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I just purchased an AF 28/2.8. 2nd hand. Been on the lookout for it for the last 4 months. Will probably get to me before Christmas. ;-) Am looking to trim my kit to the body, a DA70/2.4, a Takumar 70-200/4 and this F28/2.8. Still have a DA40/2.8 pancake but it does not fit my shooting habits.

I need to change my signature. whenever I forget to uncheck the signature box, I wince.

I ran a 5K fun run last Sunday in 42 minutes. My left knee seemed to be injured so I couldn't put weight on it for 2 days. But it's better now. Maybe walk a bit tomorrow morning and then start to run a bit (shuffle would be a more graphic description) next week.

@Merc, ho-ho-ho Those kids have had their share, believe me. And 3 of the 4 are college grads with 2 of them bringing home work. The youngest is in junior high (or whatever is the equivalent of the 9th year in school. And I can anticipate what the next question will be...

I am repairing my brother's desk top machine. My sister-in-law forced me to. Her children don't allow her to work on her laptop. It has been on 24/7 for the last 2 weeks.

net article on "are cameras the new guns?" http://gizmodo.com/5553765/are-cameras-the-new-guns don't know if this has already caught your notice. but it seems alarming to me. and I'm not even in the US. There has been some anti-photographer action in England but this seems to surpass that.

hello, good morning from here. been elsewhere. not really a place, though. having "fun" back reading. may have a few thoughts to post. regards to everyone.

Whoa, I hope it is treatable.

Congratulations, too! Glad you have one of each. You must be dancing around with gladness. If not, you should be. Do you sing? Sing to the kids.

Not wasted, the suggestions still help.

hmmm. The way the discussion is going, you may really want to hold the Pentax in your hand, at least in the store. As to shaking, it's got in-body shake reduction operable with any Pentax/3rd party lens. and I've seen videos where auto-focus and zooming go together. (I could be wrong) And it...

I don't know what your budget is. But a little suggestion which may be a bit contrary to your wishes. There's a new little DSLR which costs $600 which can do high resolution video and take fantastic pictures. It's called the Pentax K-x. Read about it, it's got a lot of reviews and videos online...

congratulations. glad you are having a start at a family. enjoy... life. kids are a major part of that.

Yes, I get the image, Coug. =)) Dave is right. The Petronas Towers are in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It's a 4 hour train ride from Singapore. The cleanliness is refreshing. Hmmm, let me post a pic of the place we have here... Wait I'll have to hunt around. I am in the process of arranging my photos.

Singapore visit You might want to take a peek. The wife and I spent a week in Singapore Oct28-Nov4. She was needing a rest from teaching pre-schoolers, so I wangled airfare from a friend and stayed with friends to keep expenses down. All in all a happy week. There are some other pix but they're...

I also have a Grado SR60, had it for a year now. They have a nicely balanced sound. Only problem is they are indoor phones. No use listening to them in a noisy environment. Ah, yes, after an hour, my ears tend to heat up. Of course, it's hot here.

I was thinking motherboard, too. maybe a giveaway would be bloated caps on the motherboard?

I am sitting tight. The provinces up north are getting it this time. But it seems this one is blowing a lot with less rain. The one which wreaked havoc here last week had very little wind but a lot of rain. This time the government was ready. But, again, they have closed the barn door after the...

Wow! Thanks for the numerous responses. It seems like there's very little likelihood of getting any data back. More than a few drops entered the drives, because every time (I've done it six times already) I heat them, some more water seeps out of the breather hole. I suppose 5 cc's of water...

in the meantime, I borrowed my daughter's hair dryer and started blowing them dry. and... water started squirting out of what David mentioned - a breather hole. lots of it. hahaha and a sigh! their latest backup was two months ago. like I said, only hardware assistance. I can remind them to...

I couldn't agree with this more. Whatever happens, Merc, I hope you enjoy this visit. I mean, try to enjoy it. If you don't do what you are comfortable with, you won't be happy over the long run.

Typhoon Ondoy sunk 2 computers in a missionary office i help out with hardware wise. The casualties include two 80gb Hitachi hard drives. They didn't look bad from the outside when they dried out. I don't want to turn them on until maybe next week when they may truly be dried. Anybody have an...

