Photography and game consoles

Picasa 2 is completely free. Not free as in "time-limited tryout," not free as in "ads in the margins," not free as in "you will be assimilated into our mailing list," but really, truly, no-strings-attached free. You can download it right now from Picasa's Web site. (So how does Google plan to make money from Picasa, whose pre-Google version cost $30? The company says that will come later. Google does promise, however, not to get everybody hooked on Picasa and then turn around and start charging for, or taking away, features.)

The above comes from an article at CNET about how to manage your photographs. I hope everyone is wise enough to take advantage of this great program. Picasa rocks! Thank you Google for another great ++ for netizens.

Harley Dave is considering purchasing a new game console. What should he buy first? X-Box, Playstation2 or Gamecube? His PC has a 16 meg video card so a console will be a nice compliment to an awesome home theater system that has Onkyo THX, Polk Audio speakers in every corner, and a Sony Vega TV. Please leave comments and email. This is something that is needed at the beach house as well.

Work calls. Going to bid a home theater build, pick up a computer and then spend the afternoon relaxing and trying to capture some local color with the digital camera that will be uploaded here. As always, appreciate the emails and comments. Keep em' rolling this way.

"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."
-Ansel Adams