So I planned on going to a music festival on Easter Island called Honu Eclipse. It is scheduled to occur around the full solar eclipse in July 2010. It’s being billed as an eco friendly festival highlighting the culture of Rapa Nui. In summary, sounds awesome. So myself and some friends bought tickets and awaited …
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Vacation
I’m going on vacation soon and have been considering my options for mobile data/Internet in Europe. Plan A was to prepurchase data from Rogers Wireless as they offer discounts when you do this. Well a 57% savings is great but when the roaming data charges are large enough to be obscene, 57% is still WAY …
Canon EOS 50D
So I finally bought myself a digital SLR. I’ve wanted an SLR since I was a teenager and started to play around with my fathers Canon AE-1. I went and bought a Canon EOS 50D with the EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM lens. I also picked up an EF 50mm f/1.8 II lens. So far …
I created a Twitter account about thirty minutes ago. The concept of Twitter seemed a little daft to me when the service started but today I read an interesting piece by Wil Wheaton that convinced me otherwise. I made the assumption that it’s used for opinions that you want to quickly express or the “what …
National Film Board of Canada
The NFB has put a tonne of their catalogue online at their web site. As far as I’m concerned, this is one of our national treasures. It’s fantastic that they have decided to share it with everyone. EDIT: It seems that their link id’s may not be entirely correct. The video I tried to link …