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In the past two weeks, I attended three 21st birthday parties. Given the fact that I haven’t been around the age of 21 for quite some time, I consider that to be a lot of 21st’s given the time frame. My sister (whose 21st party was one of those three), being in that age range, has been seemingly attending 21st birthday parties non-stop ever since uni exams finished (perhaps slightly exaggerated, but you get my point).

Also happening within the last couple of months or so were a number of engagements. Given a rather dry engagement-less patch earlier in the year, it was interesting to hear news of several couples all getting engaged all within a few weeks of each other.

I guess it might be something to do with it being pretty close to the season to be jolly…

Speaking of seasons, we’re supposed to be in Spring right now. However, the temperature over the last week or so has been a bit interesting. It’s almost as if the weather has gotten a bit confused with what season it’s meant to be in. One day (or night, to be exact) it would get into the single-digit temperatures, and on another day it would almost hit forty degrees. *sigh*

On a semi-related note, there’s been some updates to the gallery.

Ok, I’m starting to get to the point where I feel like I’m spending too much money on equipment. But then I think about amortising it over the expected life of this kind of gear, and I don’t feel as bad. Anyway, I picked up a wide-angle lens to cover the remaining gap in my focal lengths about two weeks ago and I’ve been testing it out a bit. I got a good exercise last Friday at the Sydney Motor Show at Darling Harbour. For photos, check out our gallery.

Watch, as Ted Haggard gets owned by Richard Dawkins.

Do you think he got a bit carried away at the end? How do you rate his responses to the questions that Richard was asking? Feel free to discuss.

Edit: Check out this article on SMH for more info about what happened to Ted recently.

According to this article, it looks like the ATO is considering placing a tax on virtual transactions that occur when you’re playing games online. For those of you who play games that fall under this category (yeah, you know who all you WoW players are), I’d like to hear your thoughts on this matter, and what effect (if any) it would have on you.