Adobe answers Apple

For better or worse, Adobe's new pro photo application Lightroom will invariably be compared with Apple's Aperture. Adobe have a free beta version of Lightroom available but it needs at least a G4 to run (or a good Windows machine). No go on my trusty G3! It looks like a promising start though, from what I've read, and making it freely available in beta version until the planned commercial release in the middle of the year means plenty of input from folks all around the place with ideas on how to improve it.

the twins are here

I'm now an uncle three time over. My older sister Michaela had the twin boys on Tuesday night. They're very small and will hang around the hospital for a month or so, well accommodated in incubator things with various machines that go beep. No names yet, as far as I know. It's T1 and T2 for the time being.

The CMS bump-out went smoothly enough on Wednesday afternoon, and we got the audio-visual gear back to the PA People just in time. Time to start writing some notes on the system layout and operation for the next person to do the job if I'm not around to do it in 2007.

CMS

The CMS conference is going ok, with most of the sound gear performing well. The JBL VRX compact line-array boxes (two per side) are excellent, and seem well suited to speech reinforcement duties.

CMS conference 2006

Heading off this morning to look after audio for the six-day Church Missionary Society summer conference at Phillip Island. The Driverack is programmed, the cables are prepared, and all we need to do now is get down there and pull an all-nighter to get it all in place for tomorrow's conference start.

Back next Wednesday.

new OSBD site

One Small Barking Dog have a newly designed site which looks very nice. Check it out.

it's 2006

Happy New Year everybody. I'm back in Melbourne after a nice cool Christmas and New Year (we seemed to avoid the hot weather altogether) in Hobart.
I went for a walk to the Hartz Mountains National Park while down south. This park is a great spot for an easy day of walking with superb views over the south west and D'Entrecasteaux areas. I've made numerous visits to this area since 1987 and the trackwork done in recent years has been a good attempt at minimising the impact of walkers yet making for an enjoyable visit for the [slightly] less mobile. The pic above is from Hartz Peak with Hartz Lake below and Mt Picton on the closer horizon to the left of my head.