You write a prompt, hit enter, and watch the console light up green. Code pours out. It feels like magic. Then you try to maintain the thing a week later, and you realize your shiny new AI agent just built a leaking bucket.
A while ago I was pointed at Noise Ninja which is a great program for reducing picture noise. While investigating, I found a few other options, but no open source options. Looking at it again today I found that there are a few plugins for The GIMP in the works: most notably Dcam Noise 2, but also ISO noise reduction. I wonder what's keeping the open source world away on this, but I'm glad to see someone's working on it at least. At the moment I'm just adding a bit of blur to my images using GIMPShop and *shriek* iPhoto 5
In my photoblog I've started a series on manual lenses. The first lens out is a Hanimex 72-162mm f/3.5 lens with a FD mount that I'm using with my Canon EOS 20D and a FD-EOS adapter. It's my defacto concert-lens and I'll be starting off with a series of concert pictures. Next up is a MIR-1 37mm f/2.8 M42 mount lens. Be sure to follow the photoblog for the next couple of days and see if you find these lenses usable. I've payed £10 for the 72-162mm and $20 for the MIR-1 through eBay, so perhaps you'll find that you can have great lenses for a bargain! 
Then again, perhaps you'll conclude that it's a waste of time and money and be glad that I tested this and not you. Let me know what you think!
Wooo!!! As of 15 minutes ago I'm officially a home owner, owning my own 3-room apartment of a whopping 93 m^2. Wee!
If you didn't notice Tao of Mac's post, go read it. Your /var/log/windowserver.log on your Tiger system may be updated every time you press a key. Mine certainly was. Good thing there is a solution, although it should have been patched by Apple long time ago. Buggar that. Oh well, patched manually. Now back to playing Lemmings, the DHTML version