Netphotography Journal

Tuesday Morning, it is cloudy and rainy outside, there is French Jazz Music on CBC radio. I am craving something sweet for Breakfast.

How about starting a new positive day; so here are the top 5 reasons that I am thankful about this morning ( and it’s not even thanksgiving ).

I am thankful that:
1. My Family ( Mom, Dad, Younger Brother, Aristocrat the house cat ) are alive, healthy and living a good life.
2. I am alive and healthy myself.
3. I have a job that I really enjoy, projects that are exciting, and colleagues that are kind, appreciative and understanding. Wonderful people such as ( Mike SK, Carl F, John K, Bernie V, Sarah N, and Trish N )
4. For having friends, being capable of keeping them, and making more of them
5. I still get to work hard and party hard too

Wow! I feel like I just won the Oscar

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We have launched a new Calendar Creation Site in Premier. It belongs to Premier Home and Family department which is now being directed by my ex-boss ( now good friend ) Mr. John Koetsier.

Basically you can sign in to this website, upload bunch of high quality pictures, edit them, crop them and for only 25.00 $ have a beautiful shiny calendar made for yourself.

The web app is written by my colleague Mike Skovgaard a self taught Perl/Mason master in our department. Website also uses some snazzy AJAX technology to operate. it is really cool and simple to use and for that price you would be out of your mind not giving it a try

CANADA - Family Matters Calendar
USA - Family Matters Calendar

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I have found this gorgeous Tapas Bar/ Restaurant on Robson street. They have excellent Chocolate Martini and a list of exotic Japanese cuisine, that I cannot even remember their names. Prices are very reasonable, wonderful friendly staff, place has a very modern espresso finished interior with beautiful urban Asian style furniture. Food is tasty and decorated beautifully. Place is packed with people; it is a great atmosphere to get together with friends or have a date with that special person.

So if you want to see the waitresses with their sleek clean hair cuts, modern natural, yet colorful makeups wearing black capri pants and flip flops … you really want to check this place out.

You know what! … I’ve learned something new about myself. I have this thing for Japanese girls, they are true city girls and know how to take care of their look. Besides they seem to be one of the most delicate works of Nature.

address: 1479 Robson Street, Vancouver, BC, V6G 1C1
phone: 604.689.4272
url: www.HapaIzakaya.com

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My favorite browser Firefox has finally reached it’s target. The original target was 10% by the end of 2005. I was suprized that some major portals such as ZD Net and News.com didn’t even bother mentioning it.

Firefox is currently standing at 11.5% global Market share, and holds 14.5% market share in US. Internet Explorer is now down to 85.5% globally and 80.7% in US.

It would be interesting to see these numbers at the end of 2006.

Firefox is an Open Source browser with superior features compare to Internet Explorer. The ones that I care about are:

1. Better compliancy with W3C standards: Meaning that websites render much better and faster in Firefox. Internet Explorer has so many CSS, and javascript bugs, if it wasn’t because of IE we could have had AJAX long time ago.

2. Better Security: yes despite some recent security reports firefox is still far more secure than Internet Explorer.

3. Ad Blocker
4. Tabbed Browsing
5. ability to add or remove extensions

News Links:
DesktopLinux.com - Firefox releases 2nd 1.5 beta, tops 11% marketshare
Information Week
ZD Net UK
SlashDot.org

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“Wealthy people watch TV in another room, poor people watch TV in the dining room” Peter Legge - The Runway of Life.

Where do I fit in this picture? I’ve decided not to own a TV at all.

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For those who think meaning of life is eating Chocolate in bed, I got the same sensation watching these online videos. You’ll enjoy it too if you love Physics and Science as much as I do. Although I wouldn’t say no to the chocolate in Bed either

Enjoy,

Watch The Elegant Universe (3 hours)

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In order to learn something new, you volunteer yourself to be humiliated in public, so embarrassment is the constant factor and a part of the process. You are gonna make a lot of mistakes, but true winners stay in and continue dancing.

Once you pass that stage and you master the moves, they become a part of who you are, a part of your character, that’s when you start enjoying the dance, so the fun factor comes in.

You are willing to help other beginners to learn, specially if they are not quitters. Vanity is not an option, because you have experienced the pain of making mistakes and looking funny in public, so be humble about your skills. No matter how good you are there is always somebody better than you out there. However it is perfectly OK to be proud of your accomplishments no matter how small they are.

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