On the Radio One news this morning I heard a report that President Obama was going to send an additional 40,000 troops to Afghanistan. Whatever the rights and wrongs it struck me as an interesting way to celebrate getting Nobel Peace Prize! But now it turns out the report was wrong. Mind you it sounds […]
Entries from October 15th, 2009
More ISO than you can shake a stick at
October 15th, 2009 · Comments Off on More ISO than you can shake a stick at · Technology
Nikon’s new camera, the D3S (to come out next month) is reported to be capable of an ISO of 102,400. I don’t know a lot about the technicalities of cameras, but that sounds a little excessive to me. My camera does about 1600 ISO. Not sure what you would do with that, and at $5200 […]
Black to the future
October 15th, 2009 · Comments Off on Black to the future · Life
For a change I was ahead of the curve. Everyone has been piling in to criticise the Australian TV show ‘Hey Hey Its Saturday’ after the appearance of a group of amateur entertainers called Jackson Jive on a special reunion edition of the old programme – but I have spent twenty years disliking the show!