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Thank you, Merc, jtr. My wife and I have gone through a lot of mixed experiences. But even the seemingly bad ones, we can look back to and still be thankful. You know, learning from everything and all that stuff. My eldest daughter was married in 2000 but separated from her husband in 2006. That...

It actually doesn't feel like that long to me. And the reason the marriage survived was my wife. She carried the family for the first 11 years until I "found" myself. Just happy. I'm dancing a jig in my head as I type this. 'Course I realize it's not for everyone. Just found myself enjoying...

For the record, and apologizing for tooting my own horn... We celebrated our 36th wedding anniversary yesterday. Yay! Our 35 year old daughter brought ice-cream, our 5 year old grandson gave us candied something, my wife bought cake and cooked carbonara. My 32 year old daughter gave us each a...

ah, once again, been encouraged (to try) and discouraged (won't succeed) to take pictures again. Thanks, Tony.

Yo, Merc, updates?

my numeral 8 turned into a smiley. how'd that happen?

you can buy eight (8) foot-long hotdogs here for $4.00 hahaha. of course, these don't come with a baseball game. hOpe you enjoy your "date" Merc.

on that Acer notebook... I uninstalled all the software not needed. Replaced the macAfee with Avast. It was zippy enough that I didn't bother reformatting. surprised me because the Toshiba notebook I reinstalled with XP Pro last April seemed sluggish compared to this Athlon unit. It has 2Gb...

uh, ok. Will make sure of this before I tinker with it.

ok, thanks, will try it.

My sister-in-law received a brand new Acer laptop with an AMD processor as a gift. It has Windows Vista Basic and the usual software overload. If I have a copy of Windows Vista Basic and use that to reformat the machine and use the windows key taped to the back of the laptop, would it activate?

that trully does suck, Merc. hope your cleanup of the surroundings hits the microbe.

so how does one combat this kind of infection? what treatment is done?

there's one which looks like the paper airplanes I folded when I was a kid.

This is the powered hub available here. Wonder how it compares to the D-Link http://rsun.com.ph/view_item.php?item=USB101

thanks Coug. Will have the sister look it up

the power is stable enough. there was a time when we had 4-6 hour brownouts every day for a month. but that was 18 years ago. we are way OT but why is turning off write caching good when one is afraid data will be corrumpted?

Somebody took the time to test a few sets of "low self discharge" batteries. He says Eneloops and Powerex were his choices. http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=677074

I'm looking. And will prolly go to the shops and ask around if they have them. hmmm, yeah.

that may be a solution... but I'm thinking the 5V USB power of the laptop may not be sufficient to power all the drives at once. the 160gb won't power up with just one port connected, I have to use 2 USB ports to power the drive up properly.

am still using this Dell Latitude D500 hand me down from my "niece" It has a 40gb internal hard disk from which I am always deleting files to keep it from becoming full. now I purchased a seagate 160gb laptop drive and a USB enclosure so I can just offload the files I usually delete. my...

this confused me a bit. just reading through the thread, I assumed you both were talking of the same capacity drives. Well apparently Gilbo was talking of a 250Gb drive and Coug mentioned a 1Tb drive. What model number was this 1Tb drive you purchased for Can$80? Maybe I will ask my sister to...

Just curious, Tony, do you get them for the price newegg posts, i.e. 100/ea if you get 2 drives or more? They are not available here. I suppose there's no market for them, most people I know do not have enough files to fill up a 160gb drive.

My bad. I looked at his post count and right away suffered some short term memory loss. aarrgghh!

right. I'd like to say that I'm glad Coug is still with us. I remember when he took a "short" vacation. And he's on the way to 4000

Have downloaded the live CDs and will try them on this old Latitude D500. Will be monitoring this thread for new developments and tips.

hala, how long have you been glued to the TV? in my case, I've been reading Tom Clancy novels on PC and converting them to txt so I can read them on my small player when I'm in transit or waiting in line someplace. sometimes my head aches. then I have a reason to stop for a while.