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Couple of weeks back I, along with 2 of my friends have visited Mirpur National Zoo, in Dhaka after a long time. In one of the lakes I was able to find 3 pelicans. Two of them were quite close to each other.
The third one was caught in my camera when it spread its wings.
A small bird (probably a king fisher) was standing on the frame. Suddenly it decided to fly.
![The Pelican Family and the Kingfisher [EXPLORED]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7155/6509061469_165642656b.jpg)
Another shot of the same bird:
It was pretty late in the evening. So we had to leave. I will update few more photos from the zoo once I make another trip. Till then good bye! 
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These are some selected pictures from International Mother Language Day 2011, hosted at Carleton University, Canada.
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You can check it using an online tool at http://html5test.com/ Just open up your browser (the one you want to test) and go to the site. It will tell you what is the score. To know how your browser did, divide the score by 3 (ie. If your score is 150, then your browser got 150/3= 50% marks).
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As part of the IEEE day, Ottawa Section will be holding a local event at Algonquin College Staff Lounge (D building) on October 6, 2010 (5pm-7pm). All IEEE members and well-wishers are invited to this wine and cheese event. This is also a great networking opportunity for the ones who are interested. There will also be a seminar on “Based Management of Optical Networks for Next Generation Disaster Recovery Networking Solutions with WDM Systems” and “Cloud Computing and Security” by Andrew MacKay (for more information please visit: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/comsoc/upcomingevents.html ).
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Those who are not familiar with Battle Royale, is the biggest LAN party from Ottawa is to be held on November 6th, 2010 at Carleton University. There are special discounts available for early birds and IEEE members. Available games tournaments will be on CS: Source, Starcraft 2, Left 4 Dead 2, League of Legends, Rock Band 2, Smash Brothers Brawl, Super Street Fighter IV (yeyy!!!), Team Fortress 2. Besides these games organizers are expecting local game making companies to participate and demonstrate their latest creations.
For more information please visit http://www.battleroyale.ca . The website also has a gamers’ community! Feel free to join in!
This event is a jointly brought to you by student branches from IEEE Carleton University, IEEE University of Ottawa, IEEE Algonquin College, Carleton Computer Science Society, CSSA-AEI, Carleton Student Engineering Society.
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IEEE Canada has established a new committee to support humanitarian initiatives in Canada. We are calling on the Ottawa Section members to help on a few of the initiatives underway: helping prepare a demo of a battery recharging service for presentation at EPEC 2010, helping create process for shipping and receiving equipment for humanitarian initiatives, design of open source Lithium Ion battery charger, organization of Canada-wide student competition of open source hardware for humanitarian projects.
For more information on HIC initiatives, please visit www.ieee.ca/hic.
[Originally published in IEEE Ottawa News by Alfredo Herrera.]
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Recently I have joined IEEE Ottawa Section as the Vice Chair of their Membership Development Committee for 2010. I will be helping the section to understand their members better and thus serve them with appropriate events, promotions and so on. Looking forward for some fun. I will try to update my activities as much as I can.
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Getting feedbacks to improve User Expereince actually blocks innovation. (Credit: activeside)
In one of my previous posts, I have discussed a different approach to solve user experience related problems. Today I am going to discuss how a developer’s or a designer’s awesome design can turn out to be a useless crap. One truth we tend to forget and I am going to remind now is that our users are the group of people who uses the product. Quite simple. So, what I am really trying to accomplish but reminding this?
As I discussed previously, a common practice is to think, when we approach to a user experience related problem is that users will misuse the product or they will use it in a manner, they are not supposed to. I prescribed to think that the user will use it properly (or at least will think that is the proper way) and the designers need to figure that out. It is nothing new or unique. A very common good practice in the industry is to present/demo the product to the potential clients and taking their feedback. Definitely it works most cases; but I strongly against this approach. Probably as a check mark this can be done; but this can not be the primary or focused approach to improve the user experience or usability. More than that, this approach blocks potential awesome innovations. Read more »
