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Thanks Bill, Yes the Red Cross and various other agencies have a relief fund running, but honestly, it has already had a massive subscription (over 30 million dollars in the first couple of days, and that will increase fast) and in any case, that will not address the core problem, which is...

More from this excellent article, while the body count continues: "The Prime Minister weeps on television at the tragedy of Saturday's events. He looks around uncomprehendingly, unable to find words, unable to find meaning. But there are words. There is meaning. This is climate change. This is...

Fires the deadly inevitability of climate change

PS: visit http://abc.net.au and follow the prompts for news and very compelling photography.

Thanks for the thoughts, guys. The areas affected are some distance from here. This is nothing but luck, it could just as easily have been Ballarat instead of Bendigo to the north, Horsham to the west, Cobram to the south, or Kinglake to the east. Similar sort of country here, and just as dry...

I was going to post saying "Michael who?" but in scrolling to the bottom I saw (somewhere) the words "celebrity" and "athelete" and by the time I got to the bottom I'd remembered that he is a swimmer. The suspension, of course, is stupid, the "logic" behind it absurd, the social implications...

Hoolie Doolie? 7 years already? And here is me still only ... er ... only 50 this year. WTF happened? No matter. Happy birthday StorageForum and all who sail in her!

I've always said that the western world in general and the US in particular has gone totally stupid with the post-911 security panic (is it still a panic when it goes on for years and years?) but this absolutely takes the mega-stupid security screw-up of the year award. It might be only January...

Been there, done that, paid the price. Only in my case it was a huge sand dune in the middle of Western Australia. That was back in my digiscoping days: broke the scope (it had to go back to Austria to be repaired at the factory), and my best Coolpix. Ouch! Not a mistake either of us will...

I am totally unimpressed by the CPUs (of either brand) on the market today. Jaw-droppingly mediochre performance improvements on offer from both sides. Sorry kiddies, if it doesn't run my apps faster, I'm not interested in spending money to replace things that work. The problem, of course, is...

Well, at least you get two for the price of two for the price of one. :)

What's a "Seagate"? Haven't bought a Seagate drive for many years now. Last time I bought a Western Digital it was what came with my new Thinkpad and had Vista pre-installed on it. Took two minutes with a screwdriver to remove both offending drive and offending operating system in one go. It's...

^^^ Only if I'm desperate. And you have to be really desperate to want to patronize the site that those scumbags operate. Sure, if you want a pay site, have a pay site. No problem there. But don't scam search engines in order to waste masess of tijme and bandwidth that doesn't belong to you. I...

Speaking of Google, they just introduced the ability for you, the user, to remove stuff from searches. (Long past due, in my opinion.) It remains to be seen how well it will work, but if it finally, finally, finally allows me to blacklist those Experts Exchange scumbags from all my searches, it...

Where is the text? Nothing but an intro on that page, and wherever the link is, it is not obvious.

By the way, having been listening toi the car radio a fair bit these past few weeks while you were busy staring out the window dreaming, I heard some rather interesting poll results. OK, everybody was interested in the opinion polls in the States and wondering if Obama's apparent lead would...

Ahh, Tea, you shouldn't try to outsmart your older amd ever-so-much smarter big brother. It was Obama first, daylight second. Won it in a canter.

Sorry. I was just annoyed about blowing my (entirely imaginary) money. Stupid name for a horse anyway.

19th. Wrong again. Sigh.

Viewed, you silly monkey. And here was me saying Barbaricus was a fair chance for it. I should have known Bart Cummings would do it again.

Viewed.

Err.... you wanna try that post again without the signature, Liam? (Thinks: what's my sig at the moment? Can't remember. Oh well, take a chance. :)

I often have doubts about JTR's political rants, but I have to agree entirely with that one. Howell, the time for debating marginal income tax rates is past. Dead and buried. Required in this modern age is a taxation system that rewards responsibility and taxes irresponsibility. In other...

Hmmm .. according to the Register, Microsoft have actually started work on making it better. I'll believe it when I see it, but you never know. Microsoft "promised hard work on performance. The goal is to make Windows 7 run not just on your existing hardware but also on small-footprint...

So, what you are telling us is that at least it won't be any worse. OK, I'll take that.

Glue it in upside down with Silastic. Works perfectly. Well-cushioned, secure, but easy to remove when desired.

Now that was just beautiful. A classic turn of phrase.

I don't actually get the dead pixel thing. Of all the TFT monitors we have sold in hte last three or four years, we have had exactly one return for a dead pixel (a hot pixel, actually, but near enough to the same thing). One. Now maybe there are a hundred of our monitors out there with dead...

