My LinkStation is now booting Debian Unstable, and have finally put a decent version of Samba on it so I can mount drives with CIFS. Apart from being a nice small network storage device, now that it's Debian I can do Interesting Things with it. My first hack will be to add a USB sound card, so that I can play Internet radio streams into my hifi.

Then those nice people from CityLink arrived and gave me a Canon Ixus 400 we bought off eBay. As much as I love the 300D, it's not exactly a pub camera. The Ixus is far smaller and I'll probably be bringing it to GUADEC.

My final toy was a Velbon MAXi 343 tripod. For a bargain price of £50 this is a pretty good tripod, it's very small when packed (45cm) but expands to 155cm+30cm, which is plenty for most people. It's full of little nice features like rubber feet which screw in to reveal spikes, legs which expand by flicking a switch, and an all-metal head.

In other news, I'm developing a snotty cold. I hope it will go before GUADEC...

NP: 100th Window, Massive Attack