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August 08, 2008
What passed by my eyes - this week's bytes.
Well, it's COB Friday and the working week is over. Been quite eventful and I guess the Beijing Olympics will hold a fair bit of interest for a fair number of people for a while. What did pass my eyes this week? A recent article about putting solar powered GPS units on cows by spotted by Mike Elgan.
And in lead up to Photokina, Nikon's unusual P6000 camera (using a new NRW RAW file format that Nikon's standard software doesn't know how to process, containing, yes a GPS for geotagging, and an wired ethernet connector. Mount the thing on a panoramic pole, tether it to a notebook and guess you could do your own Streetview then eh?
The big buzz in the consumer digital camera industry industry is of course, the announcement of the Micro Four Thirds Standard. This lays the foundations for building an EVIL (Electronic Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens) consumer camera, but interestingly is not a fully open standard - hmm - I guess "Standard" has now joined the list of English words subverted to marketingese. Some people are already planning wishlists for such cameras, others are denouncing it as the usurper of the genuine Four Thirds Standard models, others are saying "The King is Dead, Long Live the King". Outside of an NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement) though, no actual hardware has been sighted. Real Soon Now. Or not.
Charles has had his head in the clouds, more and more. People started writing about a cloudy Notepad - MyTextFile. Initially, I was puzzled and then realised, it's supposed to prove that Google App Engine will work.
Old Things I spotted while searching for references:
Posted by Anandasim at August 8, 2008 07:16 PM
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