I’ve compared the two lens for those who are interested in the depth of the difference between the sharpest and least sharp lens for an EOS digital. It may help some avoid buying the standard kit lens, and for others prove as a good example that the kit lens may be just enough for their needs.

Please click Canon 18-55mm vs. 50mm 1.4 comparison in PDF to view the document. The comparison is provided as is and is as good as the amount of time and effort which went into it. Cheers!

The news on Mac OS being developed in parallel to run on Intel in addition to the PowerPC processor stunned me. I can’t even be ashamed for not foretelling that despite the rumors, because a completely different processor architecture supported for 5 years just ‘in case’? That just doesn’t make sense! Apple is fairly small and 5 years ago had enough work just with keeping it alive and persuading people to jump on its new OS for which there was very little support and close to no applications. Hardly a situation to run a parallel development of this untested OS for Intel ‘just in case’!

I guess I’m a bit disappointed, too, to hear the famed RISC processor to go from Apple, from Macs. Intel is just ubiquitous, no frills processor. But it works and works for less money than IBM’s G5, I guess. Consumerism may be part of the death pill that PowerPC received. Afterall look at the 3G iPod transformed into an uglier 4G with no transparent red underlit touch buttons. It went from a specialty product, from an ultra cool, if not the coolest at the time, gadget, to an ordinary consumer product that serves the purpose.

Nevertheless, events are a stroke of a genius from the strategic market point of view. Steve Jobs just never stops surprising us…

Finally I found the link to BlogThis. It’s bookmarklet, a pretty active bookmark that can be added to any browser. Click Blogger Help : What is BlogThis! ? to find out how to ‘install’ it.

Yesterday I found PimpMySafari, a very neat page with helpers, plugins AND bookmarklets for Safari. If you get a hold of the basic javascript variable passing, it’s easy to create new ones, too!

Don’t take their word for it. Whatever is written and sold may still not hold.Writing ‘rostfrei’, stainless in German, did not help much to keep this knife from developing rust. This photo is a nice contrast between advertising or packaging and reality.