Welcome students! You are the first to get to use Mr. Morgan Teacher’s new blog. Good luck! Hehehehe!

1/80, f/7,1, ISO 100, fill flash

Surf has been great these past few weeks. Been shooting quite a bit here in San Clemente at various spots. Picked up a new to me 1d and paired it with my 600mm for the first real test this week. I am amazed at the quality, focus speed, and pretty much everything else with this combo. At times it can be a little too zoomed in, however, still getting use to it, for sometime I’m sure. Planning a trip to hopefully hop over to Oahu this winter and shoot, but who knows at the moment. I’ll continue to post up shots with the beautiful October light and hoping that it lasts in to November. Check out the Flickr account for a few more pics from Lowers and other spots in San Clemente from the past few days. 

Daniel Franks

Se vi piace lavorare con il legno e la fotografia, questa notizia potrebbe stuzzicarvi.

Canon ha pubblicato una semplice guida, sotto forma di immagini, per costruire una riproduzione in legno di una Canon EOS 1D. Questi modelli sono utilizzati, anche per testarne la praticità durante la fase di progettazione.

La costruzione è abbastanza semplice, ma un po’ laboriosa, poiché vi serviranno vari strati di balsa da tagliare, incollare e modellare uno sull’altro. Ogni immagine della galleria rappresenta una fase del lavoro ed è corredata da commenti e consigli pratici.

Muchas veces me he topado con comentarios con respecto a las dimensiones y que si hay una dimensión alternativa, o que si vivimos en una dimensión x, o que si la “otra dimensión”, etcétera. Aquí trato de explicar de manera rápida qué es una dimensión y cómo es que está aplicada a las cosas y finalmente, comentar la dimensión en la que vivimos.

¿Qué es una dimensión?

Una dimensión es una forma de medida, es una medición. La altura de una persona es una dimensión. El ancho de un río, también es una dimensión, la profundidad de un pozo es una dimensión. Por tanto, debe quedarnos claro que una dimensión es una forma de medir, no un mundo paralelo o una vida paralela o cualquier otra cosa que se nos pueda ocurrir o nos puedan platicar.

¿En qué dimensión vivimos?

Primero vamos a ir explicando desde la dimensión más básica hasta la más compleja que es donde vivimos. En la siguiente imágen, tenemos tan sólo un punto:

Este punto no tiene dimensión, no tiene un tamaño ni nada, por lo que es nada más eso un punto. Sin embargo, si ponemos varios puntos juntos, se crea una línea. Esta línea si tiene una dimensión, ésta será nuestra 1a dimensión:

Entonces, en realidad, cuando nos referimos a la 1a dimensión, se refiere a una sola de estas, es un largo, un alto, una longitud, etcétera. En la 1a dimensión, sólo existen líneas simples. De aquí, si tenemos una segunda línea formando un cuadro, estaremos llegando a la 2a dimensión:

En este caso, ya tendremos como se menciona, dos dimensiones, la longitud y la altura. En la 2a dimensión, viven todas las figuras geométricas “planas”, porque a final de cuentas, se tiene una imagen de esa forma. De aquí, vamos a agregar una 3a dimensión, el fondo:

Aquí es donde llegan las formas como las percibimos en el mundo real. Porque todo objeto que vemos tiene tres dimensiones: altura, ancho, fondo; esto, a menos que veamos propiamente una imagen que nos hace pensar que está plana, en ese caso estaremos viendo algo en 1D o 2D o incluso un punto que no tiene dimension.

Cuando nos dicen que vamos a ver una película en 3D, es porque se percibe en la misma, que todas las cosas están presentes y al alcance de la mano. Esto se logra con una combinación de colores que hace que las cosas se vean como si tuvieran un fondo.

Ok, ya sabemos que las cosas que vemos pueden estar desde 3D hasta no tener una dimensión como lo es un punto, pero nuevamente, ¿en qué dimensión vivimos? Aquí, tenemos que agregar una dimensión más: El Tiempo. Esto nos lleva a la 4a Dimensión:

¿Cómo es esto? ¿Cómo que vivimos en la 4a dimensión? Pues si, es cierto, vivimos en la 4a dimensión, porque estamos regidos por el tiempo. Somos objetos en 3D que se mueven a través del tiempo. En este momento, mientras lees este artículo, estás sentado frente a la computadora, pero hace algunos minutos u horas, no lo estabas, tal vez, estabas en el baño, o comiendo, o jugando, o lo que sea.

