In and out of focus

April 18, 2007

Hello friends and followers, I have finally uploaded all of my old tutorials so rest assure that you won’t be snowed in like that again. ^_^ From now on its back to how it should be, abeit with a few differences in style.

Now that the blog is at its prime(content wise) I decided that I should probably try and advertise the blog a little as the content is great, I just need readers. So thats what I’ve been doing. So far it seems to have paid off, my subscribers and hits have risen quite a way.

So the plan from now on is to make my blog much more interesting so that people will actually stick around. So you’ll notice the improvement of quality in entries from now on. So lets get started.

Holidays

The holidays have been fine although kinda different, I haven’t seen much of my friends but have been spending more time with the family. The first weekend we had easter which was great. Chris bought me one of those 100s and 1000s eggs. On Sunday night we had something down at Woonsy which was good fun. Although I think we need to move away from the PCs a bit and return to the consoles. We’ve also been doing some reno work out the back so I’ve had to help out there a bit too.

I had to go into Uni twice last week(which sucks as it takes 2hrs either way) to hand up an assignment. But it was worth it as I finally decided what to do with that excess money lying around. I bought my first digital SLR camera and what a bargin too.

I bought the Sony Alpha100 in the twin lens kit (18-70mm and 75-300mm) for $AUS1391(not including $100 cashback), I saved over $400 off the RRP and here’s how:

-the store had 13% for that day only
-their price was cheaper than the RRP
-Sony are offering $100 cashback for this month only

I also got to enter a competition to win more Sony gear as I bought the camera.

I am so thrilled with the purchase, I love the camera and especially that 300mm lens. I just need to figure out what settings are best for what conditions that is ISO, aperture, shutter speed etc.

On Friday we had rellies for Sydney come down, we also had a family BBQ on the Saturday night with them. One of them bought me a photography magazine which was very considerate.

For the rest of the week I’ve been working/studying/playing games and plugging my blog. I’ve got a few days of work up ahead which will keep me busy.

A few links

I just wanted to take a bit of time to link out to a few good blog entries(about blogging) that I’ve read this week.

Why I like/dislike blogging

Why you need to be a renaissance blogger

I really enjoyed reading these two entries, I hope you do too.

The other plug that I wanted to do this week is one to an affiliate site of NRX domain, I was browsing thru their wares and noticed this page that has a small collection of old TV adverts from The Legend of Zelda series.

Old adverts

The first advert for the original Zelda is absolutely hillarious, so tragic, just sad, here’s the Youtube stream: