Jingle on Wire

Monday, December 29th, 2008 :: 11:21 pm

Jingle Bells on Wire

Shutter speed: 1/125s / Aperture: f/5.0 / Focal: 200mm / ISO: 400

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 :: 3:45 pm

Everywhere you go! So far it looks like we’ll have a white Christmas, though quite a bit more snow than anyone expected!

Merry Christmas, Joyeux Noël, Feliz Navidad, 聖誕節快樂 to all my blog readers and your families! Hope you have a safe, warm, and wonderful holiday season wherever you are! :-)

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Shutter speed: 1/800s / Aperture: f/4.5 / Focal: 16mm / ISO: 100

Icy Dusk

Monday, December 22nd, 2008 :: 11:45 pm

Icy Jericho Pond with snow

Shutter speed: 1/100s / Aperture: f/7.1 / Focal: 18mm / ISO: 200

Flakes

Sunday, December 21st, 2008 :: 12:27 pm

Just another snowy day in Vancouver

Falling snowflakes

Shutter speed: 1/320s / Aperture: f/6.3 / Focal: 138mm / ISO: 400

New Speakers! Creative T20

Saturday, December 20th, 2008 :: 5:42 pm

I guess these are considered my present to myself this Christmas, haha.

I’ve been looking for speakers to replace my original ones that were just generic ones and sounds pretty muffled, and one that fits the bill since I use it mainly for music and movies. Originally I was looking at a 5.1 setup in my room, but after finding out that in order to use them with my laptop I would need to buy an extra PCI Express card, I quickly gave up on that. Then I looked at some 2.1 speakers, but some reviews weren’t as good for them.

Last week Futureshop had a sale on the Creative GigaWorks T20 for $64.99 with an original price of $129.99. Many reviews online spoke highly of these speakers even though they were only 2.0 with no subwoofer. I found that Best Buy had these selling at $127.99, and that they were sold out in all of the Vancouver or Richmond locations, the only one that carried it was in Burnaby (Price Match!). The next day I headed over to the Best Buy in Burnaby and successfully bought these for $65 including tax with price matching!

I have to say these are pretty good with good bass and low distortion at when turned up high :-)

The traditional box shot!

Creative Gigaworks T20

Shutter speed: 1/50s / Aperture: f/2.8 / Focal: 18mm / ISO: 400

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