Today I got a Sony Cyber-shot® Digital Camera DSC-F828. I'm stoked and all that. I'll be able to take my amateur photography to a new level now. Uses the same batteries as my camcorder as well. And hooks up to the PC real easy. Packed full of features that'll be enjoyable to learn.

Anyways, the reason I wanted to post was because I was looking around for Compact Flash cards [the camera uses one for storage - as well as a Memory Stick if you want], and came across this page that shows you how to get a 4GB CF card out of a $200 Nomad MP3 player. The 1GB CF card I got for the camera was almost that much, so it's well worth it.

Update: Actually, you can get the 4GB CF cards for about $275US, so it might only be worth it if you're like me and enjoy pulling hardware apart =)

Wow...This looks good.

I saw Shrek 2 the other day. As expected it wasn't anywhere near as good as the first one, but that's to be expected. The first movie wasn't really geared up for a sequel, so the story lacks. But there were some advances in the animation techniques, as described in this article.

This review of the Zaurus SL6000 is pretty good. If you're looking for a Linux-based PDA, the SL6000L is the one to get [The trailing L means it has wireless networking hardware installed]. No point getting a PDA these days if it doesn't have wireless networking.

A while ago I spoke about how the US were going to introduce the finger printing of all non-US citizens entering the country. And now the FBI just had to apologise to one of it's own citizens for incorrectly detaining him on the basis of fingerprint identification.

The FBI has apologized to a man it arrested in connection with the Madrid train bombings, hours after he was cleared of any wrongdoing.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation detained Oregon lawyer Brandon Mayfield for two weeks after investigators thought they had matched his fingerprint to one found on a bag of detonators in Madrid.

Last week, U.S. officials released the 37-year-old Mayfield after Spanish police said the fingerprints belonged to an Algerian man.

Full story here.

Mark hits the nail right on the head with this post. There'll all good points. Not for everyone I must admit. Actually, what will actually happen is that a lot of MovableType users will probably just move to TypePad, which was probably the idea all along.

It's starting to look like the more technically savy people are moving to WordPress. Good luck to them...I hope they do well. Meanwhile, I'll keep developing my own product, and hopefully one day it will be released =)

On a slightly related topic, there's a detailed breakdown of the major blog software products here. Good for reference at the very least.

Looks like I've score myself an iPaq. I haven't had a PDA since the very early days...it was a monochrome Sony Palm device. So I'm keen to give it a go and see what happens.

Already reading the Linux iPaq FAQ. =)

Over at Mena's Corner she explains why you should pay them more money for there MT product. I've never used anyone's blog software apart from my own [which is still under development, but runs this site is a half assed way], so I'm not one of the many who will soon find themselves with missing features because they're downloading the free version. In any case, I'm sure there'll be decussion about it all.

BTW - here's how much it will cost.

It's a bold title I know, but no doubt some tech journalist will soon [or already has] dub the coming changes is such a way. What am I talking about? Well, the big Linux corporate gun has finally [and publicly] made a stand. Red Hat has anounced a corporate desktop version of Linux.

Red Hat Desktop is the newest member of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux family. It provides a high-quality, full-featured client system that is suitable for use in a wide range of desktop deployments.

While primarily focused on enterprise and commercial markets, the features and stability of Red Hat Desktop also make it attractive for use in small and medium business environments. It is available in configurations that include Red Hat Network Proxy or Satellite Server, ensuring the complete deployment delivers the highest levels of manageability and security. Red Hat Desktop supports single CPU systems with up to 4GB of main memory.

My [humble] prediction: Relatively slow uptake by large corporations at first, then [once it's proven itself to the financial peoples of the world] a massive wave of cross-overs [I don't want to use the term switch]. I'm still not sure about the time period of all this as the corporate world keeps surprising me with how slow it absorbs and processes new ideas.