My camera now has 8 (2 sets) of NiMH batteries. It is now a happy camera.

I went to visit LKEB today. These guys are doing some seriously cool stuff...

We (office-mate and I) had some demonstrations here at informatics for some of the project leaders. They did look impressed.

I also built some potato versions of my latest unstable jed packages. The reports for vtkFlRenderWindowInteractor are coming in, and it seems that it works perfectly on that other toy operating system.

Whoooooooo! My camera just arrived (quick huh?). I'm happy with that.

Yesterday a whole bunch of us went to KU Leuven and to Materialise in Belgium for an academic visit. It was absolutely worth it... these people are doing some really wonderful things with rapid prototyping (3d printing for the luddites amongst my fans).

The DC3400 won the competition, primarily because of its good linux support and the fact that it has a USB port for communication with a host PC. The Oly only has serial and I couldn't find out for sure whether there was linux support. It does have a very good lens, but the Kodak is considerably cheaper and matches the Olympus very well featurewise. I went ahead and ordered directly from Kodak; if everything goes according to plan, I should have the camera by Tuesday. Yaaaaaaay!

I almost bought an Olympus C990Z (US: D490Z) yesterday, but the stupid shop didn't have any in stock and I didn't feel like haggling about the display model. This seems like a very solid 2MP camera and if reviews can be believed, its only con is that it doesn't have USB. At the moment it's between this and the KODAK DC3400, which also seems like a good buy and is even a bit cheaper than the Olympus.