Archive for the 'Interests' Category

Waiting for Canon’s next full-frame DSLR

When Canon’s consumer digital SLR cameras first came out, their sensor sizes were smaller than their film counterpart’s size of 24mm x 36mm. These smaller sensor are the same size as the old APS-C film size of 16.7 mm x 25.1mm. This resulted in the sensor only capturing a smaller section of the [...]

Looking for a Polaroid camera

Polaroid just announced that they’re getting out of the Polaroid business!  If you’ve got a Polaroid camera, now’s the time to stock up on instant film before they’re gone.
In the days of film and long before the digital camera era, people turned to Polaroid for their photography instant gratification needs.  Didn’t feel like waiting for [...]

Windows Vista SP1 RTM Announced

Mike Nash from the Windows Vista product team has just announced on the Windows Vista blog that Windows Vista SP1 has been RTM’d (Released to Manufacturing). I’ve been running Windows Vista SP1 RC1 for the last little while and it doesn’t seem to have really cured the file handling issues.
One of the amusing things [...]

A poor man’s watch collection – watch #6

This is my sixth in a series of posts on my humble watch collection.

A poor man’s watch collection – watch #5

This is my fifth in a series of posts on my humble watch collection.

A poor man’s watch collection – watch #4

This is my fourth in a series of posts on my humble watch collection.

A poor man’s watch collection – watch #3

This is my third in a series of posts on my humble watch collection.

A poor man’s watch collection – watch #2

This is my second in a series of posts on my humble watch collection.

A poor man’s watch collection – watch #1

This is my first in a series of posts on my humble watch collection.

A poor man’s watch collection

Every once in a while I’ll visit the Poor Man’s Watch Forum or the WatchUSeek forums looking at the watches other people wear. Some people (I’m guessing most of the forum participants are men) have quite an impressive collection of fine watches. If you are knowledgeable enough, you earn the title of WIS.
So [...]