May 28th, 2007

Happy Birthday to me! I’m 26…it’s all downhill from here on
Last night, some friends and I went swimming in the sea at Helen’s Bay. It was absolutely freezing and I stayed in so long I ended up numb all over. But it was fun, and spontaneous, and the sort of thing I hope [...]

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May 20th, 2007

Canon 50mm is dead, long live Sigma 50mm! I’ve gotten over last week’s loss pretty quickly with the help of a new Sigma 50mm f2.8 DG Macro lens.

It’s just an amazing lens with 1:1 macro so I get right up close to things and get the sort of detail you don’t normally see. I’m dying [...]

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May 14th, 2007

R.I.P. Canon 50mm f/1.8. We had some good times together.
It was in my rucksack. I was sitting perched at the top of a tall rocky crag on Wee Binnian. I pulled my coat from my rucksack. It fell out of my rucksack. It bounced down the rocky crag. It broke into several pieces.
I did get [...]

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May 1st, 2007

Behold! My new smartphone running Duke Nukem 3D at 60fps…
Isn’t technology amazing. It’s an O2 XDA Graphite with a 416MHz processor and 64MB of RAM, which makes it more powerful than the desktop PC I bought 6 years ago. It also makes phone calls.
Before anyone accuses me of wasting money on pointless gadgets, this was [...]

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