Wombat

My Photos featured in BMWUSA.com

In August, received an invitation through flickr.com to submit some of my photos to bmwusadotcom for used in their interactive showcase on bmwusa.com as they get ready to launch the new 2009 3 Series Sedan. Very happy and honored that a few of my photos made it.

Its basically a compilation of what BMW as a company built, vs what we as the consumer moded and built.

'Ubiquity' from Mozilla Labs

Come across this source from a blog (http://www.kungpowthinking.com/) I read today.

Very interesting thoughts and prototype demo by Aza Raskin, Mozilla Labs

The overall goals of Ubiquity are to explore how best to:

• Empower users to control the web browser with language-based instructions. (With search, users type what they want to find. With Ubiquity, they type what they want to do.)
• Enable on-demand, user-generated mashups with existing open Web APIs. (In other words, allowing everyone–not just Web developers–to remix the Web so it fits their needs, no matter what page they are on, or what they are doing.)
  
• Use Trust networks and social constructs to balance security with ease of extensibility.
  
• Extend the browser functionality easily.

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

more @ http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/

The demo video seem promising to address the project goals, but I doubt its ease to learn. Maybe its like using google search edit box on the firefox browse. It empower you many hidden calls that its beyond just serach.

My 1st impression is that users need to remember lots of shortcut, command line and many typing to activate and complete tasks. It felt like an expanded 'Run..' control under 'Start' pop up menu that continue by running>edit>complete.

But I'm very impressed with the experience empowered to the user to be able to complete what they wish to do with simple command lines on Ubiquity.

Signature in O'Learys Sports Bar & Grill

Park SHOT!

This morning while parked and waited to pass ERP after 9am along ECP (to city) @ East Coast Car Park B1, East Coast Park Service Road. I suddenly got the mood to take some random quick shots using NOKIA N81 8GB to test out that 2 megapixel camera feature. Out of my surprised, it turns out not bad. Here are 2 most interesting shots that I really liked cos it show off the fierce front of E90, shot over hang of our car and that 'nong nong' front bonnet that was designed to tuck in that award wining in-line 6 engine. The photos its colour corrected with Adobe Photoshop CS3 but with no cropping nor sharpen during the correcting process. The photo was originally taken in black n white too.

I liked this most, the angle and frame are just towards my liking.

This shot show off more of the 'nong nong' front bonnet of BMW's car (too bad MINE isn't 6pot inside :( sigh!)