The only Indian people I see are in the IT department at my job (and at the 2 good Indian Restaurants) (and the 2 or 3 Indian Restaurants run by Fijian Indians which are a little different).

This seems to be an international phenomenon. I also see Indian people in the IT department at my job.

As of now, I am not surrounded by holy cows, nor to I see the Ganges spread out in front of me in all its glory. So, even though I might be in India, I actually am not.

As of today, that's a negative as regards a trip to India.

I make no promises about tomorrow though. It is the weekend after all.


EDIT: aw dang, now I'm Chucklebot. That's some black beans right there.

Windows tends to leave quite a bunch of temp files and associated garbage on your hard drive over time. They can take up a surprising amount of space.

One thing you could try is to download and run Windows CleanUp!, it's worked alright for me at least.

EDIT: Oh, and you could use SpaceMonger to get a nifty graphical view of the contents of your hard drive, that way you might be able to identify what files are taking up all that space.

Tangle, aren't there two bands called HIM? Or is like HIM and h.i.m. or somesuch nonsense?

Yeah, kinda. The band I'm talking about, mates of Bam Margera and idols to goth emo girls here and there, is HIM. They were originally called His Infernal Majesty but shortened it to HIM due to accusations of Satanism and so on. Wikipedia page.

There is/was also a New York "dub influenced post-rock group" called HiM. Don't really know anything much about them. Wikipedia page.

Oh! Oh!

I could put together a mix disc of Finnish bands for you lot. ...except that half of them would be singing in Finnish so you wouldn't understand a word. But maybe i'll do it anyhow. Hmmm.

I'm currently listening to Zart's mix, that Snowpony song sounds quite nifty. And "Hotel Bloedel" scares me a bit.

After reading through this thread, I'm quite tempted to make a mix CD of my own. It will probably have no theme except "these are songs that I like". It may contain excessive amounts of Aquanet, spandex and raised index and pinky fingers. But possibly also Elton John, Stillwater and teh Springsteen.

SEEE-EE-ESAME STREE-EEET

Thank you, Carlos. That was too funky.

It won't help if you're not using more than 3x zoom, like Jough said.  There's not much you can do to help the situation you've described except to get a tripod so that your hand doesn't shake while you're taking the picture.

I am by no means a photographer (well, I am in the sense that I own a camera and use it to take pictures), but if you don't want to splash out on a tripod, a reasonable alternative in some cases can be a "bean bag for your camera" -type of thing. It's like a bean bag but the size of a camera, so you just need to find a somewhat horizontal place to plonk it on, and place the camera on top of it for easy(ish) adjusting.

Also, whether you're using the above bean bag, a tripod, or your hand, one thing that helps with shaking is using a timer (I think most cameras have one). Setting the timer to 2 seconds (or 10, even) eliminates the shake that can easily occur the moment you push the button to take a picture.

There you go, camera tips from a noob