Nothing too eventful lately. Work has been discussions of technical possibilities and usability for access to servers, discussions of quotas, way too much discussion of viruses (and the writers are in cahoots now, or at least in direct competition - see March 2nd entry), backup and printing policies, and just general performance problems and approaches. Basically touching everything, spending a lot of time on nothing. Outside of work I've been looking at way too much photo stuff. Basically trying to decide what I want to get before I go on my trip. Filters aren't cheap, which is a pain. I'm sorta trying to work out what can be done on the computer side (mainly color shifts), and what can only be done or can be done better on the film side (ND, polarizing, gradiated filters, etc). Picked out a cheap, small (like 15" long and 3" diameter when folded), light (under 2 lbs) but stable tripod. It's mount has one drawback in that it can't tilt to vertical, but that can be worked around. It actual provides slightly more horizontal stability in that way with the small size. The great part is it's small and light enough I can carry it with me all the time. Stupid photography stuff is expensive though, and I gotta get what I need to do city, ocean, traditional landscape, and desert in about two weeks. I also should really get more memory. I have a 512MB CF card right now, which holds about 150 shots. I don't really need to go more than a day, but it'd be nice to have some fallback even if it's only a 128MB or something in case I fill up the card. Should be interesting to see what I end up with.