This one goes out to Mr Jogle..... Hope King Kong provides the goods to let you have one of these- you can send me your 10D body if you get one

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0408/04081909canon_eos20d.asp

Canon has today revealed the EOS 20D, the eight megapixel successor to the EOS 10D. The new sensor is however only half the story the EOS 20D has a slightly smaller and lighter body, a brand new 9-point AF system, near instant power on time, 5 frames per second continuous shooting, support for EF-S digital lenses, true RAW+JPEG, a B&W mode and USB 2.0. In total we've counted approximately 30 noteworthy improvements on the EOS 20D. Naturally we have a detailed eleven page hands-on preview of the EOS 20D and will have sample images available in a few days time. Price on the street around US$1,500.

*Now if they'd only get around to putting a proper 35mm Sensor in their 35mm bodies (at the prosumer level) we could all have proper wide angle photos!

[Update]

Best (cheapest reputable) place to buy this in Aus/NZ is funnily enough my local camera shop. www.jonathans.co.nz

Don't have time for a full comment on this... but a couple of thoughts.

• Wallace should have known better. She can pay any constructive dismissal settlement for all I care!
• The majority of the antagonists in this issue will be card carrying PPTA members with a bee in their respective bonnets over something totally different from 'learning outcomes' and 'standards'.

I come to this second conclusion as a simplistic fly on the wall mediaphile- from what I have observed the Annan side seems to be backed by a number of pretty smart people, the other side seems to have a majority share of thugs and losers... nuff said.

OK... so I'm trying to install Office 2k3 SP1 so I can test some Infopath stuff we've been working on. Thus far I have probably blown about 2 hours on it.... and I'm getting extremely PISSED OFF!

The install blows up at the end of the process claiming that it can't find SKU111.cab. It doesn't give me an option to help it find SKU111.cab... it just dies.

I am currently uninstalling office and then will reinstall it again to see if that helps. If none of that works I'm going to ring up PSS and yell at them.

OK, so I'm a day late... But monday was a snow day here in Dunedin. Nick thought I'd be cold... but not me! Office Dog and I were out by 8am in shorts and T Shirt (well he was in his birthday suit) going for a run. Herewith some photos... off my Smartphone I'm afraid...

http://blogs.msdn.com/ericgu/archive/2004/08/12/213778.aspx

Eric: Well, the news is that Ive decided to leave the C# team to join the Windows Movie Maker team as a developer.

Imagine you work for a New Zealand company with an entrenched monopoly. You think your website is pretty good, and you do a lot of business that way. But maybe you want to know what people really think. Perhaps you worry that your customers don't like you as much as they should.

...

So you take action. You decide to post a comment defending your company, but pretending to be from one of your happy customers. No-one will ever know, and it will help even up the balance a bit. Perhaps you even feign illiteracy in your "happy customer". You think your customers are a herd of illiterate sheep after all.

But you forget two important things.

1. You are not completely anonymous when you surf from work.
   
2. You are a complete idiot.

The whole 9 yards here and here.

Just seen this on the news....

I hope that the ALP also does 'the right thing' by donating the political donations they have received from thuggish Western Australian trade unions to the various construction companies who were the victims of such thuggery....

One can but hope....

Iliciting suggestions for content/functionality for your theoretical internal developer portal

Oh yes please......

But seriously... developers work in all sorts of different ways- IMHO the last thing they want is some company wide uber portal to constrain their lives. Give me blogs and Google- that's a pretty good toolset to be completely honest. Google is my most important productivity tool- I'd just love some metrics on how many searches I do a day.

Update: Office Dog is in the Dog Box for chewing the power plug off our office Air Hockey table....

BAD DOG!

I'm pleased Mr Dee didn't come to my session on smart clients, Val and Gabe gt a bit of a roasting...  *

I'll have to write up my review sometime over the next few days... just REALLY busy..... and got to do GST today!

I agree on poor old Nic's session... the drilling was crazy... I left and stormed down to the speakers room and told some people to start rolling shit down hill!

[OK.... Quick Brainfart Below]

To be completely honest I'm not as keen on Sky City as a venue. I really liked the Aotea center because it was spread out, had lots of room and has some character. The rooms are not as good as Sky City maybe, but, they've just done a major refit.

I didn't actually get to many sessions at Tech Ed this year- was busy reworking my slide deck to remove all the content I presented @ Security Summit. In the end I only had two people who had been to the security summit presentations in my session so I could have represented some of that exciting content.

My session went pretty well. Got through a couple of Demos. My Smart Client deployment demo went well apart from the fact that I couldn't get my initial MSI deployment to work so I had to XCopy deploy. Deployment really is the best feature of smart clients. We have one of our applications deployed from invercargil to Kaitaia and updated automagically over the internet.... Really is useful.

I think that I spoke fairly well but that I could probably do with refining my slide deck a little- had a bit too much detail on some of the slides. I really wanted to make it an interactive session... but everyone was pretty tired Daryl Burling and Brent Clarke helped kick things off though.

Will be interesting to see my feedback. Anyway... gotta go do some work. More on Tech Ed from me (including jumping off the Sky Tower) later!

*[UPDATE] Mr Dee did come to my first session (the DNUG Meeting) and said it was a 'must not miss'

We've now got an 'office' dog around Kognition.

Toby is a wee terror who has just today learnt to climb the stairs to the office. Provided he is good and stays relaxed on the bean bags I'll let him stay... otherwise he's going out the back!

Michael Kleef is talking about how he tried to make his session more interactive for Tech Ed this year...

I really want to start getting my sessions more interactive too- tried to get this years Tech Ed one more interactive. The fact that it was 2nd to last session made it a bit tough...

Looks like Michael was using bribes... must remember to take some bribes next time

Will have to wait and see how my evals turn out....

Hard News has good post on Maxim today.

Including Maxim being caught telling porkies... which is WELL WORTH READING

...and more good stuff from the Rationalists and Humanists on the Maxim Spambomber