some weeks ago i stumbled over the sheevaplug – about the first sample of the newly emerging species of “plug computers”, complete computers in a housing of about the size of a power adaptor. it’s said to become the next big thing, one or more of these hanging on every household’s DSL could take cloud computing to the next level – as they should become really cheap (<50€) with more commercial products being produced based on it.
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one would think that machines like a canon 1D mark3 should resist a little rain – and well – mine actually did resist a lot more yet, but obviously one can have bad luck either. after a rainy (but not heavily pouring rain) soccer-game in april it seems i didn’t let it dry long enough, and probably should have taken it out of it’s bag (it’s usually lying in there upside down with a long lens attached) instead of just opening it.
however, when i turned it on the next time it seems there was some condensed water left at a *very* bad spot, namely the connection between the mainboard and the bayonet – and well, this killed it :(

luckily insurance covered it, so i’m now sitting at the sidelines with my mk2N and waiting for the mk4 .. 8)

some views from the inside:

my trusty (knock wood) ford focus c-max just turned 100k, of course i missed the opportunity to get a shot of the five 9s though i had it planned for weeks.. ..

with that number on the counter i quite likely won’t sell it anytime soon, so where are those reasonable *and* useable hybrids? – probably will wait for those..

got an e-mail couple of days ago, fishy from header to footer, but still, quite directly aimed and i guess there might be folks falling into that kind of trap.. so i thought it was worth a post, maybe it helps someone when researching after having gotten similar:

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oh yeah, sooner or later i had to establish a geekdom-related category on that blog.. 8) so here we go. new gadget in the house, namely a nokia n800 webpad, but thanks to it’s open platform it can be used for a lot more than just surfing the web, there are tons of community contributed tools..
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