Photography & Personality

Photography is always a kind of story-telling and this story is always yours, your view and your experience.

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Imagine a photographer, who does very wild fashion photography. This person probably has a total different personality than a photographer of architecture! Can you figure out the desk of both people? The desk of the architectural photographer might be very orderly, everything has its own place there. The desk of the fashion guy? Might be a kind of “creative chaos”. What I want to say with this example: Your photography should fit perfect with your personality. And your personality can increase a lot with photography!

[Thomas Herbrich, The Light edisi XI 2008]

Kimi Raikkonen focuses on Lewis Hamilton at Langkawi

Three of my pictures are being used on other site.

1. Kimpossible
click here

2. Focus
click here

3. Connecting the top
click here

I don’t mind if anyone use my picture on their website as long as they follow these :

Interupsi

Chatting kadang terinterupsi oleh SMS. SMS kadang terinterupsi oleh telepon masuk. Telepon pun kadang terinterupsi oleh kehadiran orang lain.

Gimana dengan telepati?

ALT+F9

In the last three days I was preparing my paper for some conferences. I used Microsoft Word to type it, MathType to insert equation, EndNote to insert reference. Yesterday I was mistakenly doing something that made my work appear like this:

As you notice, it shows the codes. I thought the error was coming from MathType and EndNote until I found that it also showed the code of email address hyperlink (first line). The error must be coming from the Microsoft Word. So from Microsoft Word help I searched with keyword “field code” and I found there is an option to switch between field codes and results by pressing ALT+F9. It returned my work appeared like this:

Tennis and Squash

The swimming pool at campus was under maintenance until 2nd of January (actually until now the pool is still empty). I have to find other way to let my body active. So, last Sunday I played tennis after for more than 3 months never play it. I was enjoying that game even though my arm became strain after that. I asked my friend to play again in the following day. I decided to practice my tennis skill this week, before new semester started.

On Wednesday night I went to tennis court with my friend, hoped that we can play until late night. Unfortunately, we found that the light control room was locked so we couldn’t turn on the light. Next to control room is squash court. What we did next was playing squash using racket and tennis ball. I was enjoying that game and I felt that my tennis skill was improved. I could control both the movement and speed of the ball. I was sure that I can play tennis better.

Yesterday I went to court and found a couple play tennis very well. Realizing that my skill wasn’t as good as them, I played quite far from them. After several minutes, I couldn’t swing my racket as good as that night. The movement of the ball was correct, but it had less speed. It seemed that my exercise that night was useless. I have to learn how to play tennis from the very basic, how to grip the racket, how to swing it, etc.

Cruzer

I accidentally have 2 Gb thumbdrive with U3 feature now. What is U3 actually? This feature allows us to install software on our thumbdrive. The software that can be installed should be in U3 format. So, we just plug our thumbdrive on any computer and launch any software from it. It’s like carrying our ‘personal computer’ on thumbdrive. Interested about this? Visit U3 website.

Sorry for Sony

I have had my new Sony DSC-H2 camera for about two weeks. However, I haven’t equipped it with memory card. My camera supports Memory Stick Duo and Memory Stick PRO Duo, it doesn’t support Memory Stick and Memory Stick PRO. If you want to know more about this memory card, just visit http://www.memorystick.com.

So, two days ago I went to electronic plaza to get this memory card. At that time I didn’t bring my camera. I bought 1 Gb Memory Stick PRO Duo manufactured by SanDisk. The seller said that this SanDisk product compatible with all Sony products and the price also cheaper.

When I inserted this card and turned my camera on, there was error message said “Reinsert memory card”. I turned off my camera, reinsert the card and then turned on the camera. But I still had the same problem. I remembered that my friend has Sony Ericsson mobile phone. As other Sony product, his mobile phone also uses Memory Stick as storage media. His memory card was Sony 64 Mb Memory Stick Duo. I inserted his card to my camera and my card to his phone and hey…… both were worked well. I guessed that Sony DSC-H2 only support Sony product. I thought like this since I found that Sony battery charger also supports Sony battery only.

So, yesterday I complained to the shop regarding this matter. They tried several times using different card from SanDisk, even they tried 512 Mb Memory Stick PRO Duo. But, the error message still appears. At the end, they admitted that SanDisk memory card doesn’t compatible with my camera. Of course I wanted my money back but I can’t. I had two options, buy this card or buy another good which has the same price. I chose the latter options. Finally, I bought SanDisk Cruzer Micro. It’s 2 Gb thumbdrive with U3 feature. So, with the same amount of money I get storage media which has two times capacity but can’t be used for my camera.

Bump key

Have you ever watched Skeleton Key movie? In that movie there is one key made of skeleton which could open any door in one house. Is it possible? Sure, it is possible. Type in your search engine “bump key” and you’ll find out that how unsecured our house is. Here are some interesting links:

1. White paper about bump key

2. Introduction to Lockpicking & Key Bumping

3. Bump keying (with animation)

4. MIT Guide to Lock Picking

5. Should Bump Keys be Illegal?

6. Bump Key forum

‘lab2double’ in Matlab

I posted my problem with ‘srgb2lab’ to MATLAB Newsgroup. Two guys from Mathwork, Jeremy Barry and Steve Eddins replied that. Here are their answers:

I followed their suggestion by doing this.

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rgb2lab = makecform(‘srgb2lab’);

lab = applycform(rgb,rgb2lab);

lab_double = lab2double(lab);

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Here are the results:

Yup, this is correct. I don’t need to write my own function.

Biathlon

This morning I was jogging for 800 m and swimming for 650 m. Next week I am planning of cycling before jogging and swimming.