Here’s a run from the cnr of Spring St and 6th Ave up to 40th St and back. Nike+ is throwing me incorrect mileage, so I hope to calibrate it properly next week and hook up Nike+ to this blog for real time running love.

My co-worker just posted this on his Kontainer. I thought I would share it with the rest of you.

Rained out! Very disappointing, but thanks to Red Bull for having me down all the same! Until next year.

The lads from my last place of employment, Clemenger BBDO Melbourne have produced another cracking Carlton Draught ad. The finest beer around, by the finest agency around. Well done boys.

For my international viewers, please take a moment to enjoy the Australian lifestyle.

From what I can tell, they couldn’t afford the bandwidth and hosting fees of all the subscribers to their services, and opted to encourage, nay, force users to sync their NNW database with Google’s. Essentially migrating their feeds onto the Google network.

Once this migration was made, the software was made free to everybody! Imagine my frustration when I shelled out money to support a product, only to have it become free shortly after with advertising!

So now the advertisers pay for the support, maintenance and development of the product, while Google flips bill for bandwidth and hosting fees. Smart move. But… the trick is, to get rid of the ads you have to pay for the privilege a second time! This is the biggest slap in the face from any software vendor (and I pay for a lot of software) that I have experienced.

Read about the rest of the subscribers angst in this thread and you will get the picture.

I know I’m late to rant about this, but it’s a rant none-the-less. Another RSS reader will be gracing my screen(s) from tonight onward.

Check the company’s website now. It has SFA of information about NetNewsWire, and it appears the entire company has changed focus, I mean check out their manifesto:

“NewsGator’s Social Networking solutions help you overcome business challenges by providing an integrated, behind-the-firewall, social computing platform that supports collaboration, facilitates communication, and improves worker knowledge.”

What the F&%K does that mean?

Screw you, NewsGator!

I used to have the Canon 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM that I bought just before we went and saw The Police at the MCG in Melbourne, Australia.

I found this lens to work pretty well for its size. The image stabilizer was definitely the strong point of the lens. Because it extended beyond it’s balance, it was pretty shaky at 300mm. It got me by for the most part. It worked excellently in the day light, and was a great companion because of its size and weight.

The only problem I found is that it wasn’t fast enough in low light.

This was one of those moments where you had to be quick. Normally I forget to adjust my camera settings (if I’m shooting still life I normally have it on A priority and the widest I can go), but the lens failed me for the last time. This was shot at f/4.6 at 800 ISO (from memory), and the capture was still blurry and random. I put this lens on eBay the following day.

I sold it for just under US $1000 (I bought it for AUD $1200 3 years ago), and was extremely happy with the resell value. Lenses, if cared for, hold their value! The first replacement lens I had on my radar was the Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM. Canon have recently released the MK II version of this lens, so there are a lot of portrait and wedding photographers selling their MK I’s, and this is what I picked up.

Overall, I am extremely happy with this lens. I spent the weekend getting to learn it’s strengths (fast aperture, with sharp, high-contrast results) and it’s weaknesses (weight, size), and I will share some of the better results with you soon.

Keep an eye on my Flickr for the latest shots as they come off the camera.

So, here’s hoping I can keep the banter, story telling and programming quirks up.

I took this shot while I was walking home after a long night (day?) out in Stockholm. The water was beautiful, warm and crystal. We decided this was the perfect time to take advantage of the popular lake Trekanten (the Triangle).

Taking a trip across from South Ferry over to Governor’s Island.

Manhattan, NYC, New York.

Shot at a very packed Coney Island. This was officially the first day of summer in New York City.