Well, the guys are finally out of the Beaconsfield Gold Mine. If the media is to be believed the good humour of the trapped miners continued all through. Parallels were already being drawn with the Quecreek mine rescue in the US in 2002, and it seems a reasonable comparison, with the sad note in the Tasmanian case that not everyone made it out.

I caught up today with Ben Whimpey from Orsino Images, and he seems full of ideas of where his video production company could head next. It was also good to get a fix of discussion about Apple, HD cameras and audio! My new Powerbook is now loaded up with RAM and will run AVID Free DV quite happily.


For those webcam fanatics who've had their fill of online eagles, the Mt.St.Helens webcam is always worth bookmarking, even though right now it's a tad dark.