Archive for August, 2006

Apple Anticipation

Monday, August 7th, 2006

Apple LogoThe Apple world is holding their breath in anticipation for the pending announcements to be made at the Apple WWDC conference to be held today in San Francisco.

Why do I care? Well….I have basically decided that I will be replacing my dead IBM R40 laptop with an Apple MacBook Pro. The announcements to be made today may make me delay my purchase for a while to wait for the new features to become publicly available.

More info here: Apple WWDC

You can follow the announcements LIVE at PodTech and MacRumors

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New Camera - Canon 30D

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

After many years of longing, and pining, I have finally purchased a digital SLR camera - a shiny new Canon 30D.

I also purchased the following lenses:

  • EF-S 17-85MM f4-5.6 IS USM
  • Canon 50mm f/1.8

All of the pictures in my photo gallery have been taken with this new camera and lenses. Feel free to see what it can do.

Following my trip to France to watch the Tour de France, I plan to one day buy a nice big Zoom lense. This will be pending my wife’s approval I’m sure!!

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My laptop has taken its final ride up the creek. R.I.P

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

My trusty old IBM Thinkpad has died for the final time.

After many years of faithful service (including numerous motherboard replacements), it has lost the will to carry on, and slipped away peacefully, without a sound late on Monday night.

A replacement has not yet been decided, although a switch to the Apple bandwagon is on the cards, in the form of a MacBook Pro. Watch this space.

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