April 2012 – Page 4 – Maxson Central

06/04/201218/01/2019

Panorama, ICS, and My Phone

I used to take TONS of panoramas. So many that I had people think I was a geek, it was stupid, etc…. I thought I turned out some really neat pictures. Then, I got a new camera. It wasn’t so easy. Then I started using my phone. It got less easy. Well, with the ICS Android upgrade, the camera application includes a panno feature. Tried it out today and this picture is the result:

IMHO, the quality isn’t the greatest. You take the picture in this weird video capture mode where you just rotate the camera and it captures the image. Sure, it works, but you can g better quality images by rotating the camera yourself and then stitching the images manually.

[Update 2012-04-10 07:16:28] After using ICS for 5 days, I wrote more about what I think

05/04/2012

Lydia, Spring, and Flowers

Lydia is currently on a 2 week term break holiday from school. Cyndi has been going to workout in the day. Isaac can go to the creche (aka nursery) but Lydia is too old. I told Cyndi that I could watch her so she could go. We went to town, had yum yums, coffee, then went to the park for her to play. Here’s a picture of her I took as we were leaving. Why this one? She said it was her favorite (of the 3 I took)

05/04/2012

See the red flag? What does it mean?

I saw this red flag flying at one of the allotment spaces on my way to work today. Does anyone know what it means? Does it mean anything?

Oh, if you click the picture, you can see the original size image….if you would like.

05/04/201218/01/2019

w00t!

Looked at my phone this morning and saw the notice saying it had, finally, downloaded the ICS (android 4.04, ice cream sandwich) upgrade. w00t!

I installed it once I got to work. It looks awesome! I’ll have to play with it a bit more, but I really really like it.

Note: this is an update to this article from around a fortnight ago.

[Update 2012-04-05 09:39:29] Here is a link to the page from Google with some of the updates/changes in ICS.

[Update 2012-04-10 07:16:28] After using ICS for 5 days, I wrote more about what I think

Image from mar___ via flickr

02/04/201218/01/2019

Creme Egg McFlurry

Ohh yeah…it is that time again….. Here’s a link to the article I wrote last year. They are good as ever 🙂

02/04/2012

Sick

First off, I’ve been way sicker this winter than I’ve ever been before. I don’t want to speak for him, but my office mate has been sick loads too. In some ways, I think we keep sharing the same things back and forth and back and forth.

Anyway, on Saturday, I feel asleep and woke up with one of these “I’m going to get a sore throat” feelings. Sure enough…it got worse and worse and worse. By the time bedtime for the kids came, I had a difficult time eating ice cream. Yesterday, I didn’t go to church (slept all day). Today, I didn’t go into the office. But I did get in to see the dr who took one look and said something like “oh.” She gave me antibiotics for my strep throat.

This is on of the worst times to be sick. Over the next month, I’ve got 2 trips to make…I’ll be gone and home the same amount of time. ARG…..

While we are at it, does anyone have any good ideas for a homemade disinfectant and ideas about how to clean an office?

[Update 2012-04-03 22:19:16] Well, after a bit more than 24 hours on medicine, I’m doing loads better. I fit 4 doses in on Monday (I was supposed to take 2 pills 4 times per day). I woke up this morning only feeling slightly better, but that was way better than I felt all weekend. I’m headed to work tomorrow…where my first take will be to clan my desk, phone, and anything else I can think of with disinfectant.

Image from ateo fiel via flickr