Joining the moblogging mob

Well, I'm officially a moblogger. Just signed up for a flickr.com account, and set it up to automatically post blog entries to the moblog page here via the Blogger API.

So it goes like this : take photo from the Nokia 6230i in portrait mode (smaller), send e-mail with the image attachment to the special email address provided by Flickr, add a subject with comments in the message body and send it out, which goes out via GPRS through M1's MiWorld SMTP service. The email ends up on flickr.com's server, which posts it on their website as well as on the moblog account here.

As for the photo, *shrug* it's that Giordano umbrella at my office cubicle again ... :) Goofing off at work? Hardly. Waiting for the builds to complete. *And* I have to come back to this very cubicle again tomorrow afternoon (which is a Saturday) to continue work.

(2005-07-01 19:37:58 SGT) [Musings] Permalink

Office space

Worked late yesterday, so during a short break, I took some photos of the office with my new Nokia 6230i (yes I know, it's already been like 3 years into the camera-phone party, lol). Check out the photo gallery.

See, nothing to shout about. Just a big room with the R&D team in the middle (you can see my umbrella hanging there in some of the shots if you look carefully), QA on the left and the solutions team is on the right. The rooms, of course, belong to those folks who have "Director" or "Chief Architect", etc. in their title.

Other notes - the 6230i's 1.3-megapixel camera seems adequate enough for casual photos. Automatic white balance (AWB) is pretty okay and actually seems to cope slightly better than my Canon A510 to the ubiquitous fluorescent lighting which tends to look greenish in photos (with the A510, I use manual white balance to get a more precise setting). Like all camera phones out there, the lens is really too small and hence image quality will suffer under inadequate light, but in sunlight or brightly-lit rooms like the office environment, it's okay. Good thing is - with something like this, you have a camera everywhere you go, and transfer to the home PC is really quite easy via a USB Bluetooth adaptor. There's a 64 MB MMC memory card in there (which came bundled in the box), and even after loading in a bunch of MP3's and a couple of J2ME midlet apps, the counter says there's enough room for over 200 photos, so memory-wise that's fine too.

(2005-07-01 10:18:16 SGT) [Musings] Permalink Comments [1]

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