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

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Subject: [Leica] Still kicking
From: richard.lists at gmail.com (Richard Man)
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 04:50:00 -0800
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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!

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