Así, poniéndome de ejemplo, el objeto en 3D llamado Orlando, en este momento, está redactando un artículo en el WordPress, pero hace aproximadamente 4horas, el mismo objeto, no estaba aquí, se encontraba durmiendo en su casa. En ese momento hace 4horas, el objeto Orlando no estaba frente a la computadora. Si nos movemos a través del tiempo hacia el futuro 4horas, ya no encontramos al objeto Orlando en su cama, ya está frente a la computadora redactando un artículo frente a la computadora.

Esto aplica para todas las cosas y seres. Si retroceden ustedes en el tiempo la cantidad de años de su edad, se encontrarán en el vientre materno a punto de salir al mundo. Si a partir de ese momento, avanzan el tiempo, se encontrarán con que ya estaban en el kinder jugando con sus amiguitos, tiempo después, ya estaban en la secundaria, etcétera. Somos objetos que en 3D que se mueven a través del tiempo. Con esto llegamos a la respuesta final. ¡Vivimos en la 4a dimensión!

Sobre esto, aplican todavía más cosas, los universos paralelos, la teoría de cuerdas, los agujeros negros, etcétera, pues dan nuevas perspectivas al lugar en el que realmente vivimos, por ejemplo, puede haber otra dimensión que implique se manejen varios vectores de tiempo pero eso lo sabremos después. Aquí, pueden leer el libro Breve Historia del Tiempo de Stephen Hawking o algún otro libro del tema, donde podrán ver más detalles.

Generating barcodes, be it 1D or 2D, have never been easier. I will be using the Barbecue open source project hosted on sourceforge to generate a 1D barcode. After the barcode is generated I will decode the barcode by uploading it to a website whose service we shall use. However its also very simple to write a barcode decoder which shall be a topic of discussion later.

How to ….

First of all you need to download the Barbecue . Following are the jars added in my classpath

• barbecue-1.5-beta1.jar
• jdom.jar

Following is the code to generate a sample barcode

package com.datel.barcode;

import java.io.File;

import net.sourceforge.barbecue.Barcode;
import net.sourceforge.barbecue.BarcodeFactory;
import net.sourceforge.barbecue.BarcodeImageHandler;

public class GenerateBarcode {

	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

		Barcode barcode = BarcodeFactory.createCode128("HelloWorld:0505124456");
        File f = new File("c:\\barcode.png");
        BarcodeImageHandler.savePNG(barcode, f);

	}

}

Now you should find a file named barcode.png in you file system in C: drive. It should look like this

Barcode

We shall try to decode this image the easy way by uploading it to a website. Navigate to this website: ZXing This is a website hosted by the ZXing project team who have a java api for decoding barcode images. Upload your image and click Submit Query. You should see this as the output

HelloWorld:0505124456

A few words….

Even the Barbecue encoder is only beta and has been beta since May 2007. Also I really don’t comprehend why in the world these cool guys would make the Barcode class extend from javax.swing.JComponent. This really drives me mad to see such a thing but the BarcodeImageHandler class comes to the rescue. Anyways keep up the good work.

Humble Insight…

After my extensive search on the web I could not find a single open source java barcode encoder worth mentioning. I would be very much happy if any one could mention a good open source barcode encoder. But there were quite a few decoders though. Sadly to mention, if you want to encode data into barcodes on production applications you will have to rely on some commercial products out there. They are very good at what they do and are can very easily be integrated into your application. Many have facilities for resizing/rotating your image and can be very handy at times.

Using Barbecue looks all nice, simple and dandy but when you start getting requirements from your customers saying “Hey I want to put 100 MB of data in a 2D barcode” then things get hard. Although that’s a bit exaggerated, I know cases where my colleagues were asked for all weird kinds of things to be done with barcodes. To them I have only one thing to say… “Technology was made to help mankind and was not made to be abused by mankind”.

There is tremendous potential in this barcode industry and advanced encoding techniques keep coming out.

