The Rodent's Burrow

I have several domains that I'm selling off:

Ever since I upgraded the firmware in my Nikon D70 to version
2.0, I can no longer mount the camera's CF card as a USB
disk via a USB cable direct to the camera. (Yes, I know that's a slooow method, but I don't particularly care to lug
card readers around when I travel.) What's worse is that...

I feel compelled to provide a bit of explanation for my somewhat
surreal behaviour
as chronicled by Katy Loebrich. See, the
Swiss cheese came in cubes, and had been vacuum-packed in
heavy-duty shrinkwrap, so the cubes had largely morphed, merged,
and fused into each other. It was a sort of neutronium
effect applied to dairy products, and I thought ...

I just uploaded some more photos; several hundred megabytes,
in fact. Of particular note are the
ApacheCon 2004 US
photos, and a bunch taken of
Las Vegas, Nevada, during the conference. More are
being uploaded, but they're not sorted out yet.

Second day of the 'con, first day of yakking over at COMDEX.
Pictures start at the end of the page
here.

Yesterday, I picked up an interesting bit of polished stone
in a shop. It's about 5cm wide and 3cm high, and it looks
rather like a lump of caramel with tiny gold flecks embedded
in it. (See -- and click on -- the photograph to the right).
The matrix appears to be translucent, so the flecks appear to
be...

This
is cool. You'll need Flash, a high-speed connexion, and you
should turn down the volume before going there (and then
may right-click to 'Volume->Mute').

I've started getting some of my photographs from
Sri Lanka up and
onto Flickr.
So far it's just the fireworks I unexpectedly encountered
when I got back to my room one night; my patio had an
excellent view across the lake (Beira Lake,
I think it is). I certainly wasn't expecting the fireworks,
and my camera had been sitting in...

As I feared, the photos that Linux and my iPod conspired to
rob from me — 109 of them in point of fact —
appear to be completely lost. They don't show up as
'deleted' in any of the recovery tools I've tried (probably
because they weren't deleted, but moved). Right now
I'm scanning the unused clusters for the...

I finally got around to uploading the photographs I took of a
storm front
forming and beginning to march across the landscape. Not
my best photos by any means, but I couldn't let something
this beautiful just go by when I had my camera in my hands.
I really didn't do it justice, so use your imagination.