I have just discovered that my VX8300 phone can do near-infrared photos! (Verified by using a TV remote, it saw the light!) Now I need to play more with infrared photos on my phone.... Need a filter. Edit: And, as if it's my birthday, our camcorder does it too! I just tested it, then I put the developed unexposed transparency film (a cheap infrared-pass filter) and it worked! I'm charging it's battery now, I may take it with me tomorrow to test at lunch (the best time to do IR photos).

A cool optical illusion

Here is a cool optical illusion. It took me about a couple of minutes before my brain decided that she was going the other way, and it seems to flip randomly. Rather cool.

I HATE MICROSOFT

I hate Microsoft. They are in a class all by themselves, and it is not a distinguished class - the class of those incapable, truly incapable, of writing a decent web browser. In developing a recent module for HouseFront's system, I discovered the "joy" of working with complex JavaScript in a web browser written for < expletive removed before posting, read: poopoo-heads >. Firefox, even without the developer's extensions, runs spheres, not just circles, but 4-d *super-SPHERES around Internet Explorer. Opera's not that great, but at least it ran my code, and Safari seems fine at first glance. But IE *sucks*. Sucks sharp rocks. With mossy outcroppings. Hallucinogenic moss. 'Cause that's what they were smelling when they wrote IE's code. (Except that they really didn't, they 'used' the code from Mosaic and hacked it up in a furball containing cancer-causing substances outlawed in California. Good thing they're based in Washington state.) So, to sum up: Microsoft sucks. They suck because they can't seem to truly innovate, and instead they take things others make, and make them worse. (Kinda reminds me of that commercial about the company that doesn't make things, they make things better. Only the reverse.) IE, as a browser, sucks. Everytime someone asks, and even sometimes when they don't, I'll let people know what I think of IE and FF. This userpic really sums up my feelings vis-a-vis IE. It should die a quick death, followed by a Windows Update for Firefox with a critical tag.

Windows sucks

From :

...IE is still the #1 PC browser and it's a pile of crap with holes so big you could drive not just a Safari, but the whole of the African plains through it.

I love it.

First infrared photo

My attempt at near-infrared photography: I used a cheap method for making it, though, so I have to filter out the blue of the image, and I wasn't sure if it would work right. I hope to do more in the future.

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