Bersin…sneezing….sama satu kategori! Yeah aku dilanda selsema, abes tisu aku gune wat lap. Badan tak panas. Tapi menjelang petang, tekak aku ada rasa kurang selesa. Janganlah demam pulawk! Aku pun telan ubat. Dalam setahun banyak kali kene g clinic, demam selsema punyer pasal. Cuaca sekarang pun extreme. Kalo sejuk, hujan memanjang. Panas kering angin pun takde. Teringat aku bait lagu Ebiet G Ade nih, Mungkin alam bosan bersahabat dengan kita, coba kita bertanya pada rumput yang bergoyang

Attended a medical check up as intructed by my company. Nervous gak tengok jarum aunty nurse tu, tapi melihat kerut wajah, aku rasa memang banyak dah pengalaman aunty dalam ‘mencucuk jarum’ ke lengan patients. Dier siap tanya ” Takut darah tak” aku cakap tak, “….tapi kalo banyak leh rebah…” dengan Bismillah dier masukkan mata jarum menembusi kulit, rasa cam semut gigit hoho. Dalam 10 bulan lepas aku check up jugak kat clinic kat Kuala Lumpur, ni untuk masuk keje. Nurse tu wat keje kasar, maybe baru lagi kot. Dua hari kesan cucuk tuh bengkak membiru. Check telinge aku pun okeh, lege aku, manela tau mild hearing loss ke. Dah name keje tempat bising memang ade risiko camtuh. Syukur semua ok!

Sebelum medical check up tadi, Pijam (osmet aku) cakap aritu ade game East Coast Region kat Kelab Desa Rantau Petronas (KDRP) . Aku pun galas camera, bawak g clinic. Doctor pelik napela aku bawak bag, aku sengih cam kerang wangi ahahaha! Sejam camtu selesai, aku menapak masuk ke KDRP. Canggung siot aku, jadi jakun jap explore location. Gamba budak kat atas nih, aku capture spontan, walaupun kaki tak masuk frame takpe bagi aku. Expressions dier ngn kakak dier main keja-keja tuh. Cukup innocence, jujur dalam meluahkan perasaan. Ikram, 5 tahun, bersekolah di Tadika kat Paka. Pendek ringkas padat jawapan dia kat aku bila aku cuba berborak dengannya.

Aku biarkan sahaja foto-foto ini bersuara, adakalanya visual lebih berkesan menyampaikan mesej dengan jelas. Kehidupan yang kita diami sekarang ini semakin menduga kita, menguji survival dan menuntut ke genius an individu.

Jangan pernah berputus asa wahai manusia! Semakin berat dugaan, aral melintang, semakin besar ganjaran menanti untuk kita

Bukanlah bertujuan memalukan sesiapa, meletakkan gambar di blog ini. Cuma niat untuk mengambil iktibar tentang erti perjalanan hidup penuh pancaroba. Dengan izin Tuhan yang Maha Kaya pasti sampai mesej yang cuba aku sampaikan menerusi karya aku, dengan nikmat pinjaman Tuhan ini. InsyaAllah

First thing’s first

Canon or Nikon?

Having used both I can tell you that my preference (easily) is Nikon. As well as being half the price of almost all their Canon counterparts, I’ve also found them to perform better in almost all aspects. Even if the Canon’s were significantly better, their price still just does not justify what you actually get.

Nikon have gone from strength to strength in recent years and the latest range of cameras (D80, D300, D3) is seriously hard to beat.

So let’s take a closer look.

Nikon D80

This is by no means at all a beginner’s camera or an amateur camera in terms of what it’s capable of, however it is most suited to the photography enthusiast who is just learning and getting into it.

The D80 is the oldest of the 3 models that we’ll examine today but it still boasts 10.2MP, 3FPS, and 11 Point AF. It doesn’t have any advanced features like sensor cleaning or (good) noise reduction, but its a really really good all round package.

The Canon equivalent is the 400D, which is regarded by most to be significantly inferior to theD80, which operates far more smoothly and is far easier to operate straight out of the box, as well as for advanced shots.

