So apparently, and not uncommonly, I shot this image at ISO1600 in broad daylight, albeit there was some cloud cover and I was in the botanical gardens. But 1/400 at ISO1600? Who shoots like that? I’m sure if I’d set it 1/200 and ISO400, I’d have got something quite useable and noticeably less grainy! Or…
Anyone else hate using these auto-categories. I tried to ‘teach’ Gmail what to not categorize. But it is a stupid tool. Really.
You’ve experienced it: turn on your pc and boom update city. AV updates, System updates, browser updates, Flash updates, plugin updates, software updates,… And you only wanted to write a quick email or blog post about top 10 diet pills. Really. Engineering people, come on! We don’t turn on our PCs because we want to…
For those of you who remember my car-accident in Taiwan a few years ago, I would totally recommend taking out decent auto insurance. After driving nearly 45K km in the past years, I can testify to the necessity of having insurance, for much more than basic cover. For example, if you scratch your paintwork in…
For those of you who always fret about paying your discount auto insurance, take a look at this picture. This is a salutary reminder of why we have auto insurance. To pay for accidents like this one that happened to me a few years ago, when my precious was practically brand new, and I didn’t…