Learn Today!

Posted on October 30th, 2007 by john.
Categories: personal, work.

Things I learned today:

  1. Be prepared to interview someone or two at any day, they might just come when you least expect them to show up.
  2. Because there’s such thing as the 32 Forbidden Interview Questions, be more creative on the questions, and that’s hard especially with candidates with no previous work experience, fresh grads, or lower level workers (janitor, delivery boy, etc).
  3. Don’t write too much e-mail, focus on your main job.. I’ve got 3 contracts due tomorrow, and it’s way over my working hours now :P
  4. No matter how stupid the leader is, but when they win his/her followers heart, the followers would die for him/her.

It’s time to go home :)

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Makassar Solar Halo

Posted on October 29th, 2007 by john.
Categories: Makassar, fun.

My wife called me this morning, about 10.50 AM. I thought she wanted to remind me to pick her up and together go and pick up our son from school, but I was wrong.

“There’s a solar eclipse right now!!!! People here are all outside, watching the sky, using sun-glasses. People are taking pictures. Just go outside and see it for yourself.”

“What? A solar eclipse? It’s impossible, there’s no news about it, and it isn’t dark outside.”

I was near the entrance door of my office, I looked outside, everything seems OK, no sign of supposed-to-be dark solar eclipse situation. But, I step outside, and look up to the sky, there’s something strange allright, there’s some sort of rainbow near the sun. Curious, I step further outside, to the street in front of my office, look up, and while trying to block the sun with my hands, I see a big Halo, surrounding the sun.

No, it wasn’t a solar eclipse this morning that appeared to everyone in Makassar, but it was a Solar Halo. People aren’t familiar with this phenomenon and almost everyone refer to it as an eclipse, they thought that the big round thing was the moon, covering the sun.

Anyway, I took a great picture of it. I tried to take the picture near my house, but there are always electrical cords hanging all around and ruin my picture. So, after picking up my son, we decided to go to an area called Tanjung Bunga, which I know has no electrical cords hanging in the streets, specially along the Metro street. So, I stopped a while, open the car door a bit, and look straight up with my (new) camera.. and here’s the best picture i’ve got:

Makassar Solar Halo

I took a total of 75 pictures of the halo, and this is the most round and full of the halo. Using ISO 100 and -1 Exposure, this image is still disturbed by my car door at the right-up corner and left-bottom corner. My eyes are still uncomfortable now, specially when I close it :P

BTW, I also wanted to take pictures of people taking picture of the halo, but I only got one:

Taking Halo Pictures

So, enjoy the halo as I and Makassar people did this morning :)

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The New Ones

Posted on October 29th, 2007 by john.
Categories: fun, personal.

A new Sony Ericsson w880i (15/9/07), quite an upgrade from Nokia 6600 :)
A new Canon EOS 400D (26/10/07), a cure for the broken S2IS, an upgrade of class, an upgrade waited since 2006, an upgrade with a lot more costs to come :P

Screenshots as follows:

myw880i

CanonEOS400D

both picture are taken just an hour ago.

The Phone was pictured using the 400D, an the Camera (and the great halo behind it) is taken using the w880i.

And coming up next.. the Halo itself. :)

btw, thank you Daeng Rusle for visiting me :)

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