Holy crap!

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0703/07030805sigma200500mm.asp

And I thought my 70-200mm F2.8 Canon L lens was cool.... At least I can carry it ;)

Reef Aquarium Galleries

Check out my new Reef Aquarium Galleries. I will be regularly updating these galleries so be sure to visit regularly. Comment here if you have any opinions/suggestions. To access the galleries, you can always use the link at the top right of this blog.

.NET never ceases to amaze

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810218

In essence - when you do a Server.Redirect("SomePage.aspx?SomeParam=SomeValue") .NET conveniently will make that SomeParam persisted over the subsequent requests - i.e. if SomePage.aspx contains a form to be submitted, that form's action will be rewritten to include this param. Neat? No! How do you clear a querystring parameter no longer used? You can't. At least not elegantly.

This is why I prefer J2EE - you have to work harder, but you almost never have to implement workarounds to work around unneeded high level features.

Predator Tank - Food Issues

I purchased a small Bamboo Shark a couple of days ago. He was eating at the LFS but not in my tank. Experience told me that sometimes these animals don’t eat not because they are not hungry, but rather because they do not like what you are offering. Take my ribbon eel - refuses anything but LM prawns. My shark - eats scallops, LM prawns and once in a while a piece of line fish. My snowflake eel eats anything - squid, LM prawns, lance fish, krill, linefish, etc. My zebra eel only eats LM prawns and krill. Will take one piece of lance fish but refuse any more. My Bird wrasse eats anything.

In HTML development...

less is always more.