I just returned from a week long Cabo sailing trip and brought home a wonderful chest and sinus cold as a souvenier. I took the pictures shown on the Holiday Card a couple years ago at Green Lake in Seattle, from the photos you can see that it did dump quite a bit. There were a bunch of mini-snowmen and even a decortated tree.
Aggregation of the aggregators has started.
Jamdat today announced it has been acquired by Electronic Arts, itself a player in the mobile space, but one that never seemed to get a mobile business model in high gear. After today, not only is EA in high gear, but it owns most of the significant turf it was unable to exploit on its own.
The merger agreement calls for EA to pay $27 cash per share and also assume outstanding stock options for a total of about $680 million, according to EA.
Now what consolidation lays ahead for the rest of the gaming Mafia, Mforma, In-Fusio, and Digital Bridges?
…and so it goes
I got the Canon 20D last month and since I’m new to the SLR world, I’ve been doing lots of experimentation. The 18-55mm lense that comes with the package works well for many of those wide angle shots and even those up and close shots. I also spoiled myself and picked up the 70-200mm 4LU from Canon as well.
Since being a newbie in the SLR arena this 200mm canon is a cannon, this lense is Ginormous!
In hindsite I think spending the extra $1k for the IS image stablization version would have really made me look like a pro, but since my lense doesn’t have IS, it will force me to build my technique. I feel that although technology can help make our life better or make us look like superstars, its important to learn the basic skills that technology is replacing, i.e. navigation by GPS rather than using charts etc.
We are innundated with technology that saves us time or makes certain skills unneccessary. The next time you buy a cool new gadget or toy ask yourself how life would be if you couldn’t rely on it and what skills you had to overcome the dependence.
This shows the city of Seattle from Queen Anne Hill using the 18-55mm lense, full automatic.
This photo shows the Space Needle at 200mm using the 70-200mm 4LU, I’m a good mile away and I can see visitors on the vista deck.
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