Santa Barbara week-end

Posted on Dec 30 2007, 23:23 in All over the world category
Tags:  Bright   Mark   family-album   photographs   santa-barbara   travel   views   x-mas 

On the weekend of 21-23 of December 2007 we made our first all-family trip to Santa Barbara. We enjoyed Santa Barbara Mission, botanic gardens, the wharf and the views of the State street decorated for Christmas.

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Don't think, just shoot!

Posted on Dec 15 2007, 21:50 in All over the world category
Tags:  mobilography   photographs 

The digital era has brought a major advantage of interactivity - not only you can take a momentary digital shot (called "mobilographs" or "mobilograms"), but also share it instantly with the entire planet Earth's population. Read on

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Santa Clara City Library

Posted on Nov 26 2007, 23:23 in All over the world category
Tags:  photographs   santa-clara   silicon-valley   views 

A few photographs of Santa Clara City Library at night time.

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Driving around

Posted on Oct 26 2007, 00:05 in All over the world category
Tags:  photographs   santa-clara   silicon-valley 

A couple new photographs in the "Retro cars" gallery

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Digital smiley turns 25 today

Posted on Sep 19 2007, 20:20 in All over the world category

According to the psycology experts, "smiley face and other emotional icons, known as emoticons, have given people a concise way in e-mail and other electronic messages of expressing sentiments that otherwise would be difficult to detect."

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Apple loyalty and Organic living

Posted on Sep 17 2007, 09:17 in All over the world category
Tags:  Apple 

Several articles I thought would be worth sharing:

• Organic Food Not Proven to Be Healthier - I knew that, I knew that! Even super-duper-organic strawberries and apples never tasted as good as those grown in my parents' garden. Having no dangerous additives doesn't make them any richer in vitamins, taste and smell than non-organic produce.
• 12 Effective Strategies Apple Uses to Create Loyal Customers - this article at InsideCRM is a good overview of Apple's marketing techniques (at least for a non-business type of person like myself).
• And to make it even for the honey-soaked wording of the previous article, here's another one from International Herald Tribune: Did Apple muff Mac's big chance? written by Randall Stross, a professor of business at SJSU.

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Guru Awards 2007 winners' gallery

Posted on Sep 09 2007, 09:09 in All over the world category
Tags:  design   illustrations 

This year's Guru Awards winners' gallery. Guru Awards is a special Photoshop competition held exclusively for the attendees of the Photoshop World conference.

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Pride not prejudice

Posted on Aug 27 2007, 08:27 in All over the world category
Tags:  photographs 

Better late than never! An album of photographs taken on June 24, 2007 at San Francisco Pride Parade is finally here. The theme of this year's celebration was "Pride Not Prejudice".

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When sysadmins ruled the World

Posted on Jun 21 2007, 21:06 in All over the world category

This Sci-Fi novel by Cory Doctorow has become the winner of the 2007 Locus Award for best novelette. The story is now unlocked on Jim Bean's Universe website and is available for everybody to read.

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Modern screets, retro cars

Posted on Mar 28 2007, 13:28 in All over the world category
Tags:  photographs   silicon-valley 

I am starting a new photographic gallery on my site, which features fancy retro cars running the streets of today all over the world.

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