Vox Hunt: Photography – Favorite Photo Of Me

Show us your favorite photo of yourself.

My new hairdo!!!

Ahhhh… hmmm, I'm not photogenic… AT ALL. So I have to pay for people to doll me up and provide professional lighting and equipment and take pics of me to look half decent in a photo.

Here's a group of such pics taken waaaay back in 1996. The one pictured here is a more current favorite photo.

Update: I guess the Facebook album is only accessible to FB members…. so I created a Twango channel as well. Hmm, I guess I could have uploaded them to Vox? Or Flickr? Ahhh so many choices…

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QotD: What My Name Means

What does your name mean and why did your parents choose it for you? 
Submitted by mommy2two.

My Chinese name is 怡因 (I-Yin). The first character, 怡, means joy or happiness. The second character, 因, means reason or cause. So I'm supposed to be the reason for happiness? Whose happiness?

As for Carol, it came about later… started off with my mom loving the name / word "Coral". But, ah, I didn't want to be thought of as wriggly sea creatures, and Carol has the musical connotation which I liked, so that's how I ended up with it…

I also found a couple old posts on how to pronounce my chinese name and how cybette came about.

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New S60 bloggers: PhoneBoy, LonelyBob and I

This is the "project" that I think I mentioned in an earlier post. I'm now an official S60 blogger, along with LonelyBob and PhoneBoy!

LonelyBob and I are blogging for the S60 Multimedia Blog, while PhoneBoy joins Phil over at See Into S60.

• PhoneBoy: Writing for the S60 Blogs
• LonelyBob: New S60 Bloggers
• cybette: I'm an S60 Blogger

Here are our first posts:

• Animated Gif Screensaver on S60 3rd Edition FP1
• S60 (Multimedia) handset usage tips
• Extreme Convergence

That reminds me, I need to finish up my next post asap! See ya'll over at S60 blogs (don't forget to subscribe)!

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QotD: Also Known As

What's in a screen/user name? Tell us how you found yours.
Submitted by Bill.

I'm back! I've quite a few posts in the works. Let's start off with a QotD.

How did Cybette come about? Back in 1994, my first year in college… (did I just give away my age? oh what the heck)… I discovered IRC. At first I rotated among a few nickname like Cyborg and Zildjian… but people would assume I'm a guy, plus they are not unique enough and caused frequent "nick collisions". Then I met a guy online and we started dating (but that's another story…). Anyway his nickname was Cyberbabe, and I switched to using Cyberbabette. However it was kinda long and some servers didn't like that, so I trimmed its midsection and ended up with Cybette. Been using it ever since!

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QotD: Repeat After Me…

How have people mispronounced your name?  How is it supposed to sound? 
Submitted by Lorie.   

I don't think most people have problems with my english name. It's my Chinese name (Iyin) that some people have trouble with… I've been called Aiyen, Ian, Lyn (??)… it should be pronouced (if you know hanyu pinyin): yi2 yin1 (with intonation). It's one thing if you're not a Chinese speaker to have trouble with the pronounciation, but when my grade 5 Chinese teacher struggled with my name for a whole year, now that's… … (I'm speechless)

Another one is my nickname (cybette). It's [sī'bĕt], based on very little IPA that I know (hope I got the notation right). Basically, it's "cy" in cyber, followed by "bet". Not See-Betty, Sigh-bee-tee, Sigh-Better, Cybet-tay or variations thereof!

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