Netphotography Journal

Just heard on the AngryGeek podcast that initially there was a report that average age of people on MySpace are above 35. Then they slowly got suspicious that a lot of the kids that register to fake their information, specially their age.

I have often noticed that people on Flickr try to challenge the default registration interface, by either not using some of the fields, or enter wrong information in them. They actually put some right information about themselves inside the “Profile” text box where database cannot easily collect specific stats about people’s age, gender, or whether they are single or in a relationship. People know they are giving away information to big brother, or some large incorporation, so by producing NOISE in creative ways they challenge the integrity of the data they are providing.

I’ve always thought that one way to beat the RFID technology embedded in many of the future products, is that people create and spread lots of fake RFID tags which broadcast false information, in that way the correct information will be lost in the NOISE. It would be the matter of time and very easy for some tech savy people to start a cult of fake RFID producers, and I’m sure many will follow.

Do you think those kind of information have any value for the Marketing Agents who monitor and collect these kind of information on Social Networking website, or tagged products?

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I love books. All the geeky books that I’ve ordered are here now, I don’t know which one’s to start reading first.

It is still a preview version and kindda buggy, but pretty cool. you can download it here:

I’ve been chatting with Elliot this evening, I like the new skype and I can finally put the iSight camera on my laptop in good use.

Rastin

PHP / Javascript / XHTML / CSS / SQL queries

and of course a chilled Banana

Someday I’ll have a team of programmers to implement my blueprints, until then I programm everything myself.

We had a small get together with all the techvibes forum posters, first at Rugby Club on West Broadway Vancouver. we had such a fun time together:

First time at Rugby Beach Club Grille ( West Broadway, Vancouver )There were about 10-12 of us, all people in the High Tech industry and we were told that we have to leave by 9:30, food was good yet no better than Earls or Cactus Club. Waiters were bossy and arrogant, Martini’s were watered down, and in the end we found surprises on our bills: items that we never had. Well we worked it out and guess what I didn’t tip!

BUT! I had a great time regardless being with all my friends.

I’m sure there are plenty of other restaurants and pubs in Vancouver who’d love to get business specially the well spenders from Vancouver’s Hight Tech Sector.

After 9:00 we went to the Frog and Firkin pub, and spend the rest of the evening there. I ordered a Shirley Temple for drink since I was the designated driver. Bad idea … ! I got laughed at; on the bill it said “Orange Juice” I guess the cute waitress was trying save my grace this time.

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Anna is IKEA’s online virtual shopping assistant. I tried asking her out on a date; here is our conversation:

Me: hi would you go out on a date with me?
Anna: I’m not real. I’m an Online Assistant designed to help you with your queries about IKEA, so I can’t go out. But thanks…

Me: C’mon! do you like chocolate, I want to bring you some chocolate.
Anna: The best thing to do is to get something to eat. In every IKEA store you can get a delicious snack in our restaurant.

Me: Was that a yes?
Anna: You’re trying to ask me a question, but I need more than that to give you a proper answer. Please try again.

Me: ahhhh …. women
Anna: Well, if it’s no, its no. I am still here to answer your questions.

She is so realistic in many ways!

This is a small snapshot of a larger UML blueprint. I have spent the last month implementing a customized user management system in Joomla 1.5 which will eventually be used in an eLearning application.

Software is using a Model View Control (MVC) architecture. The trick was using Joomla’s API to create Model classes in conjuction with Table classes. I don’t like duct-taping, I wanted a seamless integration of table classes with the Model class.
It finally worked and with the method I discovered, development process is going much faster based on a consistent pattern.

Every Table class contains the following main functions:

• bind
• get
• set
• load
• store
• delete

Every Model class also contains the same set of functions. Table Objects are aggregated in a Model class. A table class contains basic operations of a specific table in the database. A Model class contains operations needed to be done on a group of tables.
Doing a simple design usually takes more time but the results are rewarding.

Do I make any Sense?