A bluetooth watch done right… almost

Posted on March 25, 2011 by etj

For a long time I’ve wanted a watch that would sync its time with my other devices with a built in clock like say my phone and computer. Maybe it’s just me, but I find it annoying when all my different watches show a different time. Which one is right!?!

I’ve found it hard to understand why nobody has come up wit a clever way to fix this. So far the closest I’ve come to seeing a fix is my iPhone’s watch being synced to my mac’s. That’s pretty neat, but then what about all the other ones?

Seems like I might soon have a choice in wrist watches at least as Casio will be introducing a G-shock Bluetooth watch.

Not only does the watch connect to your phone and sync with its watch but it’ll also sync with the phone’s alarms as well as alert you of incoming calls and text messages not only by sound but vibration too… how awesome is that!. Well it sounds pretty awesome to me.

So what’s the catch you might ask… Well it seems it’ll be designed for bluetooth 4.0 devices and I bet it wont work very well with my iPhone (which only has bluetooth 3.0 – FOF!) and most importantly…it’s a G-shock!

Oh well at least it’s a step in the right direction… a step in the right direction after all!

Supermoon

Posted on March 20, 2011 by etj

I just realized that tonight is supermoon night, so I decided to head out with my camera and tripod to get some shots of the moon. What I failed to realize was, that the moon was so high in the night sky when I headed out, that even if it is 14% larger than usual, it wasn’t visible at all. So instead I decided to play around with longer exposure on a couple of scenes. There’s been no post-production done on these photos. Might try that a little later though. But for now please enjoy these three shots.

Fra Experiment

On and about the supermoon. Seems the moon sets at around 5 tonight. I guess I’ll go have a look at it before I go to sleep.

Timelapse 2

Posted on March 16, 2011 by etj

Here’s a follow up on my last post about shooting timelapse videos with my iPhone.

While randomly surfing the net I stumbled upon this timelapse video of Sleeping Beauty’s castle at Disneyland.

Timelapse

Posted on March 11, 2011 by etj

As you might have noticed if you’ve read some of my former posts I have a fondness for tilshift photography. Another thing I’ve always enjoyed very much is timelapse videos. I think it’s so cool, when you get to see construction of a building condensed into a few seconds or minutes.

In that spirit I wanted to do something similar but never quite had the patience to do it manually, or the know-how to do it with a program. But now thanks to the wonders of technology… there’s an app for that on my iPhone!
Sp today I started experimenting with it. Below are the results… not extremely convincing I admit, but a start nonetheless.

Hope you enjoy them.

Writing in Danish

Posted on February 18, 2011 by etj

I came to a sudden realization this evening. Considering that I’m working with communication and PR in Denmark, and generally do all my professional writing in Danish, I haven’t really done any of my personal writing in Danish for a very long time.

So in order to get a bit more practice I’ll start doing a bit of writing in Danish here. Therefore I’ve made a new category called Dansk. That’s gonna be for all the stuff I try out in Danish and anything related to that – this post included!

Any feedback you might have to these posts in Danish would be greatly appreciated.

/Esben

Interior design issues

Posted on February 8, 2011 by etj

My room is still very basic in layout. A bed (which needs another mattress on top to be comfortable), a desk (which is to big), an uncomfortable chair, a relatively roomy wardrobe and a small cabinet.

So far the only thing that’s really filled up is the wardrobe. And it’s not filled exclusively with clothes. Half is filled with books, small storage boxes and my many bags.
My table is about half a size to large and the cabinet is basically empty. So I’ve decided it’s about time I get some changes happening.

Planning on getting a smaller table, though not entirely sure how small I can go and still have it be useful. I’ve seen a table that’s 73 cm wide, which might be nice… but also might be to small. Anyone has any experience with that size for a table? Other one I’m looking at is 120 cm, which might be a bit more feasible.

So on to the Cabinet. This is the real issue. I want to replace it with a shelving unit of some sort.
I’ve seen this in IKEA, which I think is really cool. Unfortunately it’s just about 80 cm to wide.

IKEA Nybygge shelves

So then I started thinking about something more along the lines of this one from Muuto. The issue with that one is the price. With the basic modules I’m contemplating it would be around 4000 DKK

Muuto - Stacked shelves

So if anyone has any alternative or creative ideas I’d love to hear them. The shelves need to hold a stereo, two speakers, a picture frame, an alarm clock and some coffee table books.

On work and being specific

Posted on February 7, 2011 by etj

I just had a pretty interesting conversation with Mark regarding work, life and getting things done.

He made me realize that whenever I think I’m being specific in my planning I am actually being very vague. As an example, I am currently working on developing Frivilligcenter Netvirket’s communication strategy. As that’s a relatively broad task I’ve started making daily and weekly to-do lists… only issue is they aren’t really to-do lists, they’re just statements of what I am working on – the communication strategy!

So basically I need to improve my ability to see the smaller tasks that make up the assignment. That’s apparently a lot harder for me than I thought but awareness is the first step.

Tumblr and cofee

Posted on August 23, 2010 by etj

The other day I started a tumblr blog/site/whatever.

The reason behind it was this: I’ve become less prone to write anything on this blog, yet I still have things I wanna share on an everyday basis (not just twits and facebook updates), and I realized that tumblr is quite a good platform for exactly that.

You can find my one here: esben.tumblr.com/

I also decided to start a new “project” with Mark. Seeing as we always go out for coffee and often end up getting a pretty lousy espresso based drink, we decided that we’re gonna review not just coffee places (cafés, restaurants, homes) but also the individual baristas, as they are ultimately the ones that make a good or bad espresso!

If you think it’d be fun having a look it’s here: coffeeCPH.tumblr.com/

Photo only attempt

Posted on August 10, 2010 by etj

Just photo

Photos from iPhone 4