It’s taken a while, but the 580EX II flash is finally available in Australia. I’ll be ordering one (or maybe picking it up) tomorrow, to give me time to get used to it before I shoot Emma’s wedding.
Archive for May, 2007
Flashy
Posted in Photography on May 31, 2007 |
We have the technology, we can rebuild it
Posted in Music on May 31, 2007 |
Today Apple released the long-awaited (by me) upgraded EMI songs on the iTunes Music Store. These songs are twice the bitrate (256kbps vs. 128kbps) and have no DRM, making them free to change to another format to put on any device you own. Obviously I wasn’t alone in looking forward to upgrading my songs – [...]
Books
Posted in General on May 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I need some suggestions for excellent books to read (which I actually plan to get in audiobook format to listen to while I trundle about town). So far I’ve bought Perfume, The Road and Crumpet has Life of Pi. I’m also planning on getting The Kite Runner. More suggestions please!
Movies, a ya ya ya ya
Posted in Film, Music on May 22, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Today I hired a few DVDs because it was cheaparse Tuesday. They were The Departed, The Machinist, Saw, and Happy Feet. I’m not sure that combination has ever been hired by the same person before… Oh, and Crumpet bought me a Cyndi Lauper best-of CD, because the JB site wasn’t working properly last night. Screw [...]
The joys of outsourcing
Posted in Geekery on May 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
When you cut the cost of computers down to the bare minimum, you get customer “service” like this. Service costs money, yet people still insist on buying the cheapest machine they can find. Oh well, it keeps me employed.
