The main reason I don't want a digital camera is that they don't hold enough photos. Even a 256 Meg memory card isn't going to be enough should I want to take the camera on holidays. Last time I was in Sydney I took 8 rolls of film in 5 days. I'd probably take a lot more photos if my camera was digital, then filter the crap out later.

I read now that there is a card reader you can buy for the iPod. Thus, if you owned an iPod and caried it around with your digital camera, it becomes a nice little portable harddisk, that also happens to play MP3s.

The combination is tempting, but still way out of my price range for such a toy.

The dream of having your very own Transformers G1 Soundwave without floppy arms and legs is now possible with only US$90 including postage to Australia. (via Dave)

At that price Aus$140 for Unicron doesn't look so bad.

YouAmI.net have put up the whole recent You Am I Triple J Live At The Wireless set in nice quality MP3, better quality than I managed to tape off the radio. One suspects they had access to the master.

The official Cartoon Network Clone Wars site is up and running. The show looks like it will at least look good. Looks like we'll be able to watch the show online too. Excellent.

Meanwhile, buy a CD of Tranformers Patents (including diagrams) in PDF format on eBay.

I'm (re)reading Asimov's "Gold" collection at the moment. Only a third of the book is short stories, and most of them are rather cringe worthy although blissfully short. Often they're little more than two page build ups to nasty puns. I find it most interesting to read "Cal" first, the story of a robot learning to write, including examples of his first struggles, and comparing Cal's crappy first stories to Asimov's later examples in the book.

The last two thirds of the book are non-fiction articles and editorials and they're far more interesting, if only to read in diary like fashion where Asimov saw himself in the writing world. He remarks on his inclusion as one of the "big three" writers (Heinlein and Clarke being the other two). He often speaks of the death of writing, one article even going on to explain his place as one of the dinosaurs, one of the authors that keep cramming the bookshop space keeping newbies out. I believe this collection was released after Asimov died.

From the did you know file... so far I now know that Nightfall was his first published story. He had a huge break in writing science fiction between the 50's and the 70's during which time he was bewildered to discover he was so popular. He hates 1984. He was first to publish the word "robotics" although didn't realise it at the time, assuming it was already a real word. Same goes for "positronic". He wrote the first Federation trilogy and resisted writing sequels for decades, finally giving in to fans.