When I read this story about Sheryl Crow’s personal measures to save the environment I had to check the date on the piece to see if it was published on April 1.
Apparently not, but perhaps it should have been.
For those of you in the market for a new digital camera, you’ll quickly find that there are somewhere approach seven million articles on the topic of Digicam versus DSLR
Many of the articles that I’ve read have highlighted the pros of DSLRs to include things such as interchangeable lenses, RAW image mode and higher ISO settings. These are all great benefits, without a doubt, but are perhaps not the features that I find are of more value on a day-to-day basis.
I have had a number of digital cameras over the past few years, including mostly recently, the Canon Ixus 50 (digicam) and the most excellent Canon EOS 20D.
For those of you thinking about a DSLR as your next camera purchase, here’s a few observations on the features I find most useful.
Tim Bray recently wrote his review of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (all of which I would endorse), in which he states that speed is a feature. In my view, for most people, the speed of using a DSLR will be one of the greatest benefits, and will make taking photographs a much easier process (even if it doesn’t do much for the quality of the guy behind the lens).
The Freakonomics Blog has an excellent little article on how the Yale economist Robert Shiller has plotted US house price data as an animated rollercoaster ride.
Check out the Google video to see the results.
Given all the recent doom and gloom we’re getting from the media about the future of the Irish property market, it might be interesting (and scary) to see a similar exercise on Irish house prices.
I’ve just noticed that Typo, the Ruby-on-Rails blogging engine that powers this site has become active again, after what appears to be a long hiatus.
The developers have also released a new version – v4.1. As soon as I get a chance, I’ll have to install it, and check it out. They have also started a blog, so hopefully this means a renewed level of development activity.
While I like the idea of my blogging software running on RoR, I must say that sticking with Typo has not been without its frustrations. I have often been tempted to move to the behemoth that it Wordpress. However, the killer app for me, is support for Textile. If you’re not familiar with it, check it out. You’ll never (or at least rarely) have to deal with HTML or a crappy HTML GUI again.
One of my CSETs, Lero was officially opened yesterday by Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment, Micheál Martin