.farshid sedghi’s personal blog.

Took my new Nikon D80 for a spin during sea fair this weekend…here are some of the results…

Seafair - August 2007

Most of time I share about fun stuff/sites that apply only to US, so here is one for my Swedish peops. Hot off the press: Google maps now fully covers Sweden, including routing, local info such as restaurants, banks etc. Here is an example that was not possible until today. As I understand it, all info comes from the yellow pages site among others.

There is a patch to speed up Outlook 2007 performance. Go get it as it does not get pushed out through Windows Update (at least not yet). [via Scott Hanselman]

Yep, yet another meaningless test that takes 15 sec. And I turned out to be:

Click on the image and try the test yourself. And here is a link to stats on which characters people that have taken the test have turned out to be.

A few short takes for future reference:

Housing maps - A combination of Craigslist and Google maps, for viewing rental and for-sale listings across the US of A. You Send It - Upload up to 1 Gb and have someone download it. no registration required. Get visa to Australia online GSM Frequencies - Check to see if your GSM phone will work in the country you are travelling to.

I am sure you have read about the website freeipods.com. If not, basically the site is about :

• Sign up by creating a free account.
• Buying one of the offers from a list of sponsored offers (from 5 DVDs for $ 0.49/each to online fax account to teeth whitening stuff).
• Convince 10 friends of yours to do the same

And a couple of months later you get your iPod. When I heard (a year ago mabye) about this initially, I thought, what a lame idea for scam, surely no one buys this story. Anyways, the other week I got an email from a friend in the states asking me to sign up for a FREE Mac Mini. Again, I thought my friend either has a virus of some kind that sent out this email or he has been suckered into it. Another few days later, I got the same email from another friend in the states (these two friends know each other as well, so I am guessing the first email went to him as well). So I did what I did the first time, pressed the delete button faster than I could think and went on with my life.

Today, I got an email from both of them, telling me that that got their free Mac mini!!! I guess if you think about it, this would be possible since each of these offers makes you plus 10 of your friends buy stuff for around $10-20 which comes down to $110-$220 before they have to cough up a mac. And add to that the price they charge their sponsors to get a spot. Still, a Mac mini is about $485 so it doesn’t add up quite, but what to do when people do get their Mac minis?

Reading a bunch of blogs, I have seen that Google’s AdSense program is popping up like mushrooms on my favorite sites and since I wanted to be part of this and don’t miss out on earning 2 cents a month I decided to join and see what the big deal is. So now you can enjoy a commercial look of my blog/site. For those of you who are using feed readers, have a look at http://farshid.sedghi.org to see how I sold my site to host ads. Cant wait to cash in maybe a dollar in, oh say maybe 6 months, if I am lucky.

Surely, most of us have wondered at some point what kind of file extension we are. It made me laugh to see I am .doc based on what the description. Have a go and see who you are…still have the invites…wonder if that’s because no one is reading this blog…