Nikon D300

This is a ’semi-pro’ camera, and generally the highest spec camera that you will find people using who aren’t professional photographers. The camera has almost all the advanced features of its older brother the D3, but its packed into a smaller package and isn’t quite as refined. For the price tag its the absolute best camera in its class.

Not even a year old, this bad boy boasts some of the most amazing features to ever come out of Nikon, including 12.3MP, 8FPS, and 51 Point AF. It also has full sensor cleaning, and excellent noise reduction, along with a whole host of rave reviews all over the internet.

The Canon equivalent would be the new(ish) 40D which although very good in its own regard, doesn’t really come anywhere close to the D300 in terms of features.

Nikon D3

Well, the chances are that if you’re reading this blog then you’re not planning on buying a D3 - because the D3 is the Nikon flagship pro-model, and the Pro’s don’t read miniscule little publications like this one, they read the magazines for the countless ‘camera of the year’ awards that this body has won. At over £2,800 in price just for the body you’d really need to make a living of photography to be able to justify the cost of owning.

The features of the D3 are incredible, the most notable of which is its full-frame sensor. Which is to say that the digital sensor which captures the images is the same size as a traditional frame on a 35mm strip of film - providing (as you might have guessed) far far higher image quality. Then obviously there’s the addition of 12.1MP, 9FPS, and 51 Point AF.

The Canon equivalent.. well.. there isn’t one really - the closes equivalent (The Canon Flagship model) would be the 1D MKIII, which is sadly, about twice the price and has notoriously buggy AF.

Conclusion

If you’re a beginner, grab the D80. If you’ve been photographing for a while then definitely grab the D300, which is my personal choice of the 3, and on the off chance that you’re a professional, or just rich enough to own half of the available west sussex land for sale then grab the GOD of a camera that is the D3.

The ladies chilling out after an outing session, bragging about who had the right settings when the bikini top of that hot model fell off during the beach shoot…

This photo is not so much of a photography wonder as you can see, it’s been bitch-slapped to the max on Lightroom, overdosed with presets to get that grimy, gritty and industrial feel to it.

Clockwise from top;
1. liLo - Canon EOS-1D Mark III with Canon Zoom Lens EF 24-70mm 1:2.8 L USM
2. iLeena - Canon EOS 5D with Canon Zoom Lens EF 16-35mm 1:28 L II USM
3. liLy -Nikon D80 with AFS Nikkor 14-24mm 1:2.8 G ED

Photo captured with;
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX 12 with Leica DC VARIO-ELMARIT 1:2.8-5.0/5.8-17.4 ASPH.

To ease into the writing part of the blog, I’ll start on a subject I can talk endlessly about… photo gear. First up, the hub of a camera system: the body.

I picked up a Canon 1D Mark III a few months ago. For the most part it is a great camera. But what a rap it has taken for its focus problems. I can’t decide if it is this negative reputation that has affected the way I see my pictures or if there really were more soft images. But it did seem that I was getting more soft images than with my 1D Mark II. After Richard and Regina’s wedding, I sent the camera back for the “fix” and it seems to be better… but it is probably all in my head.

The camera otherwise is more than I could have asked for. It is responds faster, colors/WB are more accurate out of camera and can shoot over 1000 frames between charges. The live view function is actually helpful believe it or not… great for tripod and product shots (for eBay of course). I do have to say… my favorite feature over the 1D Mark II is that it is much LIGHTER! I am getting old. As I get over the stigma, I think I will grow to love this body more and more.

Well… is it sharp?

The Canon EOS 1D Mark III has been selling for quite a while now (since February 23, 2007 at Amazon). Unfortunately, the pro community have been quarrelling with Canon over the poor performance of the 1D Mark III’s servo-autofocus engine, especially at high temperatures. Rob Galbraith’s site has been out in front of this issue since the beginning (June 19 was his first update). Now Rob has released an update assessing the 1D Mark III’s sub-mirror fix and v1.1.3 firmware.

The entirety of his in-depth analysis of the update is here.

Centenars de milers de “catalans emprenyats” van apoderar-se ahir del centre de Barcelona. La capital catalana va rendir-se davant una marea de ciutadans de totes les edats, de diferents partits, però tots units sota la mateixa consigna, la dignitat nacional. El dret a decidir sobre els afers que afecten els catalans, i en concret les infraestructures, van ser el pilar de les reclamacions de la gran quantitat de manifestants que van prendre la Via Laietana.

