Micheal Espinola Jr's Blog

A brilliant montage of 100 wonderful movies featuring a spoken word countdown from 100 to 1.

The results are in, and J.D. Power and Associates has once again emerged unscathed after throwing themselves into the fray of customer satisfaction surveys to bring us their 2007 Digital Camera Satisfaction Study.

If you are looking to buy a digital camera of any caliber, I recommend performing a comparison against this satisfaction study.

On a personal note, I’m as pleased as Punch to see that in the DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) category; the Nikon D Series has swept all five ratings categories, getting the highest marks possible in each!

Now I feel better about spending all the money I did upgrading from my D70 to my latest D200. Even with the D300 on the horizon, the over-all expense and surprising low effective pixels count (12.3mp) for this class of camera keep it out of my range of desire – at least for now. Not discounting the other technological advancements (e.g. full-frame (35mm) sensor!) of the new D3/D300 series, but I’m very happy with my D200 – and apparently so are many others!

Maybe I’ll upgrade again if I figure out how to make a profit with my interest in photography. But right now its just another one of my expensive toys that I’m occasionally able to impress others with.

Right now I’m still struggling with “Phase 2 ” of my Underpants Gnomes three-phase business plan.

Thanks Stephen!

Being a Libra ; if I was to believe in astrological influences (which I don’t); and if based on such a predisposition felt that many things in life should be performed and/or viewed with fair and equal balance ( which I do anyhow, – and shame on you Fox News for perpetrating a lie ); I believe that the same should be held true to the balance of the aesthetic visual in juxtaposition to the corporeal reality of the gadgets that I as tech-geek covet.

I offer a recent observation:  Hey chief.  Yea you – the geek with the Zune MP3 player.  The next time you’re looking at yourself in the mirror to make sure you look all k-rad kewl before heading out and about, take a look at your Zune too:

There are lots of reflective surfaces in the world.  Maybe you should leave that thing at home, or at least keep it in your pocket (always sage advice anyhow).

And no one in the development/production process noticed this?!

After reading that the FBI’s Secret Spyware Tracks Down Teen Who Made Bomb Threat, I tried to look into this latest form of Policeware – yet found nothing. Feeling special, I decided to start a Wikipedia article detailing what I had found so far in the news and court transcripts.

I look forward to learning more about this latest form of government surveillance-ware as the news develops and conspiracies will surely follow. Scary thing though is that it’s a form of electronic surveillance that does not require a court order.

CIPAV: Computer and Internet Protocol Address Verifier