It's been a month and a day since my last post and I've not made a conscious effort to blog again. Somehow I've ended up in this lazy routine where I spend 99% of my free time with a book. I hardly booted up the machine at home, after seeing Mahasen and Yasas's comments I thought it was time to put an end to the silent spell.
Summer has officially ended and Fall has come to Georgia. It seems more like winter to me since we had a couple of pretty cool days just as the summer ended. The average temperature drop would have been like 40 degrees!! We had 100+ summer days and this week beginning it was at 54 degrees.
While I was silent the world as usual went on it's merry way and there has been a couple of interesting developments in the digital photography arena. I'm referring to the release of the Canon 40D and even more the upcoming release of the Nikon 300D. The Canon has been shipping for some time now, I think Amazon were the first to stock it. Seems like we can safely expect the stability and the performance of the 30D augmented by a few enhancements. The Nikon on the other hand is a wholly new piece of equipment. It's insanely feature rich (54 point AF, 900+K screen!!, HD output!!) It's enough to make a grown man cry :) It should hit the streets around Nov 07'. The not-so-good news is that the body alone is going to cost $1,800+. Now if I can just locate that long lost millionaire uncle of mine ..
One more noteworthy update is the release of Opera 9.5 alpha. I've been using this for the last week and am quite impressed by the performance and features. They have totally re-written the rendering engine and the results are pretty amazing. I've been using Firefox ever since they released it and am currently using version 2. Opera easily beats this in speed, the few bugs I've noted on the Alpha are not too hard to live with and I'm sure they'd iron them out with the beta. Only thing I'm going to really miss is the Customize Google add on..
I've been working on one more small project, but guess I will put it in its own post.
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Hmmmm I think I should give Opera a try.
Even though I'm in love with FireFox and all it's extensions. our relationship has come to a point that I no longer can wait 2 minutes for the browser to load. I think FF should rewrite the entire program and stop those memory leaks. Otherwise someday it'll be another netscape.
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