Got my new, and highly anticipated, camera today. As you can see by the picture, it can only get better ;-)

Seriously though, its fairly easy to shoot photos with the Canon 10D, but I know I have a lot to learn, especially when shooting manually.

The picture is a result of long exposure because the camera and my flash didn't co-operate right away.

I know I have some work to do before I get to the level of Anders and his pictures at Extrospection

Interesting to note that the Bush government, and Rumsfeld in particular is denouncing ever having made Saddam out to be an immanent threat to the USA.

MoveOn.org has picked up the ball with the distribution of a video clip they describe like this:

Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld got caught blatantly contradicting his past statements, and we have the video clip.

You can watch the video at MoveOn.org - Caught on video

MoveOn.org is calling for censure. Wanting congress to reprimand Bush and his government for misleading the American public.

We must demand, at a minimum, that Congress censure the President. It's our Representatives' duty to formally reprimand him for misleading us. And we've got to demand it today, while they're debating their anniversary resolution.

Somehow I doubt that a congress held by the Republicans will be likely to reprimand a Republican President.

Arve writes about how the RSS format has disintegrated into a mess of incompatible formats: 11 ways to valid RSS

I think its apparent that there is a need for a standardised format to do what RSS is trying to do today.

As many of you might have noticed: The right of free speech and a free media is what I consider fundamentals in an open and free society.

And while I think we, the public, should have the right to know what goes on, and that people that voluntarily enter into the public arena (politicians, celebrities etcetera) should be prepared for extra scrutiny, I think that stories like the one going in the media today is a gross violation.

The case? An e-mail gone astray. The story? A womans e-mail to her boyfriend, with details of phone sex, flirting and daily chatter. The consequences? Work trouble for the woman and her boyfriend, and the dubious honour of being portrayed and rediculed in the media.

The English newspaper The Evening Standard even graces us with the full story, and the entire e-mail. And as if that wasn't good enough, they make sure to be at the airport to snap a picture of the woman as she arrives at London airport Heathrow.

This story would have been bordering on the unacceptable even if it was a public persona that did the grand mistake of CC'ing the message to more recipients than the desired one, but when a major newspaper chooses to make such a big deal out of a regular womans e-mail, I think its sickening and way over the line. This is a woman who has probably had no experience with the media, and will be highly effected by the story.

Shouldn't we be able to expect more from the press? In my opinion the most emberrasing part of this whole story is that an inocent woman is put on display for something like this.

With this kind of equipment it will be much easier carrying around EVERYTHING when you are out travelling, or taking long walks in the mountains. :-)

I have a feeling where we will first see the Robotic Exoskeleton is in military use, even though there are apperant uses for people with muscle handicaps.

I received this e-mail today, with an attached file called "Readme.pif".

Dear user, the management of Bergersen.net mailing system wants to let you know that,

Some of our clients complained about the spam (negative e-mail content)
outgoing from your e-mail account. Probably, you have been infected by
a proxy-relay trojan server. In order to keep your computer safe,
follow the instructions.

Pay attention on attached file.

Have a good day,
The Bergersen.net team http://www.bergersen.net

Of course, I AM the bergersen.net team - AND Norton had deleted the PIF file before it even appeared in my attach directory (not that I have ever opened a PIF file in my life, or would - for that matter).

Its interesting to see I am not alone in receiving a virus/trojan this way. Norwegian blogger Anders Jacobsen also received a similar (but not exact replicate) of the message today: Cheeky cheeky spammers (Anders Jacobsen's blog)

Well, that was fun. Or maybe not. Have been trying for close to an hour to install the cool little USB-Bluetooth-dongle MSI BToes, with no luck. That is to say, the installation went OK until I got this not so funny error message:

The required section was not found in the INF.

My initial thoughts was that there might be some problems with the driver files and Windows XP. But after trying to install the newest version of the MSI Bluetooth software (Currently at version 1.4.something) I got the same problem. BTW: DO NOT install the newest version, use the one that comes with your CD if you have an older version of the software. You need to have the dongle installed to get anywhere with the new software thanks to the requirement of a security code that you can only obtain from their site and with information only available after installing the dongle successfully.

Puh. Well, that much I've learnt in an hour. That, and the solution, thanks to Estato: MSI Bluetooth drivers : Accessories : Sony Ericsson @ Esato

The solution sounds pretty crazy, but is dead simple: Make sure you don't have an internet connection when installing the Bluetooth dongle. For some reason Microsoft is trying to get information related to the driver from the net while installing, and it breaks the install. For me it was just a matter of pulling out the network cable (well, that involved crawling under the desk and roaming through miles of cable, but lets not go there - its a scene I'd rather forget).

Or into something else? If you haven't seen Macromedia's excellent INTO - What are you into?, then you really should take some minutes to check it out. It features many interesting stories of peoples use of the internet and the web. One of the better is Tim O'Reilly talking about how the internet was a big revolution and people having trouble understanding that documents could come to you withing a matter of seconds from the other side of the earth, and how that has come so common place we don't even think about it today.

PS: Yes I know its old, just thought I would make myself (and maybe someone else equally slow as me) the heads up on this cool MM resource.