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A totally random stream.... As random as my varied interests....
I have always been into photography as a hobby. Ever since my dad bought me a point and shoot in high school.
I remember buying these phtography guides from CNA, every month you would get a new one that you could slot into a file (The gifts were awesome too).
It's always just been a hobby that i do when i have the time. Other then a brief stint where my Black & White prints were displayed at a Gallery in Rosebank it was never professional.
They were displayed for an entire month, selling at the whopping price of..
R 1,500 (7 years ago).
I never sold a single print and had to give them away. Some are prominently displayed up to this day....
In peoples bathrooms
(Yes, it's that crappy. Pun quite intended)
There is one place your art will always be appreciated:
In your own home
Your wife wouldn't tell you it sucks, nor would guests for fear of being impolite. I finally decided to get a few stretched canvas prints. All pictures are original, and no fiddling done in Photoshop etc.
Check them out below with original shots. Kudo's if you guess where the black and white ones were taken. The colour shots are easy to figure out.
* If you are visiting me, just nod and smile and pretend that you like them, even if you think a 5 year old could do better. It's the polite thing to do :)
Currently on an electronics course at house4hack.
Good to play around with electronics after all these years. Last time I looked at resistors, gates and circuits was when I did pc engineering in 98.A little while back i posted about kisses for kindess by @zakeeya , the funding goal was reached, equipment purchased and the kitchen has been kitted out. They are ready to start classes.
Came across a tweet by gibs_sa a little while back, a new service they are offering:
neXt – your online career mentor neXt from GIBS is an online career mentor designed to guide you in assessing, reflecting on and planning the next steps in your management career. |
The comprehensive web-based tool helps you determine where you are in your career, and what steps you need to take to achieve your goals. Simple to complete, the assessments are immensely useful in planning and achieving your career objectives. Use them to assess yourself, review your options and take control of your career. Simply log in to neXt and provide the information requested about yourself while selecting your own password to ensure confidentiality. Then select from the following set of exercises to help you plan your next step:"
Sounds Interesting enough, thought i would check it out.
I attempted to register and got this.
The real kicker is the website is written in ".asp", the last time ASP was used for any serious web development was when i was in High School (A very long time ago), yes ASP is about 14 years old.
I would love to know what was the cost of this development, and who was the company that did it.
There is a meme going around, i am sure you have seen the pics on facebook/twitter
"What people think i do/Actually do"
Here is the latest about living in Jozi from the guys at ZuluTunes
From the website:
6.002x (Circuits and Electronics) is designed to serve as a first course in an undergraduate electrical engineering (EE), or electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) curriculum. At MIT, 6.002 is in the core of department subjects required for all undergraduates in EECS.
The course introduces engineering in the context of the lumped circuit abstraction. Topics covered include: resistive elements and networks; independent and dependent sources; switches and MOS transistors; digital abstraction; amplifiers; energy storage elements; dynamics of first- and second-order networks; design in the time and frequency domains; and analog and digital circuits and applications. Design and lab exercises are also significant components of the course. You should expect to spend approximately 10 hours per week on the course.
If you are not sold yet, check out the video below:
Building great stuff on the interwebs, mobile consultant, (Ex) runner, lover of wife, denim and movies.
