..for my poor S400. The lens got stuck halfway out after my ocean beach backpacking trip I took last summer so I finally took it apart to see if I could fix it. Blowing it out with compressed air had failed, so I thought “what do I have to lose?”. I was amazed at how much sand had managed to sneak its way in given the lack of any noticeable entry point. I put it back together after blowing it out again and now it wont start up anymore – doh! Lesson learned – sand and cameras don’t mix very well…
Oh, tweaked the website design again… what do ya think? I didn’t like how things were looking under windows so I tweaked some of the CSS and designed a title image really quick in photoshop.

I’ve been playing with last.fm a bit over the weekend. Its a neat idea, you create an account and download a program that tracks both what you listen to in iTunes and what you play on your iPod, then uploads the track information to a central website so you can share your musical tastes with others. Once you have uploaded enough tracks they try and identify a number of people who are your musical “neighbors” and theoretically have similar musical tastes as you so you can browse what they are listening to and maybe find some new music.
I was somewhat inspired by this after seeing Adriaan Tijsseling‘s script that you can use to update your blog, but for now I think I’m going to just leave it as a link…

Alex’s last.fm page

Tomorrow afternoon my friend Teman leaves for Japan to work abroad for the next couple of years . He’s promised to keep his blog updated with posts detailing his experiences – here’s wishing him luck on his big move.