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Photo

Expensive hobby

When I bought my EOS 350D some months back I knew it was going to be an expensive hobby, but I was thinking I would have to buy lenses and a flash. Stuff like that. What I didn’t consider was that the CCD chip in SLR cameras are voulnerable to dust. On old SLRs you’d might get some dust on the film, but that was just that one picture, then the film moved on. So tomorrow I’m shelling out something like 1k NOK (125 USD) for cleaning stuff. And that’s probably just the first buy in. I’d like to get the Visible Dust brushes and kit and everything, but I’ll just settle for the sensor clean pack which is a lot cheaper over here.

Pop by my photoblog to see what I’m up to.

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Development

TopLink 10.1.3.0.0 finally ships

So, finally it’s here. The next version of TopLink. I should have known something was up when the beta docs suddenly disappeared. 😉 Amongst things I’ve been waiting for are cache time-to-live. Other features would be OXM, JMX monitoring, EJB3 and Unit of Work flushing.

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Development

Server Side Symposium comes to Europe

Been running around fixing my tickets for The Serverside Symposium Las Vegas the last days. Stopping by San Francisco on the way, going to be an excellent trip. It’s a good thing they’re holding another one in Barcelona though. Shorter, cheaper travel with a lot less jetlag should make it a very good option.