Vacation #01- Rome

Had a vacation at Rome early this June. Some of the vacation memory:

St Peter Church


Victor Emmanuel Monument


Spiral Ramp in Vatican Museum

DSLR vs. Film Scanner

Recently, I have considered to buy a DSLR camera so replace my 15 years old 35mm film camera. Nikon D200 was the closest choice. But I was too picky and couldn't find one model fitted my requirements:

• Reuse my existing camera lenses (Nikon AIS lenses, fixed focal length [no zoom], pretty good quality indeed)
• Long battery life (I still find this is a hurdle to me coz my 35mm film camera is full manual; no battery life constriant)
• Full frame (otherwise, my existing lenses will be wasted; e.g.: 24mm = 38mm [1.6])

I finally bought a film scanner last Sat as an alternative (Nikon Super Coolscan 500 ED, very cool!). Here are some of my very old portfolios in Europe (my first travel after graduation):









Not bad, right!

Avoid Confusion through Inclusion

Have read a book "Working At Warp Speed" in which the author uses a simple game to demonstrate the importance of "inclusion" in project management:

Here is a message and please read it as quickly as possible:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
IC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF MANY
YEARS OF EXPERTISE.

Ok. Then reread the message and count the number of letter Fs.

What is your answer? (will tell you soon)