With my new toys, I’ve been producing a lot more photos. This isn’t a problem at home – I’ve got plenty of storage & backup space, desktop hard drives are huge and cheap. But they don’t help me much two weeks into a trip. I’ve got a few options: Laptop route I’ve been thinking about …
Monthly Archives: March 2006
Images RSS fixed
I upgraded to Gallery 2.1 R2 and implemented the RSS feeds. The old feed address (http://www.chrisnelson.ca/photos/rss.php) should work by forwarding to the new feed (http://chrisnelson.ca/photos/main.php?g2_view=rss.SimpleRender&g2_itemId=7). If you have any troubles with it, please let me know.
New toys.
(photos can be found here) As mentioned before, I ordered a new camera & lens. I wanted something of decent optical quality, small (in relative terms), cheap (again, relative), and flexible. I think have come pretty close to these goals with this camera (Canon Rebel XT aka 350D) and lens (Canon 17-85 IS USM lens) …
Drugs and fruit
Holy crap: Andrea Suastegui had been suffering flulike symptoms Saturday when she and her husband drove to the FruterÃa El Palsa Market on 25th Street near Broadway and purchased prescription medicine without a prescription… After the drug was administered with a syringe, the woman almost immediately went into medical distress. Police and paramedics were called …
Fraud
If you have used your debit card at OfficeMax, you might want to check on your bank statement. NJ police have arrested 14 people in connection with stolen data & fake debit cards. The crime spree forced banks across the nation to replace hundreds of thousands of debit cards. It also stranded Americans in other …