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I am loving the camera on my new HTC Desire. It won’t replace the D80 and decent glass, obviously, but as a carry-around camera it’s pretty darn good. And some of the applications you can install to do nifty camera tricks are really sweet.

July 24, 2010.

That’s the date of the third annual Scott Kelby Worldwide Photowalk day. On that one day there are nearly 1,000 photowalks taking place all around the world.

I’m running the walk in Ballarat. Visit http://worldwidephotowalk.com/walk/ballarat-vic-australia/ to sign up.

Why would you do this?

Have fun. Meet new people. Share creative ideas. Explore the beautiful gold rush era architecture of Ballarat. Swap notes about gear and techniques.

Oh, and I get to judge the best photo on the day – and the person who takes that photo wins one of Scott Kelby’s awesome books teaching you the details of Lightroom or Photoshop (you get to pick).

What’s not to like?

Oh, and as for camera? Doesn’t matter if you’re shooting with a mobile phone or the latest and greatest digital SLR. Bring what you’ve got, shoot with what you want and you’ll do just fine.

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Take care, people.

Big Girl on the playground at Geelong earlier today.

After I finished work last night, Lisa asked me to do a little bit of a tidyup of a few edges around the garden. I got the ride-on out and went around where I needed to, then dragged out the weed whacker and got in close around the borders.

I was cleaning up the pathway around the back of the house when I heard, over the sound of the weed whacker motor, a dull thwack. I instantly knew a stone had hit a window. It was exactly the same sound the old safety glass car windcreens made when they broke.

Sure enough, the 2 meter high sliding door window on the back of the house was in a thousand pieces. Dang.

It’s still in the frame – just. One small push and it will be all over the pathway. I ducked down to the SES unit and got a 4 foot wide strip of the black plastic we use for storm damage repairs and taped that over the inside of the window, so even if the glass came tumbling down overnight it wouldn’t come into the house.

I called the glazier last night and he’s coming over today.

The Victorian Police recently launched a new news website; Simon Overland has been pushing it around the ‘net.

Of much more interest, however, is that they’re now using twitter to publish information about newsworthy events they’re involved in. It’s early days, and they still haven’t really leveraged it. Their contact page, for example, is olde worlde – a phone number and an email address.

The rest of this blog post is Adelaide’s christmas letter to Santa. The editor accepts no responsibility for its content.

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dear santa,

can i please have…a mote  control aeropiane sonic unleased madegascar star wars indiana jones wii games but not a aeraplane game.A moon board  a hanna montana guitar game a tiger cub a princess mobile phone a princess jasmine laptop and a baby carrya .

love adelaide.