Samsung Galaxy S3

It seems that when you go walking in a torrential downpour, you should not use Google Maps extensively. I tried that recently and promptly destroyed my trusty Huawei IDEOS X5 phone. Out with the old and in with the new though! I now have a Samsung Galaxy S3 and decided to do a quick photo quality comparison by taking the following photos with my phone, then with my Canon G12 compact camera whilst out cycling on a sunny day in Oslo. The G12 should give a much better quality photo in theory. You be the judge on the final product though …

Maridalsvannet from Samsung Galaxy S3

Maridalsvannet from Canon G12

River from Samsung Galaxy S3

River from Canon G12

I used the “P” setting on the G12 and left the Samsung Galaxy S3 to do it’s thing. I didn’t manage to get the zoom levels and level accurately aligned between the two, so there has been a little cropping to make the images match up.

Edinburgh cemetery

Continuing my apparent obsession with photos of cemeteries, here are some snaps I took at/near a picturesque cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland. I got horridly lost whilst attempting to find Princes St and somehow ended up going totally the wrong direction, up a hill and figuring I may as well make the most of it and wound up with these photos as a result 🙂

WordCamp Edinburgh

In case anyone wasn’t already aware, I’m somewhat obsessed with a piece of software called “WordPress”. My occupation now revolves around WordPress and I voluntarily let it suck up an inordinate amount of my time. I attended a conference called “WordCamp Edinburgh”, which is by far the biggest WordPress conference I’ve ever attended.

I met in person many people who I had only known in the online world for many years. It was amusing asking people what differences they perceived between the “real me” and the “virtual me”. Apparently I am much taller in person than they expected. Having the only video footage of you online be of you standing beside a giant does not help with such perceptions it seems 😉

It was particularly great to finally meet the co-founder of WordPress Mike Little, who it turns out is one of the most modest down to earth people I have ever met.

WordPress founder Mike Little and yours truly outside the conference venue

BuddyPress guru Paul Gibbs and design guru Tammie Lister

Me presenting our talk

Nadia, Simen, Arnstein, Zozela and Magdalini

Admin panel extraordinaire Noel Tock giving his presentation

Core security dude Jon Cave, myself and self-professed screaming code monkey Jeff Ghazally

WordPress founder Mike Little and domain master Donnacha Mac Gloinn outside the conference venue

Fellow Metronite Simen Thorsrud