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On my recent trip to Brazil to visit the rain forest and Rio de Janiero, I carried a lot of photo gear by some standards, and very little by others. It'll sound like a lot when I list it out; in comparison to previous extended overseas trips, it was actually less than usual.

Just a quick thought this morning - if you combine the new Verizon MiFi portable access point with an Eye-Fi Explore memory card with its built-in wifi, you can have your digital camera upload photos from the field (anywhere there is 3G signal) as you're shooting, without any computer on-site. Could make for a very interesting setup, especially if traveling within the US. The added bonus, of course, is that having the MeFi means that you, and everyone you're traveling with, has access to the Internet (and, via Skype, voice calls) from their laptop in the car, hotel or wherever you are.

Nikon has finally released official details of its (not-so-secret) successor to the D80, the new Nikon D90. I've carried a D70 for almost four years now, and I've waited as the D70s and D80 both succeeded it in its place in the lineup. I also resisted the siren call of the D300 -- mainly because it was just so heavy, I couldn't see myself carrying it all the time -- and if you don't carry a camera, what's the point in having it? The D90 is a fantastic "practical compromise" design for amateur photographers -- the image quality of the D300 with the compact size of the D60 and D80. I do wish they would drop the "scene" modes already (in four years, I've never once used them on my D70) but I guess they are compelling enough to a large enough segment of mainstream buyers and don't get in the way of more serious users. I do notice that I see a lot of tourists in my neighborhood carrying the heavier, more expensive D300 (thanks, weak dollar) so the D90 will more than likely be a hit with both the "prosumer" and "prospender" crowds.

Amazon's not taking pre-orders yet, but the minute they start, I'll be getting in line.

Steve Jobs took $200 out of my wallet today. And I wasn't a v1 iPhone buyer... but I knew this was coming. July 11. He might as well have taken it from my wallet while I was asleep and left an iPhone (the iPhone fairy?)

Worse, it's probably more than $200... since I suspect I'll need the 16GB model.
Updated: Mahalo offers the 60 second edit of the Steve Jobs's WWDC keynote.

As you can probably tell if you've visited this page any time in the past few years, there's some major changes going on right now. After much frustration around my old host (including today being unable to download a copy of my files there due to the server being so slow), I've surrendered to the inevitable and moved to a new company, LivingDot.

The move has a number of downsides (at the moment, any links to within the old site are broken and I haven't decided if I'm going to change the link format to address that.) But in general, the move is a huge improvement and should result a lot of good things happening here.

In terms of the photoblog that used to front Karlo.Org, I'll be getting that content over on this site at some point soon. Going forward, the site will likely mix written and photographic content -- I originally switched to the photos-only format because work limited my ability to write online, but that restriction is now lifted so I'm moving back to a more varied format.