New Toys
What is a man without his toys? Err, wait... don't answer that. After a long and agonizing (oh, the drama 
) search I bought my first DSLR the weekend before last (24-25 June). It will be an easy date to remember - as it happens to be my brother's birthday. It's a Pentax *istDL (what a strange name) and I've done about 700 shots so far - that's an average of 100/day!
And this weekend, with the help of Dimitre, I finally jumped onto the AMD bandwagon - with an Athlon64 3000+ (2.0GHz clock rate). After a weird RAM issue, we managed to find a combination of DIMM's that the motherboard liked and it's now running happily with 1.5GB (1x1.0GB + 1x512MB). It feels great but I'm still waiting for the new 2x160GB Seagate Barracuda which I'm going to run in a RAID-1 configuration. The real test will be once I've reinstalled onto those drives - all my Java stuff might finally start running reasonably well 
Perhaps I should try load the 64-bit Ubuntu as a secondary OS.