 

Josep Palau / Barcelona

Poc abans de les 17.00h arribava a Plaça Catalunya, “Déu n’hi do, però m’esperava més, em sembla que punxarem una mica”. Poc després arribava al carrer Fontanelles. Indescriptible. Encara no havia començat la manifestació i ja es veia una multitud que arribava des de la Plaça Urquinaona fins al carrer Pelai. Allò prometia.

A diferència de la Renfe, la manifestació va començar puntual. Personalitats del món intel·lectual i cultural iniciaven la marxa amb la pancarta que obria el pas: Som una nació i diem prou! Tenim dret a decidir sobre les nostres infraestructures! Darrere seu, les entitats i els ciutadans armats amb estelades, senyeres i pancartes amb originals lemes com “Magdalena, s’ha acabat el bròquil!”, “Espanya no ens estima: Divorciem-nos” i “PSZzzz”. Els polítics, relegats a tercer pla.

Al llarg de la manifestació, al llarg de la Via Laietana, predominava el pacifisme i la civilitat característiques dels catalans. Una marxa fonamentalment silenciosa, amb aïllades consignes, això sí, corejades per la majoria. Entre elles, la més sentida va ser, sense cap mena de dubte, “In-de-pen-dèn-ci-a”. La marxa prenia, doncs, un marcat i comprensible to sobiranista. Xiulets davant la seu de CCOO, que no va adherir-se a la convocatòria per “no donar ales al PP”, davant la comissaria de la Policia Nacional i algunes protestes aïllades davant la seu del Departament de Governació (on la bandera espanyola saludava, onejant, els manifestants) van animar la manifestació al llarg del seu transcurs.

Pocs minuts després de les 18.00h i la capçalera arribàvem a l’escenari situat davant l’Estació de França, on Mònica Sabata i Gerard Fernàndez, membres de la PDD, llegirien per primera vegada el manifest de la convocatòria. Abans de començar, Sabata atià la multitud: “Us informem que mentre nosaltres estem aquí, milers de persones encara resten al carrer Pelai, esperant a poder començar a caminar”. Un èxit rotund doncs.

Ara només falta esperar una cosa, que serveixi, que s’escolti la gent i tot això no quedi en fum.

— Saad Aquarius <saadaquarius@hotmail.com> wrote:

“Can anyone explain me the whole dimensions concepts? I want to know how many dimensions are there. What is the limit of knowledge? … A human being can explore
how much? … What are higher and parallel dimensions? … How we shift into 5D after ascension?
.. please reply ..

thank you

Saad !
—————————–

By: Pholus Aquula Xephyr

I’ll start the ball rolling…. Someone else can add on about the 5th and higher dimensions, as well as alternate or parallel ones, and even vibrations… all very cool stuff, but this is the basics….

What are Dimensions?

Some may get annoyed at my explanation, but I am only being VERY, VERY basic…

First, if you are familiar with physics/mathematics…simple physics, that explain our “physical” world…the world in which “human beings” live, is Three Dimensional… we have width (latitude), Length (longitude) and Height (altitude) …. We live and experience a world of shapes, space, scents, colors, textures, sounds, etc. We relate to things in this way.

The word “Dimension” is a Latin word meaning “measured out”. In other words, “space.” A dimension is a measure of space and the dimension is how it relates
to that space.

Our bodies are 3D, our landscape is 3D, our food is 3D, etc. Everything takes up space and shape. This is living in physicality. We understand and relate to things we can feel, see, smell, hear and taste (utilizing our 5 basic senses). We don’t just see Squares, we also see CUBES, Circles can become Spheres, Triangles, Pyramids, etc. That is living in
3D.

So you might say, what is 2D or 1D? We are beyond or above or higher than those dimensions, but basically, consider a “point”, it has no height, no length or width… it is 0D (Zero Dimensions), it doesn’t move, it is it’s totality of existence. Some refer to “God” or “The Source” as the “Zero Point” meaning the point where all Reality Begins or the Source of Everything.

Now consider a “line”. It has length, but that is basically all. That is 1D. It’s interaction with it’s reality is related to the amount of space it takes up.

