That I found Killer mauling Caira’s presents or that the first thing I did was to grab the camera, lie on the ground and start snapping manically? -_-

Smoosh

Rwar

Grrrr

/stalk

So much for Caira’s presents…

Or: Woo!

“The repair will be another…4-6 weeks. Could you please ask the customer if he minds waiting for it?”
“…”

That is what we were told today when we called our repair centre to check on my camera. Under our own rules I’m entitled to an exchange if a repair goes outside of 28 days, which is on Tuesday coming, but we changed over the camera today as I’m about as likely to find religion as I am to have my 350D back by then. I was going to take another 350D as an exchange, but every camera we’ve left in stock was either ex-display or faulty, so I took a 400D instead. I’m happy with it so far, I took a few shots around town. The first thing I’ve noticed is that the 400D does a much better job than the 350D did on white balance. Even set to tungsten the 350D tended to put an orange tinge on photos, bleh.

This photo involved falling over

St Nick’s

They replaced my camera!

There’s nothing to cheer me up on a bad day like Sony with more egg on their face. Behold: alliwantforxmasisapsp.com (all i want for xmas is a psp). Blatant astroturf at best, but it gets better. As a few people have found, a whois on the site reveals that it was registered and created by a known astroturf company:

Registrant:
the ZIPATONI co.
Gregory Meyerkord
555 Washington Ave. 3rd Floor
St. Louis, MO 63101
US
Email: greg.meyerkord@zipatoni.com

Registrar Name….: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Registrar Whois…: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: www.register.com

Domain Name: alliwantforxmasisapsp.com

Created on…………..: Tue, Nov 14, 2006
Expires on…………..: Wed, Nov 14, 2007
Record last updated on..: Tue, Nov 14, 2006

Administrative Contact:
the ZIPATONI co.
Gregory Meyerkord
555 Washington Ave. 3rd Floor
St. Louis, MO 63101
US
Phone: +1.3142312400
Email: greg.meyerkord@zipatoni.com

Technical Contact:
Registercom
Domain Registrar
575 8th Avenue
New York, NY 10018
US
Phone: +1.9027492701
Email: domainregistrar@register.com

DNS Servers:

dns11.register.com
dns12.register.com

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Current Registrar: REGISTER.COM, INC.
IP Address: 209.176.182.74 (ARIN & RIPE IP search)
IP Location: US(UNITED STATES)-MISSOURI-LAKE ST. LOUIS
Lock Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
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Data as of: 14-Jun-2005

I saw a book by the name of Cat Consellor on sale in a local bookshop a few days ago, what caught my eye was the remarkably familiar and striking calico on the cover:

Okay, so the cat isn’t Killer, but she had enough in common with her that I did a double take:

This one enjoys her comforts