Wednesday July 05, 2006 |
Wednesday July 05, 2006 What I thought of my visit to the Labs!I visited Sun Labs Open House at the begining of June. This took place over the first and second, but I have only just managed to write up my notes and post them on the blog. For various reasons, I have backdated the entries to the approximate real time to preserve my personal narrative . I was lucky to be able to meet so many clever people and see so many clever things which I'm certain will make a difference, although in some cases, its the research in writing the notes that has provoked real interest. For you to read what I've written, you might find the following links usefull. Here are blogs day links: First Day, Second Day. You can also use the standard index sidebar (or these hyperlinks) to bring up my first article, Wall of Innovation and then go forward, or the last article, Slot Car or SPOT car? and rack backwards. I have also put this article's link into the blogroll sidebar, under the Links folder as "What I said about Sun Labs!". The demo reviews are also all categorised as Technology, so using the button bar at the top of the page will let you see most of what I wrote. The articles reflect what I thought at the time. I have since spoken to both colleagues and customers and recognise that some of my priorities were a bit awry and I may not have given some subjects sufficient attention, in particular, I didn't visit many of the "Virtualisation" projects available and havn't reported on those I did visit such as "Project Crossbow", a network interface virtualisation and resource managment project. This is also an Open Solaris project (see here...) for this. The media projects also suffered from a lack of attention, but I couldn't have visited everything. I have little doubt that I shall try to talk to some of the project staff to understand their projects more fully and to demonstrate their relevance to my customer(s), and hopefully you as well. tags: Technology SUNW sunlabs 
(2006-07-05 05:48:16.0) Permalink Taking snaps with SonyYesterday, I posted a photo review of my most recent trip to Europe. The pictures were taken with a recently issued new mobile phone, a Sony Erricsson V600i, ( See here... for the Sony Ericsson Page). While it answers the Bob Appleyard test, "Does it make phone calls?", I have been busy expoloring other parts of the phone's functionality. I took it to to Amsterdam and forget my better camera, another Sony, so all the pictures were taken using the phone. I'm really not sure, if its me or the phone, but these are not great pictures. The small screen & the limited controls don't help but neither does my attempts at snapshots and spontenaity. In one or two cases, I managed to take more than one picture of the same view but it doesn't seem to help. The quality of picture from the Cybershot seem better. It may be that the whole "using a camera" thing means that I concentrate more when using the Cybershot and the loss of quality is the price of the convenience {the phone is smaller} and spontenaity that the phone enables. The convenience has enabled me to photograph whiteboards, but even these pictures need writing up quickly as its unusual for the pictures to be of sufficient quality not to require converting to a presentation deck before I forget what was said.. I'm sure I'm not alone, but the phone is not as good a camera as the {designed for purpose} Cybershot! tags: technology gadgets digitalcamera mobilephone camera
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