Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Two things I liked about Christmas

Christmas brings with it lots of new movies, happiness, joy and snow. However this Christmas there were two things that I really fancied:-

  1. Aleks's Controllable Christmas lights was a really good site that lets you view a house from three camera's with inflatable homer, santa, elmo, a message board and lights and the fun thing is that you can control the items in the web cam feeds using simple controls on the web page. Really awesome and neat idea. No wonder its raising lots of money for Celiac Research. I wish his kids a brighter future.
  2. The dudes at the Planetary society have set up a page that allows you too to submit your name, email address etc to be flown to Mars for the upcoming Phoenix mission. It even lets you take a print of a certificate. Cool stuff. It can be found here.
So this Christmas has really been about useless but fun stuff, unless you believe in aliens. Just the way we like it.

In case you guys want to know where I've been recently, we'll my teaching duties at GIK have kept me really busy. I even have a web page at www.giki.edu.pk/go/IT. You may want to check it out. And we had an end of semester party for my compilers students. Pics at http://s119.photobucket.com/albums/o124/iqqi84/GIKI/TASHIP/Comp_Lab. Apart from that all is smooth sailing.

Need to get a decent digital camera fast under 20K(PKRs). Any recommendations???

Looking forward to hearing from you guys. See you around. Take care & seasons greetings. Looking forward to blogging again on or before Eid.

2 comments:

alekkomar said...

Thanks for the nice writeup on my Controllable Christmas Lights for Celiac Disease and mentioning the charity aspect.

Best Wishes and Merry Christmas to 'ya,
alek

Usman Ilyas said...

Cool ... yaar digital camera for under 20k would be stiff ... i don't think youll be able to find a decent slr under 20k so you will have to go for point and shoot cameras ... i guess look into sony dsc or nikon coolpix ... before you buy do check for camera reviews