I’m in a bus yesterday and i heard a cellphone ring “to the left to the left” and i saw likke 5 people look on their hips and reached for pockets and so on and i thought to my self. wow. in this day and age where there are vibrating alerts on the cheapest handsets, where ringtones can be so unique as compared to days of old when everyphone and i mean everyphone just went “ring ring” “ring ring”‘.

It led me to think how the hell did anybody ever get someone when they needed them. cellphone in your pocket and ringing and you have absolutely no idea if your in a very noisy environment cuase it doesn’t vibrate. cellphone in your bag and ringing same thing. worse when you gotta have it on silent.

I remember at one point the only way you could have a vibrating phone is if you bought a vibrating battery. which lasted you not veery long because it uses a lot of power to vibrate so you’ld end up having to walk with your charger. God bless whoever first integrated the vibrating alert built in the sell phone. My first experience was the ALMIGHTY NOKIA 3310 (err eeh ahh ahh argh uh  :transformer reference (stellar movie btw) ). That was the dawn of a new age in jamaica if you ask me. Digicel came and lit the way to the damp, deep darkness that jamaicans wallowed in called a mobile telephony market.

Thanks for the light digicel.. but you still a bitch.. in other ways which i wont go on long about read that rant here.

It finally came. Everything is great. Ebay worked out after all. It was a really nice bundle. Roughly $550 usd for

• Rebel xt body (silver)
• 28 - 80 mm tamron lens kit
• table top tripod
• Lens Cleaning kit
• 1 gig CF card
• all manuals all cd’s
• all cables

Everything that was promised was delivered.

What I need to get right now is

• A sturdy camera bag big enough to carry my camera and lens
• a better sun flare for my lens
• a few filters

What I want to get

• A new tripod old one works but I wanted a new oner with the lil winding thing to lower / hiehten the Y hieght of the camera ( probably wont buy this )
• a 75 - 300 usm canon lens for macro shots
• A super wide angle lense but thats gonna rape my wallet.

The photography begins again.

Well its officially been announced the day of the sevens was the day that we were told that election time is on the 24th of august (if memory serves me correct). I’ve been hard at work workin on the Jamaica Gleaners Jamaica General Elections 2007 Coverage Website. The outcome is really nice. (The design was not done by me) Just customization of the blogs and the forums. Kinda funny my hobby of blogging leads to yet another productive feat

Here’s the Jamaica Election blogs. Get your oppinions read. MB you probably gonna have a blast with this

There are six fears that everyone who demands a fullfilling life, both of mental and materialistic states, must defeat.

1. Fear of poverty
2. Fear of criticism
3. fear of ill health
4. fear of loss of love of someone
5. fear of old age
6. fear of death

Many of us deny the truth behind our fears. As soon as we are asked the question. “what are you afriad of” our reply may instantly be nothing.  Fearlessness rarely exists naturally in humans but must be cultivated, and then groomed into maturity within the core of your personality.

Many embarkments  / efforts which could be profitable are derailed  based on the first fear which seems to be the most powerful of them all.  Under  Fear number one falls a crap load of other things. like financial insecurities and so on.

I’ve been kicking fears ass alot as of lately and I would like to invite you to do the same. It feels good The battle is long and tedious but well worth it in the end.

Start of by doing a self assesment demand of your self truthful answers irresspective of how embarrasing the answer might be. If you can’t truthfully assess yourself ask someone that knows you well enough to do it for you.  Better yet ask 3 people and comare the results Of the three.

After finding out which fears bind you from achieving Proceed to destroy it.  Be Fearless.

Regards

Hope you like it. Not much different from an rss feed as its basically doing the same thing. only different is it has a bit of colors thrown on it and its in the google gadget directory.

I’m amused by the filter feature. I’m not really a party guy so i thought it was quite impressive that events.in876.com decided to make filteres for people who really couldn’t care less for certain categories. Finally it works. But sadly not 100% as yet. Guess they working on it on a phased basis. Site really shaping up now.

