Posts by BenWilson
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And when does your "hyperbole" progress beyond mere idleness and become really, really offensive?
I know this one: 10:39AM on 17 Dec 08.
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How anyone could do that confuses me. I pack the laptop before underwear or a toothbrush
I'd take my PDA as the very minimum, which reads my camera cards, has a functional keyboard, and wifi. Also GPRS for such low bandwidth tasks as reading the news or blogs, and making posts. So far the only place that has been useful is whilst traveling. Sitting in a bar or cafe, typing up the day's thoughts and going over my snapshots and reading the news was quite a pleasant way to rest my feet. Or a book, if I was stuck on a bus or a train. Or a million games. How did I ever live without one before?
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Heh, I'd think that farmers are not the builders of the economy but the owners of it. But their share is declining, as it must. So long as the population increases, our economy will move gradually away from agrarian. Which will be good news for the majority of people, and not particularly bad news for farmers (who will still be rich).
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There was me thinking I'd never agree with John Banks about anything but behold!
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Rich, you're thinking the wrong way. We don't have the World Cup here so we can save money on airfares and get cheap tickets. It's to gouge foreigners. I'll still be watching on TV, and steering well clear of the entire district of Mt Eden.
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LOL Stuart, the only lack of warmth I felt was in watching the All Blacks getting beat. All right, the food wasn't great, but I wasn't there to eat. And even if they'd been serving champagne and caviar I'd still have shivered every time we dropped the ball.
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Not wishing to be called a liar, I just tried putting IrFanView on my camera's SD card, by just copying the installed folder off my C drive. It ran fine straight from the .exe file, and did a batch conversion from RAW to JPG straight from one directory on the SD to another. Takes up 1.3 MB on the stick. So you wouldn't have to carry anything more than you already are, weight-wise.
IrFanView is a freeware image viewer/manipulator. There are naturally quite a few similar ones.
The only question will be whether net cafe's computers will be locked down to disallow running your own apps. If they are, I doubt it would take much money to convince the administrator to log you in as an admin for the time it takes to do a batch conversion.
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Yeah it is, but so are all stadiums.
The MCG is not a shithole, it is a work of art. Living near it was a joy rather than a burden.
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Soz Damian, I must have misread your Bangkok comment. I retract disappointment.
I take your point about it being nice to leave your day job behind. When I travel, I write to everyone. But I sure don't pull out my laptop and start hitting the code (my day job).
On the other hand, everything about traveling makes coding harder. Whereas everything about traveling makes writing easier. I say this from personal experience. There's just so much to talk about.
I'm pretty sure your technical difficulties are not insurmountable. You could put a RAW->JPG converter on a USB stick or memory card, for instance. I'm presuming RAW is a digital format, not film. Or you could have a backup camera for digital snaps that are in JPG.
But hey, if you just want to chill out on holiday, go for it. I'm just here to say that at least one reader would have considerable interest if you were still working part-time. Sue me for enjoying your work!
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Funny excuses facetious.
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