The Twilight Report

2009-01-30T00:57:00

27 January 2009 07:40pm: GFC GFC GFC GFC GFC GFCGFCGFCGFCGFCGFCGFCGFC aieeeee! Can't you talk about anything else?
Yesterday at 09:57am: When my credit with Crucial runs out I'm going to switch my Australian hosting provider. They are that bad. Need an Aussie slicehost.
Yesterday at 02:58pm: It makes me nervous when the guy at the professional lab asks me if my C-41 film is transparency or negative.
Yesterday at 07:22pm: Bloody train driver forgot to stop at my stop. Now have to wait half hour to get back. If I knew how far I might walk.
Yesterday at 07:29pm: The bell birds are singing like bells here as the sun sets. If I weren't so mad at CityRail it would be pleasant.
Today at 07:05am: Train bothered to stop to pick us up this morning. It used to be a given, but after yesterday not so sure.
Today at 04:56pm: Good D700: being able to use the aperture ring on MF lenses. Bad D700: not being able to use aperture ring on AF lenses.
Today at 07:57pm: Happy to report the train driver bothered to stop at my (scheduled) stop today. Will wonders never cease?

2009-01-25T02:57:00

22 January 2009 07:31am: There exists a person named Kevin Howard. This amuses me.
22 January 2009 07:42am: Ira Glass is sounding increasingly desperate for donations :( hope they don't axe the podcast.
22 January 2009 11:58am: The universe still works... even when you forget to notice. And other trite observations by yours truly.
22 January 2009 09:05pm: Wonderful. RAW files from a Nikon D700 are unsupported under CS2.
Yesterday at 08:53am: My Australian hosting provider proves yet again that they suck. If there were alternatives.
Yesterday at 10:21am: Layoffs at The Company once again makes me nervous for my friends, and glad I'm not there any more.
Yesterday at 10:57am: While looking at the graveyard through my viewfinder and waiting for my tea to cool, a coworker told me a ghost story.
Today at 11:13am: Camera running low on battery juice. This wouldn't happen on a mechanical camera.
Today at 02:28pm: High is only thirtynine today. Happily I am in an air con restaurant.

2009-01-22T01:50:00

19 January 2009 08:10am: Forgot the memory card for my DSLR today but remembered my TLR with film.
19 January 2009 03:39pm: With all the dire predictions of web(bubble) 2.0 corps folding in the recession it's nice to work and an unsexy corp with actual revenue.
Yesterday at 03:39pm: It's so cute that to install APC (a PHP module) that you need Perl installed.
Today at 04:35pm: New toy hopefully arrives tomorrow: Nikon D700 DSLR and Nikkor 16-35mm f/2.8 lens.
Today at 05:28pm: Obama got the first five pages of the mX today. Hard not to feel the excitement even on the other side of the world.

2008-11-25T13:38:00

16 November 2008 04:05pm: Interesting. With the exchange rate such as it is the D700 is actually cheaper here (without researching or shopping around) than B&H.
16 November 2008 08:56pm: Fixed a number of bugs this weekend. It's been a while since I felt this productive, and I've not even been working that hard.
18 November 2008 08:27pm: The only way to make my new computer run slow is to encode two movies at a time into a format that iPod can grok. Why is Apple so fussy?
Yesterday at 08:22pm: Nice cool evening at The Point. Pick Lena up from the airport tomorrow.

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