CompSci Grad Not your typical graduate

I've decided finally that I will in fact get a Macbook Pro. Whenever I have the opportunity, I play with a Macbook pro. The more I use them, the more I think Windows is holding me back. I'm not a big gamer, so it's not like I'll be missing out on playing video games.

My big things are photography and video editing (I hope). I know that many serious photographers use Mac's religiously, and swear by them. With parallels and bootcamp, I can always throw windows on it.

But the biggest reason why I decided to go with the Macbook pro was the iPhone app development. For those of you following my twitter, I decided my focus will be on mobile device application development. The Apple iPhone comes to Canada in July, and I'd like to be on the cutting edge of application development.

What about Google Android and RIM's Blackberry? Well Android can be developed on Mac's or PC's. Blackberry Java Development Environment (JDE) is only a Windows thing (based on my readings, correct me if I'm wrong).

I was going through a real slump with my photography.. I couldn't get any contrast in my shots, and nothing exciting was happening my photostream. I remember when I first went to the digital imaging show, and sat behind these 2 people talking. They kept going on and on about how they never edit images in photoshop, and how using photoshop was considered 'cheating'.

After that, I kind of felt bad about editing photos in photoshop, so I would upload photos directly from the camera to flickr. I realized that only some of my shots were coming out nicely exposed. Specifically, the shots that I took at the auto show seemed to be exposed very nicely. I turns out that light is my biggest foe when it comes to shotting in non-studio areas.

The lighting at the autoshow was actually really nice. I could shoot in jpeg and have the images exposed really well. But when I'm outside doing some urban abstracts, I almost always have to shoot in RAW and edit it in photoshop.

Hahahah. I thought this was so funny.

I did see the survey about Hillary's supporters refusing to vote for Obama if she didn't get the nomination, or even voting for McCain. I didn't understand why until I saw this video.

I recently wrapped up 2 things this week. Sort of..

I did a small internal website for a company my friend works for. It basically maintains files for the company. People can upload documents and place them in categories. Users can change the documents and upload them again. The problem the website solved was that before, people who wanted to change the documents had to send that document to the IT guy, and he uploads the document to the server, changes the link manually, and then told the person when it was done. Now there is no need for all that. I’ll post screen shots and stuff soon in the portfolio.

The next thing is my thesis… that’s why I said sort of. Basically I’ve finished my first set of reviews. I realized I basically have everything I need in the document, but it just needs a few more reviews to make sure everything I have is spot on. It feels good to be sort of done. That was closer to being done than I was 2 weeks ago.

I bought a pretty bitchin’ tripod at the photography show. I’ve been using it once in a while for outdoor shots. Not so much macro stuff. I’ll get back to that soon I hope.