The inner-geek in me found this highly amusing:
<sterano> Whats the difference between Raid_0 and Raid_1?
<Steve> In Raid_0 the zero stands for how many files you are going to get back if something goes wrong.
Monthly Archive for April, 2008
Thats right! Flickr’s much rumored addition of video has come to fruition, rules apply, and rightly so. Flickr Pro members (me!) can now post a 90 second video in a wide range of formats to the site. The rules are pretty strict, again, they should be. Lots of cameras (Including my new one) can do time-lapse videos which are rarely above 90 seconds anyway.
I know there have been people saying that Flickr will just try to be another YouTube clone, as far as I am concerned, this is in a complete different league than the likes of YouTube, for a start, the rules that only Pro members can upload videos should stay forever, this will keep videos strictly for the intended purpose, time-lapse, long “photos” and also people testing video from new cameras and making small reviews on how the camera performs with video, also a fact that it is Pro only will keep quality control pretty strict.
Even though it is not intended to be a YouTube rival, Flickr Video could still fold under the pressure from these sites, we’ll soon see as this all pans out and spreads around the internet, afterall, Google owns YouTube and their biggest rival is Yahoo who incidentally, own Flickr.
TechCrunch got the news early and got a post on their site shortly after Flickr announced the news. TechCrunch have also uploaded a video to Flickr which I have embedded in this post via a new button that Flickr has provided for members to generate a piece of HTML, like YouTube, for your own site. The quality, as you can see is a good few rungs above YouTube.
We shall see.
After having a go of the Powershot G9 at my local Jessops, I fell in love, I ordered it 2 hours later. Hopefully it should be here before the week is through so I can have a play with it on the weekend and get a few shots. 
I have bought a few things that have been recommended by others, paricularly a custom grip, thumb rest and hot shoe cover. These are custom CNC made by a guy in America, here, in total, I spent $43, this is barely anything in GBP and from the reviews of these products, I will see the benefit straight away, I will be using the camera originally without these goodies as they will have to be made and shipped (first class from USA for only $4!) from America and will take a few days so I will know the camera with and without.
Knowing that the 3″ LCD will want to be scratched as soon as I use it, I bought another Invisible Shield, $11.95 from ShieldZone. These are great and I had one for my phone and they are fantastic. It will still protecting my phone after being taken out of my pocket a good few times a day but had started to come off slightly at the cornors which ended up in me pulling it off (which I regret!), can probably reapply it but it needs cleaning etc
As for a bag, I am unsure, I found a nice one but upon reading review, may be a little bit big for the camera, giving that a pass for the moment and will read up more on the net for what other people use.
As per recommendations, I will be taking all my photos in RAW so they can be edited better, good thing I have a 4GB card as RAW files are usually over 8MB!
Image courtesy of MyCanonG7
3 things, big prices, little money, not much need.
Thats how I stand at the moment. I want a new camera (Post below), a Macbook and a new monitor. All three I have no need for yet I desire them anyway. I don’t earn much but I have actually started to save money and will be going down to the Britannia to upgrade my savings account and start putting money into it.
I want at least one of them but need none. I want a Macbook but would probably never use it as I have a rather fast PC (see systems) that is down at the monent but should be working again soon that is always on and faster than a Macbook, I work and couldn’t really use it there, I work 11 miles from home and travel by bus which means it takes me a while to get home so I have to catch up with emails etc. on the weekend. I usually go out as well so I can’t use it then. A camera would be nice but again, I don’t have that much of a use for one. A monitor would be nice, a 24″ would be perfect as I watch a lot of HD on my PC and 24″ monitors use the right resolution to play 1080P. 24″ would be nice without going over the top in monitor size, this is also a problem as I game and don’t have the graphics card to play at the native resolution with high graphics and lowering it makes everything blurry. A 22″ would be perfect for gaming but is the wrong resolution for 1080P HD!
So, I ask, what would you do!?
PS: First post on WordPress 2.5!
