News for December 2011

Leslie Portrait



Leslie2, originally uploaded by opentuning.

This is a shot of Leslie – one of our models we had the pleasure of shooting at our Smithsonian Portrait class.
She’s gorgeous so it was easy. Light makes a wold of difference.
Hope to have the chance of working with her again.

Posted: December 12th, 2011
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Why Google still kicks Bing’s ass

While working today I had to edit some code and because I’m not a programmer (duh) I had to get a little reminder for a snipped of html code that will not show up in the browser but that will be there when someone looks at the code. It’s basically used to exclude some elements that you don’t need but might need later so you don’t want to delete but you just want to hide.

Or to include snide comments. Programmers are famously snark-y people.

So I did a search for “comment it out”. The default search engine at work is Bing (brilliant partner marketing strategy by them) and this is what came up:

 

Did the same thing in Google and this is what came up:

 

See Bing? I don’t need you to make decisions for me because your decisions suck. I can make up my own mind, thank you very much.

Thank you Google for figuring it out that what I’m looking for was the snipped of code and giving me relevant results without trying to decide for me that I’m interested in Will.i.am’s featuring Nicki Minaj’s Check it out video. Really?? Blah.

Posted: December 1st, 2011
Categories: Humor, Technology
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