Digital Cameras Part 2

It’s been just over two years since I first wrote about my thoughts on digital cameras. I figured I’d update that a little bit as a lot can happen in two years time, and has. For a year and a half now I’ve owned a Canon D300 digital SLR camera I bought used off ebay. It’s been a great camera for me and in that time I haven’t touched film. I’ve picked up my Nikon FE just to hold it in my hands for old times sake, but the poor thing I’m afraid won’t see any more action from me. I’m converted.
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The Apple iPhone

Earlier this month Apple Inc. announced the iPhone at their 2007 Macworld keynote. This has been a long rumored product and after its announcement every tech site seemed to gravitate around it for the following week. Since then however many peoples heads have seemed to shrink back down to size and really weigh out the products advantages and disadvantages. I want to talk a little bit about the iPhone because it clearly marks a certain shift in the possibilities of the American cell phone market. Lately Apple has been hot on the lips of people in the tech industry because the company represents not only innovative ideas but also fashionable electronics. There is a certain amount of lust factor that Apple products carry with them that more people then just mac fan’s are starting to take notice of.
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Welcome Back 2007

It’s been a while since I’ve posted on this site. The year 2006 pretty much just flew by without me even really taking a look at this website, and 2005 was nearly the same.

Well I don’t plan to avoid this site in 2007. To be honest I’ve been posting a lot but I’ve just been doing it in my Livejournal where I have a captive audience of friends (readers). They read what I write (sometimes) because it’s on their “friends page” along with the entries from their other friends. To that end Livejournal has been a staple to my group of friends for over a half decade now. We all use it to keep up on each others daily/weekly lives. And now that we are spread all over the country it makes even more sense. That’s one of the things I really enjoy about Livejournal, the community aspect. People by nature are kind of greedy or at least require attention. Most people want other people to read their stuff when they write it. But the problem with blogs that exist on private websites is that you usually have to remember to visit that site, and unless it’s really compelling most people don’t. But with Livejournal everyones blogs are in the same place, all interconnected. So viewing your “friends page” will show you updated entries from all your friends without having to visit fifty different websites. Sure blogs can do similar things but you have to be more tech savy and pay for your own hosting.
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Falling Apart

My first feature film Falling Apart is now available on DVD. Now onto more.

http://www.ScapeFilms.com

It’s Back

I got the Roxics.com domain name back. Somehow by some great act or kindness, company policy or just miracle of God. I don’t know. All I know is I sent and email askign waht it would cost me to get it back and got a replay saying it was back in my account. So I checked and sure enough it was. I renewed it right away.

It’s going to take a few days to get it set up again, but it will be back. Either just forwarded to here or as a new an extended alternate version of this site.

Gone are the old days

Unfortunately I lost the roxics.com web site address. I owned it for four years and all was fine and good. Then this past year I stopped using hotmail and switched to gmail as my primary email account. It’s been a good while since this switch and I’ve found I only check my hotmail now about once a month. However my Dotster (my old domain register) still had my old hotmail address and sent my reminder to renew email to there. I didn’t get it in time. The domain went public and someone else bought it. It’s unfortuante. Who would buy it that quick. It can only be a cold hearted cybersquatter who wants nothing more then to just put up some stupid search page and try to makes pennies off of it. It should be illegal to do that.

Now I had to register roxics.net in it’s place. I will register all my domains for 10 years now. Just to make sure.

People are telling me they like the .net better. I hope so, it’s what I’ve got.

It’s not like the domain name meant lot to other people. But it did to me. I invented the word roxics. It was the name of a character in a story I’ve been writing for half my life. I adopted that characters name as my online identity and call sign for the last 5-6 years. It’s a sentimental thing. My calling card. Now I don’t even own the .com to it anymore. It just irks me to no end somebody would come along and grab it up that quick just because.

Ok I’m done bitching. Please forget about the dot com address. Never visit it again. By visiting it you’re only enabling the company/person who grabbed it into thinking they did the right thing because people will visit it and they’ll make money off that. So forget about the dot com. The dot net it where it’s at now. Tell everyone abotu roxics.net.

Robots taking over

Tonight I was browsing google (don’t remember what for)and I came across this article

http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm

which deals with the possiblity of robots eliminating 50% of American jobs by 2055. I have to admit I agree with the guy to some extent. This is not a new subject by any means. It’s been talked about for years and years. But I think it’s only within the last 20 years that people have come to accept it is actually possible within our lifetime.
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My thoughts on digital cameras

I started shooting photography back when I was in tenth grade. Previous to that I never really shot a still camera. I could probably count on my hands the number of times I took photos in my life before then. Some parents give their kids cameras and some kids just grabs peoples to use. I never was interested. I did however use a video camera from age 10. Just goofing around.

When I hit tenth grade I knew by then I wanted to be a filmmaker. But my high school didn’t offer any video classes so I decided the next best thing was to take a photography class.
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Movable Type review

Typically I use this weblog as a way to present some new or different ideas. Or at least I have for the last so many entires. However for anyone who does check this site they’ll notice that I have changed the format in the last couple of days. Instead of being just a site about “Ideas for a New World” I’ve blended it with my personal website. I needed a better way to get to my personal website and well these “ideas” are personally mine. So it all works out. In trying to blend the two sites together I had a figure out a way to do it.
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Light Fighter

Have you ever played Laser tag? Imagine for a minute if we introduced some form of new display technology to the game. You put on a pair of what looks like sunglasses but are completely clear. The glasses have a wire going off of them connected to a small box clipped to your belt. This box acts as a trasmitter of types. Also connected to this box is your headphones with mic. Your wearing a vest. Looks like a regular black vest. Except inside are hundreds of little sensors.
In your hand is a gun. Everyone around you is dressed similiar.
Suddenly the games begin.
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