Three things

The good, the very good and the "le sigh"...

• I have become a recent convert to and big fan of Amazon Prime, the "all-you-can-eat" free two-day shipping service. Of course, it's not free after the three-month trial they're offering; it renews at $79 annually. But for the amount of holiday shopping and incidental me-me-me buying I do, it will handily pay for itself and save me money besides.


• My Christmas treat to myself was a new digital camera. I flirted with the idea of making the jump to digital SLR but, based on some website reviews and personal recommendations, instead bought a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ5. My golly, it's nice: A 12X optical zoom Leica lens, superior stabilization feature to reduce blur from handshake and enough manual settings to satisfy what little photo geek I have in me. I'm still getting the hang of its many features but for the price (about $350) and size, I'm mightily impressed.


• Last night, I returned home to discover that the hard drive on which my iTunes music library resides est morte. Oh well, at least I have a backup. Unfortunately, that backup is in the form of several hundred CDs stored in boxes in the basement. But hey, reripping my entire music collection is a great opportunity to sample at a consistent bitrate and get that metadata right the first time, right? Right? *cries*
  
  Also lost in the crash: Six years of server logs for this site right here (no big), a ton of digital photos (all on Flickr anyway) and some porn (some commercial, some more...um, personal in nature). Ah well. No more tears! Enough is enough.

A new camera, a new hard drive and a new year speeding toward me. Excelsior!

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