Port Jefferson, NY

Washington

Warsaw

Holidays

They say a picture is worth 1.000 words, so here is a 2.000.000-words-worth collection of pictures I took in the nicest holidays I had for a very long time.

Disclaimer. The quality Picasa displays online is absolutely horrible, for which I apologize. I usually scale down the pictures myself at reasonable quality, but this seems to no longer help — Picasa now scales them one more time and compresses them so much it destroys them. One thing that might work is downloading the albums you want to see as a whole using the Picasa client for Windows.

Cambridge

Smile Shutter

Found out about a funny feature in some of the new cameras from Sony: the Smile Shutter. It can measure the smile of your subjects and take a picture only they are properly smiling.

I wonder whether I can go over 100% One of my friends has such a camera, so we will give it a try soon. Hope it doesn’t explode

I also wonder about the future evolution of this feature; what is it going to do? Detect fake smiles? sarcastic smiles? evil smiles? wistful smiles? retail smiles? stewardess smiles? …

(I found out about this feature from the blog of a friend)

Pittsburgh

Amsterdam

POPL 2008 in San Francisco

FOSAD 2007

Some pictures

Romania 2007

Old Friends

 

CSF 2007

(Some pictures from Venice)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Photos from the Half Marathon