The Long Walk

This weekend Anisha and I prepared ourselves for our trip to Hahei on Tuesday. On Saturday, I picked up Anisha from the Auckland Domestic Airport at 5:30pm.

I bought a Digitor Digital Photo Frame from Dick Smith Electronics. It cost me $140 and displays photos from Memory Stick, SD Card, and MMC flash media. It's only 7 inches in size. It pretty much a budget model. It does however come with a remote control.

It plays MP3's and Videos as as well. In my tests, It balked when I tried to get it to play video with greater then 25 fps in it. I know that Phillips has a much higher quality unit available at twice the price. I'll consider this my entry into the digital photo frame arena.

I tried and failed to spent the $40 Harvey Norman gift voucher that Charlene and Nick got me for Christmas. Harvey Norman has digital photo frames, but I didn't like the design of the two models they had on offer.

On Sunday, we went to Countdown to get the food we need for the trip to Hahei. The food bill came to around $200. We did some preliminary preparation of everything we needed. We plan to buy the milk, bread, and eggs when we are in Hahei.

On Sunday night, Anisha and I went for a walk to my old house.

Additional Information: Hahei is an attractive beach fringed with pohutukawa trees and drifts of pink shells at the northern end. Offshore islands provide something of a breakwater, making this beach ideal for swimming, boating and fishing.

Fish Fingers, Wedges, and Chips

Anisha came to stay tonight. We went to the supermarket and picked up some stuff for dinner. Just a quick meal tonight.

Aunty Carol asked for some help with resizing some images for some items she is planning to advertise on TradeMe. TradeMe has an image limit of 500k per photo. I threw the images into Irfanview and played around with compression to reduce the size taken. I emailed the photos back to her.

It looks like the NZ$50 that I spent on Microsoft Digital Image standard a few months back didn't provide me with any additional tools that I will actually use. Perhaps I should have purchased the full Microsoft Digital Image Suite.

Originally, I was prepared to pay for an application that would provide a one-click touch-up on photos. Unfortunately, Digital Image Suite provides a three step process to apply three different filters for colour, exposure etc. Oh well, at least there doesn't appear to be copy protection on it so I can share it with a few people.

Useless Information: Back in 1919, the Russian transplant pioneer Serge Voronoff made headlines by grafting monkey testicles onto human males.