I came across a review of digital cameras at Anandtech today. These digicams are fast becoming popular, and are indeed quite handy. Technology is largely about reducing waiting time….while simultaneously improving quality of output…..and digicams above 4 megapixel do just that. I own a Samsung point and shoot. But unfortunately, I limit using it only for vacations/trips. This is mainly due to the expensive developing and printing charges. And the time between clicking snaps and actually getting to see it in print makes the whole activity very very unexciting.

Anyways, coming back to digital cameras, the review I read judged the Kodak Easyshare DX4530 as best buy for >$300 USD. I checked out the features of this model on the website, and ended up drooling. Simple math told me that $300 USD = 16k INR approx. Very affordable…and considering that you are getting a 5 Megapixel camera for that amount - very wishable. I browsed around the net a little more and stumbled upon Kodak’s India site. The same camera sells for 30k here. Yeah, thirty thousand fucking rupees!!! Ever heard of the saying “don’t count yer chickens……” ?

I am blogging from home after a long time. Most of the posts in the recent past have come from work. Blogging from work is both good and bad. Actually, its good and bad for the same reason. Using office time to pursue leisure activities is not considered appropriate. But looking at it from another angle, blogging brings a little excitement into the dullness of routine. What the heck…I have my Y! messenger running all the time anyway. And I’ve stopped counting the number of times my Project Manager has caught me chatting
Evening ended up being pretty frustrating. Having completed a fair amount of coding, I decided to start entering text into my website. My default browser at home is Opera, and all seemed well at different stages of testing/previewing. For some reason I decided to check out the output in I.E….and ended up seeing my beautiful site being displayed in the most screwed up manner. I spent the entire evening (didn’t attend Yoga class) debugging the HTML code without luck. I still havent been able to figure out what’s wrong. Anyways, as an FYI, here are the steps I followed to build the site:

1) Design in Photoshop
2) Slice in ImageReady. All mouseovers are created at this step
3) Generate a HTML file, along with images (the slices) from Imageready
4) Editing/Tweak in Dreamweaver.

Now, I am not sure at which step the browser incompatibility sneaked in. In the above mentioned process, there is actually very little coding involved. ImageReady takes care of most of the HTML….which actually is not the way the old-schoolers (VI & Notepad fans) like to work. I even tried to re-slice using Fireworks….but no luck. My navbar still looks like it was farted on, by an elephant…all broken :(( I HATE I.E…

I guess i’ll hit the bed now….

Peace