Stuff I've bought lately
I’m an unstoppable gadget freak. I know I need help.
- So I drink a lot of coffee. Enough to justify a Starbucks Barista Digital Italia automatic espresso machine. Water and coffee beans in, espresso out with one button press. Dump out leftover grounds daily. Amazing.
- Digital camera next. I bought a Panasonic SV-AV100 digital video recorder – records MPEG2 and MPEG4 onto SD cards. Top of the MPEG4 quality spectrum requires 1Mbps, or about 450MB an hour. Top of the MPEG2 quality spectrum requires 6 Mbps. Also takes stills (including the one above). (So maybe I didn’t need another camera, given that I have a Casio Exilim Z4 and a Canon EOS Digital Rebel.)
Next post will be back to software: some thoughts on David Luckham’s Complex Event Processing. Maybe a few words about my effort to install Gnu HURD under Virtual PC. (Yes, I’m serious.)
