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I’ve pulled the trigger. I am committing myself to this for 2010. I am going to take 52 self portraits this year, one each week, starting with this one:

I really want to put the T1i to good use, and I think this is a great way to do it. I hope to develop my photography skills throughout the year. I was inspired to do self portraits, rather than just general photographs, by Lauren Randolph and her 365 in 2009.

I have wanted to do Project 365 for the past couple of years, and I have failed miserably at each attempt (like this one). My failures were mostly rooted in forgetfulness and a lack of creativity. We’ll see how this goes. I think I have a much better chance at succeeding, needing to only come up with about 1/7 of the photos needed for Project 365.

Wish me luck!

Between tasks, I decided to join in on the fun this morning. So, here is my gratuitous picture of myself at work (with TweetDeck on my laptop – follow me @markomni):

Yeah, it’s not a good picture, but it certainly is gratuitous.

Also, no more javascript injection on my blog

I saw this post on rachelleb.com about a Flickr meme. It’s simple to do: use your answers to each of the following questions as searches in Flickr. For each search, pick one image from only the first page of results. Paste the URL to the Flickr photo page for that image into Mosaic Maker. Produce a 3×4 mosaic of your photo picks, and publish it somewhere. Enjoy!

The questions:

1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. What is your favorite drink?
7. What is your dream vacation?
8. What is your favorite dessert?
9. What do you want to do when you grow up?
10. Who/ what do you love most in life?
11. Choose one word that describes you?
12. What is your Flickr name?

A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by WOM World via Flickr. Colin, the person who contacted me, explained that WOM World was a Nokia-sponsored site that tracks Nokia buzz on the web, and that they also run a trial program where they send out Nokia devices for testing and review. He offered me a 3-week trial of a Nokia N95 8GB. He wrote:

The N95 8GB North American version is one of the latest releases and we’re seeing social media users like you would be interested in having the device for three weeks to put it through its paces.

It has the same spec as the regular N95 8GB, so; 5MP Carl Zeiss lens camera with auto-focus, full GPS, MP3 player with integrated player keys, dual sliding action, WIFI, etc. But this version comes with updated software and full US 3G network support. In addition to being on Symbian, which means it’s open to literally thousands of applications, everything from Google maps to Twitter.