The past week of work was a humbling one that required several trips to the local pub with some British co-workers. We did a new software release on Tuesday that vastly improved our system, but some of the changes proved to be incompatible with other systems and the ripple effect took days to fix up and caused lots of headaches for those affected. In general I feel like I’m one of the best at what I do, but this experience definitely left my confidence a bit shaken.
In other news, ever since the Antarctica trip I’ve been debating whether or not to buy a digital camera, and today I finally ordered one. With the top of the line Canon 1D Mark II going for about $4500 I obviously had to scale back my ambitions a bit, but the Canon 10D (hereafter referred to as “Excalibur”) still cost me almost four times what my old Canon Elan 7 sells for. Excalibur should be a great tool for improving my photo technique, will save money in film and developing, and will allow me to post photos online immediately. The biggest advantage, however, is that new toys are cool.