Categories
goodies

The Pirates of Iwo Jima

I noticed a spike in my Flickr [flickr.com] stats recently:

beggs Flickr stats overview 15 Aug 09 to 11 Sept 09

Most days I have a number of photos in the 3 or 8 views range and maybe one or two photos in the 9 to 15 views range. But on the day in question one photo got a lot of attention:

beggs Flickr views by image on 31 Aug 09

A little more digging and most of the views originated from Stylem [stylem.com] who sell an iPhone application called “backgrounds” (get it here in iTunes [itunes.apple.com].) The application (which I have on my iPhone) allows one to browse and download various images other have submitted to the iPhone to use as wallpapers. Apparently there are people who like my photo of the Iwo Jima Pirates graffiti in DC.

However, the photo is not very well optimized for the iPhone display. So I took a few minutes and made a version that (I think) is better optimized for the iPhone screen. Here it is:

The Pirates of Iwo Jima
Categories
photography

Sungei Buloh Wetlands Reserve, Singapore, August 2009

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Sungei Buloh Wetlands Reserve [sbwr.org.sg] is one of the few truly wild places left in Singapore. You can see quite a lot of wildlife there; monitor lizards, tree frogs, resident and migrant water birds and, I’m told, even small saltwater crocs on occasion. Unfortunately, I didn’t see a croc, but I did see lots of crabs and even a tree frog or two.

You can see the full Sungei Buloh Wetlands Reserve, Singapore, August 2009 photoset on Flickr [flickr.com]

Categories
photography

Old Changi Hospital, Singapore, August 2009

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I’ve been to OCH before [confusion.cc] to take photos but I think I’ve got a better eye and better equipment now. The end results don’t necessary justify that statement. I like the photos, but they don’t have that creepy feeling I would want. Partly I think it’s due to not post-processing the images very much. No major dodge and burn or change in the hues. Partly the images don’t tell any story. Maybe I need a model.

You can see the whole Old Changi Hospital, Singapore, August 2009 photoset on Flickr [flickr.com].

Categories
ranting

One day I will live down my whoring

confusion.cc top search positions by query
Four floors of keywords

Yea, four of the top ten search queries that return a confusion.cc page in their results on Google are all pointing to the same entry [confusion.cc]. Not sure how I feel about being known for one night of whoring… I didn’t even get any…

And what’s up with the lack of spelling skills? I thought I was bad.

Categories
ranting

Mark of The Beast

beggs bares the mark of The Beast on StackOverflow

I have the mark of The Beast on StackOverflow [stackoverflow.com].