I have been quite busy with courses for months now, and haven’t had much time or content to post here. However, I have recently decided to start pretending to be a photographer, and to that end, I purchased a new camera. My old one, a Canon Powershot A430, was actually a graduation present from high school, which dates it just a bit. It wasn’t all that bad, actually, but it certainly wasn’t good, and it didn’t have enough knobs to to twiddle for my liking, or as much zoom as I wished for. I picked up a Canon Powershot SX 130 IS on sale for $215, and I’m quite happy with it. Although I didn’t consider this much when purchasing it, I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the video mode. I was also rather amused by the suggestion in the quickstart guide that if your computer was too old to play back 720p video, you should transfer it back to the camera and watch it there. From the phrasing, I assume that the intent was to stop people from thinking their camera had malfunctioned if the video playback stuttered and dropped frames all over the place.
If you’d like you can check out my gallery over at Flickr, although as I write this I realize that only one photo yet posted there was actually taken with the new camera.
That’s all for now. Hopefully I can come up with some more “normal” posts later.
- Ffej
Oh yeah, and P.S. regarding the footnote two posts back, I did finish off the code for the KFilePlaces* Activity support, but unfortunately due to being swamped with school, it didn’t make the freeze, and is in fact still sitting on ReviewBoard. 
But it works!
