Many of you know that I fancy photography and being the geek I am I like to play around with photo editing software as well. So having had a total bust on a photowalk today due to not so nice rainy/wet snowy weather I decided to pull out one of my all time favorite photos and play around a little bit.
This is is a classic black and white with a tad bit of color coming through, I’ve done a lot of these over the years and it’s always an exercise in patience and calm nerves and I find it surprisingly relaxing it to zoom in and out on the photo and select pixel by pixel the area I want to “expose as color”.
I think I’ll be ordering this one as well to frame and put on the wall!
Today’s show is all about taking chances and is a sequel to our last episode on “change”. Risk is there but not always bad, in fact there is no bad just degrees of positive!
Today’s show is all about change and the things happening around us, dealing with, accepting and realizing that no change is bad but some change is better than others.
3:26 pixelbase: hey Craig
13:48 ccmehil: So about 30 mins to go topic today is “change”
14:03 ccmehil: another 15 mins or so
14:12 profi: hi
14:12 ccmehil: another 8 minutes until we go live
14:13 profi: my first time
14:14 ccmehil: Welcome to the show then
14:14 profi: tnx
14:15 profi: I am an ex coleeague of ttrapp and thorstenster
14:15 ccmehil: Where you from?
14:15 profi: western part of germany
14:16 ccmehil: Got it – broadcasting from near Walldorf
14:17 ccmehil: 3 mins to live – topic is “change” so if you are in the middle of it speak up
14:22 pixelbase: those long winter evenings must fly by…
14:23 profi: hmmm
14:25 jspath55: G’day. Change? Never stops.
14:28 profi: argh, umts connection sucks cu next week
14:28 oliver: Hey Craig, back on your Mac?
14:28 jspath55: Last year’s original goal was $500, iirc
14:29 skeohan: Hello all
14:29 pixelbase: what about a challenge, Craig. You keep on going until we’re at $10K
14:30 pixelbase: to WDF?
14:31 skeohan: Change: Swapped to Comcast voice two days ago, and it was an unqualified disaster
14:31 jspath55: @sue LOL
14:31 abesh: Wassup ???
14:31 skeohan: Oh, YOU can LOL. We had no internet for 2 days and the kids were all in my face (no xbox, no facebook, no itunes)
14:33 jspath55: @sue I wasn’t laughing at you, I was laughing with you…
14:33 skeohan: Sure Jim. Except I wasn’t laughing.
14:33 skeohan: @ccmehil away from family during the week? No change for my husband, he’s been away for 12 years now. it’s a change when he is home during the week!
14:34 jspath55: @Sue – check your twitter DM.
14:34 abesh: @sue @Jim LOL
14:34 pixelbase: important thing is that you embrace and face change, but you also have to ackowledge when things are not working out.
14:34 skeohan: @jspath55, ug.
14:35 abesh: I have a lot of change in my wallet
14:35 skeohan: It’s been hardest on my older son – who remembers when Dad was home during the week.
14:35 skeohan: @pixelbase you are right, of course, but ‘Change is Hard’
14:36 abesh: For me the *weirdest* part has been working from home….
14:36 se38_uwe: Book also avaikable in German: “Die Mäuse Strategie”. Have read it 2 yrs. ago. Great
14:36 abesh: It is not that prevalent here… and I’ve been working from home since I joined….
14:36 pixelbase: @skeohan absolutely. I meant that it’s not doing it for change’s sake.
14:37 abesh: also the transition from being a techie to consultant and architect was difficult for me personally….
14:37 pixelbase: I’m leanring iPhone Dev at the moment. A big change for me.
14:37 abesh: From coding to talking via excel sheet and powerpoints….
14:37 skeohan: I am afraid to try a Kindle or Nook because of change.
14:37 RichHeilman: going from working at office to working at home was an awesome change for me.
14:38 jspath55: We’re merging.
14:38 abesh: Aaah I see @ccmehil wearing the Rackspace T-Shirt… Same pinch
14:38 oliver: Looking forward to a real home office workplace I’M going to have in a couple of month.
14:39 skeohan: @ccmehil – ever done the trick, with participants, where you ask them to cross their arms. Then change to have opposite arm on top. People struggle.
14:39 pixelbase: Change is a lot about control, too. The changes that are out of your control are the scary ones.
14:39 abesh: absolutely.. I WANT A NEXUS ONE
14:39 skeohan: N
14:39 skeohan: NOT Me!
14:40 oliver: Going to change to a new iPhone when it comes out. Hopefully a huge change and in lots of aspects no change at all.
14:41 skeohan: you folks are all trying to cross your arms aren’t you
14:41 oliver: Totally unoffical: going to move with the familiy to Berlin. Leaving all friends here in NRW. Big change for me.
14:42 ChrisW: I’ve worked at home for 5 years now, and it was great at first. But no I feel somewhat isolated and going back to the WDF office last week was SO GOOD! Contact with humans!
14:42 skeohan: @ccmehil I can tell you more in mail, it is a good group activity to demonstrate change
14:42 abesh: @oliver awesome
14:42 pixelbase: @oliver so we can all kip at your place for TechEd Berlin then
14:43 pixelbase: I’m going to try 2 kinds of potatoes in my veg gardenthis year. That’s a change, too
14:44 abesh: let me guess, this time it’s microsoft sponsoring hacker night ?
14:44 skeohan: Sapphire and Techeds are changing too, timing, etc
14:45 skeohan: Meditation? Valium? Alcohol?
14:45 ChrisW: Jaegermeister sponsors Hacker Night!! I still have the photos!
14:46 skeohan: @ChrisW +1
14:46 se38_uwe: the biggest change is becoming a dad
14:46 oliver: We’ll see Change always means unceitainty but that’s live.
14:47 skeohan: I like Craig’s approach – evaluate…
14:47 skeohan: @se38 – try the first 9 months for change! JK
14:47 oliver: @se38_uwe second that!
14:48 pixelbase: thanks, have a good weekend.
14:48 jspath55: You too, Craig, et al!
14:48 oliver: Bye Craig, all. Have a good one!
14:48 abesh: et tu Craig
14:51 ccmehil: Thanks Everyone!
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