Monthly Archives: June 2008

2008 Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal

By misbah | Published: June 10, 2008
Last year’s Canadian Grand Prix included Felipe Massa and Giancarlo Fisichella getting black flagged, Lewis Hamilton winning his first race and Robert Kubica in a spectacular crash. The 2008 race was completely different. Massa finished the race… in fifth place, Lewis Hamilton’s stock plummeted and going from zero-to-hero Robert Kubica notched up the first win [...]
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3G iPhone priced from $199

By misbah | Published: June 9, 2008
Apple nerds, mark your iCal-endars! Ending all the hype and speculation, Apple announced today at WWDC that the 3G iPhone will launch on July 11th priced from $199 for the base 8gb model and $299 for the 16gb version. The other important piece of the puzzle were the visuals. It will be available in two [...]
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When We Left Earth – HD-TV in the 60′s?

By misbah | Published: June 9, 2008
Yesterday, as I was watching Discovery Channel’s new series When We Left Earth, I noticed something peculiar. The test, launch and space footage from NASA was in HD and in 16:9 ratio (without pillar-boxing). I started to wonder if they cropped the top and bottom of the footage (beam-boxing??). After doing some research, it looks [...]
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I am no Jackson Pollock, and so can you!

By misbah | Published: June 3, 2008
I’ll be the first to admit, I’ve never been a big fan of Jackson Pollock, but can appreciate his message and approach. Never having the opportunity to try his methods before, I could not really see his challenge of finding the right amount of spacial balance and color choice. But thanks to the internet and [...]
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Partial Digg Outage

By misbah | Published: June 2, 2008
Digg was partially down today (June 2nd, 2008), “…for a brief period, while we make some changes.” The extent of the outage was anyone hitting Digg with a “www” in the URL got that error page, but without the “www” it loaded fine. I doubt this was a planned activity, but rather someone fiddling around [...]
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