Now consider a shape like a “square, circle, triangle, etc.” These all have width and length, but no height or depth. If a square or circle was alive and could sense and move it could only perceive you in same way it relates to it’s own reality, as a 2D object. It
could perceive you as having length and width but not as having height/depth… You could stand above the square and it would only relate to the plane of your body, i.e. your foot, as a line blocking it’s path…
the square could go around your foot as though it were an odd shaped 2D object having length and width (longitude & latitude), but it could not move UP (altitude) your body as that would be a NEW dimensional experience for the square. The Square
would need to first realize there WAS an UP dimension before it could learn to relate to it and possibly move UP.

So understanding that we generally relate to our world in 3D we are typically wrapped up in what we perceive from that perspective, and like the “point” who is trapped in the totality of it non dimensional experience or the “square” who limits itself to only
what it thinks it really THERE we often see things as they are presented to us and accept it as “all there is.”

What is 4D? Physicists add “Time” to the 3rd Dimension. So now we have Length, Width, Height (or Depth) and Time. This dimension is also called “Space-Time.”

In general we all do fluctuate in and out of Space-Time, but typically we do not perceive TIME, because time is relative to our physicality. In other words, we perceive time via our 3 dimensional faculties. We see it as linear, or ever moving
forward and with our 3D selves trapped in that movement unable to alter it’s course. We “remember” the past or “contemplate” the future, but we cannot move our 3D selves into the past or the future. We are always in the present no matter what moment of time we think about… we are ALWAYS here, now. The sad thing is, most people don’t truly comprehend that simple fact…. They spend much of their waking life worrying about what MIGHT happen in the future or what horrible things happened in the past, or retreating from things they can’t face by living in their
memories. Our minds ARE capable of perceiving TIME.
Proper control of our thought processes help us to better focus… meditation, relaxation, and understanding all help us to put things in their proper perspectives. The relativity of time is a difficult concept.

Think of this… If you had a twin who was born only seconds after or before you were, you’d generally think of your twin as being the same age (time-wise) as you are, but if you are one side of the Earth and your twin traveled to the other side to live, your twin would then be 1 Day older or younger than you are… Sure you started out as being the same age, but now you are a day different. If your twin travels
back to your side of the planet you are the same age again.

Now imagine if your twin was to travel to the nearest solar system outside of ours; Proxima Centauri, which is about four light-years away. What is a Light-Year? A light-year is a measure of distance. It’s how far light travels in one year. The fastest thing that we know of is light which travels at a speed of 186,000 miles or 300,000 kilometers per second in empty space. To get an idea of how fast this is, light can travel about seven times around Earth in one second!
Astronomers use the speed of light to measure how far away things are in space. They use a unit called the light-year (ly). In one year light travels about 5,880,000,000,000 miles or 9,460,000,000,000 kilometers. That is, about 5.87 trillion miles. Thus, the light from Proxima Centauri is four light-years old when we see it. The light traveling from Proxima Centauri to Earth takes about four light-years to get here. But, at present, we cannot travel as fast as light, so for your twin to travel to the Proxima Centauri (s)he would need to traverse the distance by more conventional means, and the distance plus the speed, plus the length of time it takes is very, very long indeed so you and your twin would be long dead before such a trip could be completed. However, if there was a way to move your twin there without using up time, say, using a transporter which can react in less than a second… then your twin would still now be older than you, because there is still distance between you and your twin and the time it would take to relate to your twin would take, at a minimum, 4 light-years (the time it takes for the light of that start to reach the Earth). Thus you would always have to imagine your Twin being, at the very least 4
light-years older than you, though, (s)he’d really be MUCH, MUCH older, if not already dead, than you are.
That’s way too simplistic, and not even using the proper mathematics… Just understand that as you enter the realm of Time, things work on a different
level of comprehension. You can’t relate to time with your 5 senses or your physicality. For a person in 3D, time just HAPPENS, and happens to them, without any control or resistance on the 3D persons part. A 3D person cannot stop, slow down, speed up or reverse time. However, at times, we can perceive time to have accomplished one of those things. At times it could feel as though it slows down or speeds up or even moves ahead without us realizing it. This is why time is “relative” to the perceiver! It is at moments like this that we actually, unconsciously touch on the 4th Dimension.

