Yeah, it was on fire, on the third floor of the building, where I live.

The fire didn’t hurt anybody as far as I know, but some of the flats are not safe for inhabiting them. My place is fine and I’m cleaning out the smoke and I have to do a lot of laundry.

I’m alright and managed to grab external HDD, computer and camera, so here are the pictures

emergency exit sign

 When people use your app for the first time, they should intuitively grasp the most important features. The design work doesn’t stop at the first use, though.

Google just doped their designers again and went all in on their new Android Design page. This probably comes as a reaction to the inconsistency of Android Apps and is trying to teach the App devs som common guidelines.

In the legacy of most blogging photographers this title turns up somewhen. I’ve got a 50mm, 1.8f lens now and I’ve started playing around with it.

I’ll have a lot of fun with the very shallow DOF at low f-stop values and in general try to get as much out of my first “digital” prime (no zoom) lens as possible.

I really don’t like pointing the finger, but this company just approaches social media in such a horrible style, that I want you all to see how NOT to do it. First of all, they advertise with social media services. Now, the funny thing is, that they have a facebook link at top and left of their site, with different like amounts, confusing the user? Hell yeah. Second, you can’t “find” them on facebook, because their page-name only directs to nyndesigns.com

On twitter, a couple of messages (often the same) sprouts up by multiple people. What could be going on here, is that a bot with some random people-stock pictures is tweeting all their pre-defined news messages over and over again, none of them responds when you tweet at them, neither the @nyndesigns account. I assume these are blind bot accounts, because they tweet the same messages over and over again, trying to over-over-advertise for the posts and services of nyndesigns.com

The funny thing is, that Nyndesigns advertists with a message like:

Professional web consultation services @nyndesigns Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Which does not add up with their behaviour on social media at all.

ground rules they are breaking:

1. Be available for questions and correspondence
2. Don’t repeat yourself
3. Be authentic

Below you see the confusing different amounts of likes on their facebook page:

Here’s a potential list of Nyndesigns potential fake twitter accounts:

• https://twitter.com/#!/denahall8
• https://twitter.com/#!/katherinejtaylo
• https://twitter.com/#!/EliseBynum
• https://twitter.com/#!/katherinejtaylo
• https://twitter.com/#!/AllieHofer
• https://twitter.com/#!/DavidRCastillo
• https://twitter.com/#!/SarahCWoo
• https://twitter.com/#!/haroldiglesia14
• https://twitter.com/#!/calvinscholl12
• https://twitter.com/#!/JuanMckeon
• https://twitter.com/#!/edithccole
• https://twitter.com/#!/sarahgraha
• https://twitter.com/#!/NathanEGrable
• https://twitter.com/#!/kathleenbryan14
• https://twitter.com/#!/williamallen12
• https://twitter.com/#!/lorikthomas
• https://twitter.com/#!/johnnymoylan12
• https://twitter.com/#!/ryanuryan
• https://twitter.com/#!/charlesboard12

and many more, able to be found on: https://twitter.com/#!/search/@nyndesigns

UPDATE: I just filed a spam report on twitter.com about this matter, including the information above.

I’ve today pulled myself together and went to the magic lantern wiki, an alternative firmware for Canon DSLRs to improve their HD-video functionality. I thought, okay, no matter how hard this is, I will script, debug and bite my way through the process of patching this. Turns out, you just have to download an archive, unpack it on your SD-card, put it into the camera and hit the upgrade firmware button in the camera menu. Easy going. Looking forward to explore and test all the additional functionality like adjusting the audio levels, zebra lines, manual ISO and white balance settings.

Apart from that I’ve taken a couple of long exposure pictures the last nights: