I have been in Bombay for a week now. Traffic snarl-ups are a reality of life here, and enterprising hawkers flog magazines to passengers caught in traffic jams.
According to my wife, one of the publications they sell is “ee-keya” – Ikea catalogs. The thing is, Ikea does not (yet) have a presence in India. What people do is buy the catalog, then ask their carpenters to reproduce the furniture therein. It seems Ikea design is quite prestigious here…
Is a monitor color calibrator…
I can’t understand people who spend thousands of dollars on expensive lenses, tripods, memory cards and other accessories but neglect to calibrate their monitors so the colors they are seeing in screen are what the digital values actually stand for. Calibrators can be had for under $100 nowadays, and combination monitor/printer calibrators like the ColorMunki or the PrintFIX Pro go for under $500, there is no reason for any serious photographer not to have one.
I am sick and tired of product introductions dubbed “HD” because they support 720p (yes, I am looking at you, Nikon D90 and Flip Mino HD).
HD starts at 1080p. Deal with it.
It has come to my attention today that Société Générale, my bank in France (yes, they of the €5B rogue trader loss), acquired the makers of Moleskine notebooks in 2006 for the not inconsiderable sum of €60M.
In November, I have flown from San Francisco to London, back to San Francisco, on to Auckland, Queenstown, Wellington, Auckland, back to San Francisco, Houston, back to Oakland. When combined with my upcoming trip to Bombay, I will have traveled 70,000 kilometers, or nearly twice the circumference of the Earth…