No, I don’t mean PUT gas (what you call petrol) in your car. I mean GAS it!

In Germany; a liter of regular gasoline now costs about $9.40 per gallon.

A German man doused his BMW with gasoline and torched it on Friday in protest at skyrocketing fuel costs, police said. The unemployed 30-year-old man drove the black 1995 BMW 3-series sedan onto the lawn outside Frankfurt’s convention center.

He then jumped out, emptied a canister of gas over the vehicle, and set fire to it, Wagner said.

By the time the fire department got to the scene, the car was entirely burned out.

Now he doesn’t have the fuel cost problem.

~Boz

I know you know that I’ve been following this year’s American Idol!

Here is our winner!

Do you have Oreo Cookies in Australia?
They are good and yummy and especially good with milk.

A truck spilled 14 tons of them!

Have a look HERE

I thought you’d be interested to know about the flea-sized ants that has invaded Texas.

Apparently, they feed on electronics. Computers, burglar alarm systems, gas and electricity meters, iPods, telephone exchanges – all are considered food.

Recently they ruined pumps at a sewage facility. Now they are making their way to Nasa’s Johnson Space Centre and William P. Hobby airport.

The ants – also known as paratrenicha species near pubens – have so far spread to five counties in the Houston area. Scientists are not sure from where they originate but they seem to be related to a type of ant from the Caribbean. “At this point it would be nearly impossible to eradicate the ants because they are so widely dispersed,” said Roger Gold, a Texas A&M University entomologist. He added that the only upside to the invasion was that the crazy rasberry ants ate fire ants, which sting humans during the long, hot Texas summers.

More information HERE

~Boz

I know I’ve told you about Maryland’s tornadoes, droughts, wicked thunderstorms, hurricanes, blizzards, floods, rains, and even our pestilance [the 17 year cicadas], but apparently we have another event I have missed.

It seems in Pikesville, in Baltimore County at night, the people there are hearing loud booms followed by flashes of light. It remains a mystery as to why this is happening, but police are looking into it.

More Here and Here

~Boz

With Politics in the main  headlines in the U.S., one mayor in Chile might have the key on “how to get elected.”

 He said any man 60 years and older who wants it can have up to four Viagra pills a month after undergoing a thorough medical exam.

More on the story HERE

Just thought I’d let you know that I have upgraded our Wordpress blog to the latest and newest version!

Be warned, the dashboard sure is different!

~Boz

I couldn’t resist publishing my speed test with Cable internet here.

~Boz

just updating you on my camera stuff
i went out and bought a Pentax 10-17mm fisheye lens (or is it fish eye ?) the other weekend
i had been tossing up between that and the Sigma 10-20mm wide angle lens

it was a hard decision and took me a while

so far i have only played around with it, learining what works and what doesnt
and there is a lot that can go wrong
first off it is a fisheye and so has inherent distortion, bending any horizontal or vertical lines that dont run through the centre

also the field of view is so great you have to be careful what gets included in the photo, your feet for example or tripod legs, camera bag, fingers on the focusing ring

the wide view can also easily introduce the sun into the photo which can affect the exposure and also cause increased contrast with shaded areas coming out really black, with totally white skies

the minimum focus distance is about 25mm from the front glass, and things look a lot further away when looking through the viewfinfer, so i often touched flowers i was trying to photograph with the front glass. the closeness also means you can easily include your shadow or the lenses shadow

but once you have all that figured out it is a great, fun lens and i am really enjoying it
so far i havent taken it off my camera, I am really happy with my purchase, i just need more practise with it, weekends are to short lol

i have some photos on my web site, in the “experimental” section lol, I may move them once i am no longer experimenting . you can take a look here :-

http://www.johndolphin.net/photos/categories.php?cat_id=61

i would of posted pics but i cant remember how
i am such a bad blogger

Then….and now.