Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/03

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Subject: [Leica] Still kicking
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 14:09:32 +0100
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Thanks Richard and Ric,

I knew someone would bring me back up to speed. :-)

Daniel

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Richard Man <richard.lists at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> Back in Norway?! Must be cold!! Welcome back.
>
> The big hot thing is of course the M9. A small number of people have
> gotten it and without a doubt, all the pictures are at least 33%
> better than the ones from the M8 :-)
>
> Then there are those of use who have no more kidneys to sell so we
> make do with lesser Leicas and sometimes even OT equipments.
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:40 AM, Daniel Ridings <dlridings at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> I just wanted to say hi to old friends. I'm still kicking, though fairly 
>> lamely.
>>
>> Been in a rut and moved my activities from one country to another
>> while I live in a third. Same old rat-race.
>>
>> Also changed computers from PC to Mac. I had to get a new one and at
>> the time, only machines with Vista were being delivered. I couldn't
>> wait for Windows 7 so I went with OS X. I've certainly not become a
>> Mac-fanatic. It's alright, but there are a lot of things that are
>> extremely irritating (like the design flaw of not having a right-hand
>> mouse key and the idiotic placement of the cmd key right to the right
>> of the space bar, where we touch-typists hit it all the time, thinking
>> we'll find the "alt" key there, resulting in everything we were doing
>> getting lost).
>>
>> This one will go down into the grave with me:
>>
>> http://dlridings.se/blog/2009/11/29/holdsworth-mistral-on-the-road-again/
>>
>> And this is what it looks like up here in the early afternoon:
>>
>> http://dlridings.se/blog/2009/11/03/afternoon-walk-in-trondheim/
>>
>> Haven't got my scanning trimmed in for the Mac yet. Been mostly
>> digital and off-topic stuff.
>>
>> Anyway, greetings!
>
> --
> // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com
> // w: http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/Portfolio09/ blog:
> http://rfman.wordpress.com
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>
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Replies: Reply from ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter) ([Leica] Still kicking)
In reply to: Message from dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] Still kicking)
Message from richard.lists at gmail.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] Still kicking)