Current location:	Sietch Creare
Current mood:	nerdy
Current music:	Ben Folds Five - Your Redneck Past
Entry tags:	birthdays, comics, firefox, nanowrimo, photography, techie, work, writing

00784: Technical Musings
A very Happy Birthday to my longtime online friend Ben! Happy, Happy, Happy Birthday Bendix! I should probably make you a photo with me holding a sign or something, LOL

Current NaNoWriMo Word Count: 18,389 words. I'm way behind my daily goal - I'm supposed to be past the 20,000 word count by now - but I'm going to keep pushing forward and trying to get to that level! You hear me NaNoWriMo? I'm gonna write like a mad man...once my work week officially ends. =P

Work was still pretty hectic, but manageable. I had back-to-back meetings today plus my boss Carlo came back from a three-day leave. Thus that meant a lot of updates, issues to address now that he was back and more of my usual work given the two titles that I hold now. Yeah, it's a busy work life, but I'm still enjoying the sense of challenge and I'm liking how things are flowing for the most part. This doesn't mean that things are entirely without unfortunate incident - but then it's the annoying fires that make life interesting, eh?

I got home from work rather tired, so I spent some time tinkering with Mozilla Labs Jetpack, which is an experimental way to implement simple HTML / CSS apps within Firefox. They're more lightweight than full-fledged extensions and they don't require you to restart Firefox to work after installing - you just need to refresh the page. It's VERY early in the product's development and so far I can't get all of the apps that interested me to work. However there are others which are working like a breeze plus they're really fast and not so heavy in terms of memory load. This is definitely an area I hope Mozilla invests more research time in - it's a quick, effective way of implementing applications without the potential bloat and conflicts we get from extensions.

I'm starting to get back into photography using Tobie's resurrected Pentax Optio M40. Like before, most of my pictures tend to be of food and I'm getting some pretty decent shots. I'm still hoping to get myself a better camera before the end of the year but that'll mean burning the credit card soon enough, hehe. My main goal is to get a mega zoom bridge camera since (1) I want a really powerful optical lens for close-up macro shots, (2) I don't like twiddling around too much with DSLR settings, (3) I believe in digital photo editing, and (4) I want the camera to be able to take decent video. I could go hunting down the same model camera as Shane was before, which was a Sony CyberShot H50. I loved that camera when I got it in LA, but it got stolen around this time last year. There's already an upgraded model called the Sony CyberShot HX1 and I'm still on the fence if I like this new version or if I want to save some money and get the H50.

Decisions, decisions! At least I'm trying to stick to my original plan of getting a new camera before I opt to get a netbook, which I admit is more of a novelty / luxury purchase. So sue me! I will get that Asus EEE 1005HA!

I love Pig! More so Duck!