New toy.

On thursday, I bought me a digital camera; a Nikon D50. That's the cheapest DSLR camera they had at the shop where I bought it—they had models for prices going up to just under €7000. The latter obviously is "slightly" out of budget for me, but this one isn't bad, at all. I took some pictures with it on friday, and yesterday I went to "De Oude Landen", a local (and rather unique) piece of nature, to try out my new camera. Most of the pictures I took then were crap due to bad lighting; I guess I need to read the manual a bit more. We'll see. In any case, it's a fun piece of machinery, and it seems my long-lost photography sk1llz are coming back now (I did a photography course when I was a 13-14yo). Love it.

Roland Mas pointed out that f-spot is a great application to manage pictures, and I have to agree with him. Apart from the fact that it is a bit pedantically gnome-esque in its settings dialog ("settings, what's that? Oh, right, that's where you enable the screensaver"), it has a whole bunch of nice and interesting features, such as the ability to tag pictures, export them to CD or web-based applications, and more interesting stuff. A bit too much clickety-clickety, but then I guess it's impossible to design a good command-line based interface to manage graphical subject matters.

Setting up gallery on sarge is not even half as hard as I'd feared, either. Long live the Debian apache team.

So, yes, the above means I have a gallery online. Take a look if you care; I personally very much like this one.