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Hollywood is making it harder and harder for us people to go to the movies. The prices to go to a movie are outrageous! Eileen and I went to try to see The Bourne Supremacy on opening night but could not get in — sold out. But, what surprised us was that [...]

Here are some more pictures that I took today with the Canon EOS Digital Rebel. I took them at 6.3 megapixels (though on Fotki, I am limiting the picture downloads to 750×750). I used both the “normal” and telephoto lenses.

Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal writes a scathing review of Sony’s new NW-HD1. His verdict: “While the new Sony is smaller than the iPod and has much better battery life, it is markedly inferior overall. It has a confusing, complex user interface that makes it hard to use; weak software for [...]

Being a Macintosh user sometimes makes life tough when it comes to choices for software. It was nice to see that Fotki has support for us Mac users in two ways. First, they (like everyone else) have a single file uploading page. Then they have a nice Java interface for uploading multiple [...]

Last night I took a bunch of pictures with the camera. This morning I took a whole slew more. Then when I got home from work I took even more. Here are the pictures. I posted them on Fotki because they just have more bandwidth than I do here on ultramookie.com [...]

Well, the wedding is coming up soon and right after that Eileen and I are off to Hawaii. It is the first time for the both of us and we wanted to capture picture of the honeymoon with a nice camera. The Sony DSC-S50 we have is getting long in tooth — at [...]

Google in some sort of pre-dot-com-bust fantasy is hoping to get $108 to $135 per share when they go IPO. Yeah, right. Wake up to reality Google people. This would make the company valued up to 36 billion dollars. Now, unless there are still people out there who haven’t learned from [...]