Dust

Well it's dusty again and still no apocalypse or mutants. I wonder how long this can keep up before central Australia runs out of dust?

Thursday Randoms

Wow, Thursday already. That came up fast. It probably didn't help that I spent pretty much all of yesterday asleep. I had a wonderfully agressive migraine so decided to just amp up on drugs and sleep through the agony, a strategy that served me well.

I have been spending sometine lately trying to find a good compact camera. While I love my 50D and all those exciting, expensive lenses, they aren't exactly practicle to lug around with you day in, day out, just in case you spot something awesome. Unfortunately, nothing on the market really got me excited and I had almost given in and just picked up a Canon G10 when Panaspnic and Olympus came out and answered my dreams.

Panasonic has announced the Lumix DMC-GF1. A sweet looking little 12.MP mini-DSLR with HD video (720p).

Olympus's options is the PEN E-P1 has similar specs, though will do 6400ISO and is about half an inch smaller.

At the moment I'm leaning towards the Olympus cause it's smaller, prettier, cheaper and has better specs. In short, unless the Panasonic reviews a massive load better, no one in their right mind will buy it.

Enough about cameras then. How neat is this retro 911 remake. The swallow tail and the subtle racing stripes are just brilliant. Pity it's a $300k ask.

My current feel on Snow Leopard is that it is more fast, more stable and much cooler than Leopard. All good things that confirm my switch to Apple. I just wish they would release a decent workstation class laptop. Something with a quad, a quadro and dual hdds for some redundant raid. Given how popular Apple is with the graphics and movie set I can see it selling well enough. Give it an 18 inch screen and keep it around 5kgs and your set.

Umm, random enough then?