Ummm ... can't remember exactly. Don't pay too much attention to computers and prices these days, just do it all on rust and habit, and even hte rust is getting a little past it now. But it went down a fair bit, then it went up a fair bit, and is now araound about where it was maybe 6 or 8...

Yeah right, Dave. Good one. Tell me, how many US dollars does your dollar buy right now? Exactly one? Well, how about that? Maybe that's even the same exchange rare you had a while back?

Not yet, Pradeep. In fact, it may not increase them much at all. So far, at least, they are holding steady. I imagine that Canon is wearing the difference for the time being so as to maintain their market position ... and no doubt they were helping themselves to a fair bit extra when the $AU was...

A short report from the other side of the world: Australia has experienced sustained growth, fairly low inflation, and low unemployment for many years now. This has been largely funded by the massive growth in resources revenue, in particular, minerals to China (and other places) For some...

I confess to having difficulty in understanding the concept of "off-balance sheet" assets (or liabilities). I mean, what else is a balance sheet for?

Accent? What accent? He just sounds American to me.

Yes I am, Mubs. GWB has a wonderful speaking voice and manner: relaxed and friendly, enough homespun wisdom in there to drown a cat with, just a hint of steel underneath ... he does it brilliantly. Obviously, there isn't a great deal of actual understanding underneath, and what there is is often...

For quite a few years now, Republican presidents have been notable for extraordinary communication skills alied with deeply questionable understanding of what's going on around them - GW Bush is a classic example of this. Palin seems to be cast in the same mould. Err ... except for the...

Hmmm ... interesting comments on the Olympus AF system. Not what I'd have expected from that company. But, changing the subject now, you can take good shots of that general nature without spending mega dollars on a 1D III and a 500/4. Here is an older one, taken with a 20D and the 100-400...

Actually, I'd be very surprised if there wasn't a noticable difference, Gilbo. Astonished, in fact - and that is no disrespect to Sigma's very fine big telephoto lenses. The 800/5.6, if I remember correctly, has been around for a long time now. Nobody much seems to use it, I'm not sure why...

Well, first, because I use the cameras under real-world conditions. Maybe some of these other people do too (I don't know, I haven't read the reviews, nor do I intend to waste time doing so - I already know the correct answer, as demonstrated in real life) and maybe they are the usual...

Oh, and getting it onto an airline is a non-issue for me: I have neither the desire nor the need to go anywhere I can't drive to.

Not yet, Lunar, but certainly on my radar. I'm hoping that it will drop in price a little - say a thousand or so - over the next few months, but I'm thinking that it might be another year before that happens, if it happens at all. In any case, I've spent too much time away from the office lately...

D300. Let's get real, hey? Similar picture quality at low ISO, inferior at high ISO, close to twice the price. Who are we kidding here? No-one that I have heard of suggests that the D300 autofocus is anything in a different league to that of the pro-level Canon cameras, one of which I own and...

Spoken like a man who doiesn't own one. I am telling you that I own or have owned no less than four cameras with sensor cleaning, three of them different models, use them a great deal, and in the harsh, dusty conditions you may normally expect in the inland of the driest habitable continent on...

Ah, nothing like a little controversy to make a thread interesting. Today's prices: ($AU) D200: $1410 D300 $1970 40D: $1230 That's a no-brainer. The D200 is a joke. On Nikon's logic, my elderly 20D is probably worth $1550 - it's around the same age as the D200 and takes better quality...

Huh? WTF are you talking about here? Makes no sense at all. The 40D has been (and continues to be) an excellent performer, offering easily the best combination of picture quality, cost, and features on the APS-C market today. It has equal picture quality to the D300 (many people say better, but...

I use a flat rate system. Or approximately flat at any rate. We charge a flat rate for system clean up/detox, and the same flat rate for a reinstall. In general, we make the judgement that a given system will clean up OK or else will require a reinstall fairly early in the process, often...

Photoshop. Top ten with a bullet. 1. Must be very common (lots of people effected) tick 2. Must be bad at what it was designed to do (AV that doesn't, etc) tick 3. Must be misunderstood (users should have the impression that it's good) tick 4. Must effect the computers general operation...

You are going to pay even the slightest attention to a random blow-in on DPR? Pffft! Tilt/shift lenses, Doug, are very important indeed ..... but to a very small number of photographers. Real specialty stuff. Canon have had three of them available practically forever, and at a surprisibglt low...

How long would it take you to sort through ~1000 images and do the first rough junk/might be worth keeping classification using Photoslug? It has the power but you get the user interface from hell, and performance fit to make Vista look like Windows 3.1. DPP is a strange choice. OK, it's...

The ability to look at an image this week