. This is super-macro, after all... it's close. You'll be able to tell this because a 'meter' scale appears on the rigth side of the display. It rises and falls as you adjust with the 4-way button.

Note: The way I found out that the S2IS has such a good SM mode is I had dust on the front lens and it was interfering with my focusing. I was actually focused on the dust on the glass itself! So, make sure your lens is clean.

This is basically what I did for the dollar bill shot that I took (linked above).

Manually Focusing would have given me more options as to WHERE the focal point would have landed on that bill (further away from the green emblem, closer than the emblem, etc.). So, you have a little latitude if you wish to use the Manual Focus feature as well.

Let me know if this gets you closer or not? It's a fun (and very nice) feature and there's no reason you won't be using it right away. :)

Girls in UK

Girls in UK doing bhangra. Pretty Good !!

Life's true meaning

It starts with...

One thing,
I don't know why,
It doesn't even matter how hard you try,
Keep that in mind,
I designed this rhyme,
To explain in due time,
All I know…
Time is a valuable thing,
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings,
Watch it count down 'till the end of the day,
The clock ticks life away,
It's so unreal…
You didn't look out below,
Watch the time go right out the window,
Tryin to hold on,
Didn't even know, I wasted it all just to
watch you go…
I kept everything inside,
And even though I tried,
It all fell apart,
What it meant to me
Will eventually be,
A memory of a time when

I tried so hard and got so far,
But in the end,
It doesn't even matter,
I had to fall,
To lose it all,
But in the end,
It doesn't even matter,

One thing, I don't know why,
It doesn't even matter how hard you try,
Keep that in mind,
I designed this rhyme,
To remind myself how
I tried so hard...
In spite of the way you were mocking me,
Acting like I was part of your property,
Remembering all the times you fought with me,
I'm surprised it
got so(far)…
Things aren't the way they were before,
You wouldn't even recognize me anymore,
Not that you knew me back then,
But it all comes back to me,
In the end...
You kept everything inside,
And even though I tried it all fell apart,
What it meant to me
Will eventually,
Be a memory of a time when

I tried so hard and got so far,
But in the end,
It doesn't even matter,
I had to fall,
To lose it all,
But in the end,
It doesn't even matter,

I've put my trust in you,
Pushed as far as I can go,
For all this,
There's only one thing you should know,

I've put my trust in you,
Pushed as far as I can go,
For all this,
There's only one thing you should know...

I tried so hard and got so far,
but in the end,
it doesn't even matter,
I had to fall,
to lose it all,
but in the end,
it doesn't even matter

My new passion

My new passion
Originally uploaded by Khalsa.

Finally after 3 months of long wait with endless driving of rentals, I finally got my sedan baby, my (Vijaya please read Our:)) my Passat GLS 18.T. Having driven Porsche Porsche 911 Turbo on NFS tracks, this in the first tim I am driving a real turbo on the roads of Alpharetta and Charlotte and truly its awesome. One of my criterias in selecting the car was it should be quiet to quite an extent especially on freeways. Passat definitely is better than Accord and Camry if not Lexus :)