Gave ma daily check on events.in876.com to see what events were taking place today and tomorrow. Did it via the rss feed of course.. When i went there i notice.. a new thing on the index page.. A filter block below the calendar. Sadly it doesn’t seem to work as yet. But really pimptastic idea.. good stuff fromt he in876 guys.. Take a look at it your self

Events.in876.com - Them fellaz really go hard. Clearly they determined to be a cut above the rest in the internet promotion business when it comes to events.

They’ve added light box flyer browsing on the index page, they’ve made minor aesthetic chagnes to the calendar that help the current day stand out more and a really cool thing, when you hover over the plus sign in a particular day cell you get a little tip saying add event to [day's date].. kinda cool.. it helps people that not clear on what to do along.

To see the flyer browser click on the small image icon under the event title and watch the magic unfold :p

It resizes the flyers for the users so the users’ dont gotta resize it them selves. If the user wants a really pretty flyer though they just need to make it less than 600 pixels wide and 600 pixelss high.

And to me one of the coolest things is the events.in876.com upcomming events rss feed (subscribe ). For the lazy. lol or those that just got too many sites to visit. The rss feed syndicates with the calendars upcomming events shows the title + date and a small description. Which takes you to the full description when you click the title link for the event.

The hover over popup for event description was always there but its still cool to this day.

Thats about it as far as i can see right now still. I really rate the calendar and I hope them continue to do what them do to the best of them ability.

4 G racing took it home yesterday at vernam. Winning the 12 second class race. Events.in876.com sponsored and endorsed. Evolution powered.

Today “techjamaica” had a little event. The turn out honestly was way less than I expected but a good turn out non the less I guess.  I saw a few people I knew all was well. I was really busy to be honest so I was in and out of the event on my own personal business.

The main highlight of the event was the owner’s / creator’s speech. Quite interesting. Most of what he said was for the most part accurate. I’ve learnt quite a few things at my current place of employment relative to internet users, When they complain listen. forget about how you see it working and try to adhere to there needs and wants. Your community is based on well… your community. Your worst user is  your best asset (worst being the one you are annoyed of because of his constant complaints, there is bound to be some just underlying reason for his concern and revolt) and, do not be afraid to utilize technology available to you, The ui for the “tech portal of jamaica” is extremely outdated looks played out and utilizes’s no up to date technology from a user experience perspective. Remember the users’s care less about what your running on the backend its all about how it feels when using the website.

moving on from that However theree were a few key things that I had to laugh at were.

I believe in specialization. Specialize in what you do and stick to it. A lot of people are getting into a lot of things that they need not necessarily get into. Not because it was successful for me it doesn’t mean that you can do it.

I thought about it, I thought about it and i thought about it. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt that they always mean others well before I say anything negative.

Now Who are you to say what others can and cannot, should and should not do. I understand the logic of running the risk or watering down or thinning away one’s talent / competence by venturing into territory they may not understand. What you should ask your self however before jumping to ridiculous conclusions is:

1. Do they see something I’m not seeing.

2. Could I be doing something better than I currently am.

3. Have I attempted other strategies that may be more democratically implemented

However the man clearly knows everything so anything else other than what he said is probably out of the question. Internet communism at its best.

He made a statement about “greed” and how people are just venturing into various projects with money at the core of the efforts. Speak not what you do not know and understand. You know nothing of what drives people. Many people are disgruntled with how things are handled within the techjamaican community. Similarly to how Jamaicans are disgruntled with what is taken place within the country politically. Based on your logic its wrong for another party to analyze the community, Create their own based on your weakness’s and strength and try  in the best possible way to give users what they need / ask for. So technically one party should reign forever in whatever the field it is they are in.

Your delusional and kind of closed minded. Wake up. I will not stop doing what I’m doing. I’m not trying to be rude to anyone but I just cant seem to fathom what right someone has to tell another to Stop based on the premise of I was doing this first.. if this was the case cable and wireless would still have Jamaica under technological oppression where communications are concerned. If I get banned from a site over this this further proves my point. This is my point of view and I have the FREEDOM to express it if i desire to.