So you see, even though we are physically 3D beings, with our mind we do have the capacity to comprehend the 4th Dimension. With that realization, we can then learn how to best relate to it and help it to work for us.

So what is the 5th Dimension? I think I should stop there. I already know some mathematical types will jump all over me for what I’ve said so far… I’m really not trying to teach Physics, only to simplify the concepts in a way that can be comprehensible by even the most unlearned mind.

How many Dimensions are there? Some say 6, some say 11, some say 26 or more.

The basic thing to know is that you should first realize is that you are MORE than your senses, and your capacity to relate to YOUR “Personal Reality.”
First, understand that as a 3D person you live in the NOW… not the Past, and certainly not the Future….
You exist NOW, HERE!

Once you understand THAT you can better control the way you act, rather than “re-act” to your reality. After that you can begin exploring OTHER Dimensions. The explanation of Time was only to help you “Think outside the Box (cube)” as they say… stop being “only 3D” and understand there are OTHER ways to understand reality beyond what we can see, feel, hear, etc. The best way to understand dimensions higher that the 3D is to relate them to “The Spirit” or the Universe.

Add time… step outside of the NOW and see things from a NEW Paradigm and realize that Time is relative. What you see as “happening” doesn’t have to be that way. There are other ways of seeing Time. Don’t be a victim of Time, but rather control time and make it work FOR you. Create your Reality… or Relativity!

Then you can move beyond that to the next Dimension. I’m not that well versed on the higher dimensions, such as those related to the String Theory, etc.

I hope that helps in some concrete way. And remember… We are more than just what is physically perceptible!

EMPHASIS: “We are NOT Human beings on a Spiritual Journey, but RATHER Spiritual beings on a Human Journey”

Pholus Aquula Xephyr
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“We are not human beings on a Spiritual Journey,
but rather spiritual beings on a Human Journey”

ZXing (pronounced “zebra crossing”) is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode reader library implemented in Java. Our goal is to support decoding of QR Codes, Data Matrix, and the UPC family of 1D barcodes. It will provide clients for J2ME, J2SE, and Android.

Why? There are several great readers out there, and there are bits of open-source code already for decoding, but not both at the same time. We want everyone to have access to some great source code to play with, so we decided we’d try an experiment, and open up our in-progress effort. Maybe some of it will be useful to you — maybe you can help improve it.

Will this be the best reader ever? Well we hope it gets quite good. Things are far from perfect, and it’s hard to top some of the great (native-code) readers out there. No, we primarily hope to provide a solid base of code from which people can derive other implementations, and to which people can submit new, better code. If this helps raise the quality of readers everywhere we’ve all done our job.

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Just in time for the holidays, Canon has once again started up it’s semi-annual rebate program. From now until January 13, 2008, you can grab rebates on the following products:
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM (save $125)
Canon EF 85mm f1.2L II USM (save $125)
Canon EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS USM (save $100)
Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM Ultra Wide Angle (save $100)
Canon EF 50mm f/1.2 L USM (save $100)
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM (save $80)
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 L IS USM (save $75)
Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM (save $70)
Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM (save $50)
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM (save $50)
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM (save $40)
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM (save $35)
Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM (save $25)
Canon EF 50mm f1.4 USM (save $40)
Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM (save $30)
Canon Speedlite 580EX II Flash (save $ 50)

Alors que tout le monde attendait une réaction de Canon par rapport aux problèmes d’autofocus qu’ont rencontré certains possesseurs du 1D MKIII, on ne s’attendait par forcement à l’annonce qu’ont fait ces derniers. Il est demandé dans une lettre aux revendeurs, qu’ils renvoient à Canon tout exemplaires encore en stock du modèle en question. Il est également précisé qu’aucune nouvelle livraison ne sera effectuée.  

Reste plus qu’à attendre une nouvelle annonce de Canon quand au futur du MKIII. Si vous comptiez vous l’offrir pour les fêtes de Noël, il ne vous reste plus que le 1Ds MKIII…

Ah oui, va falloir jouer à la lotterie rappeler votre banque aussi. 

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