DeeKnow’s Grotto

after very little speculation, and even less research, I actioned a typical impulse buy urge and bought myself a digital camera yesterday which arrived at work today.

I took off and did a lap of the lake beside my office building as soon as it turned up and snapped a few piccies. I didnt read the manual of course as I didn't want to spoil the experience of making mistakes and consuming battery life.

The camera I bought is a Sony CyberShot mini thingy. It literally fits into the palm of my hand, in fact if I close my hand you can hardly see it. This is going to be especially useful when I enter my new career of international espionage and spying.

My main motivation for buying was mainly "because everyone else has one" (just kidding). The specs of the thing are pretty modest, but its the size which is the killer feature for me, should be able to slip it into a pocket, or bike jacket, or glove-box and not be conspicuous.

5:50:48 PM  

John Robb has written an interesting page on the real motivation behind US pressure on an Iraqi invasion, to combatting the axis-of-terror....

Oil

The US currently consumes 25% of the current global Oil production, it produces 40% of it's own Oil needs but these are predicted to last only another 7 years. In other words, unless alternatives are found, and in a hurry, the US is soon gonna be more-or-less totally dependent on Middle-Eastern oil suppliers like Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

5:32:18 PM