Phil Askey, who runs dpreview.com (probably the best photography website on the net), just won the "Person of the Year" award from the PMDA for his efforts. Good to see his years of work gaining high-ranking recognition within the industry.

Quick tip - if you're just using ImageMagick to get dimensions of images, try using image_size instead, it's written in Ruby, works well, and installs really quickly, rather than the five years it seems rmagick to compile & install.

I just found this, it's the best way to run older versions of Internet Explorer on Windows:

• http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE

Apple's latest Mac OSX release, 10.5, dubbed "Leopard", does a great job to remedy the problem Rails developers had with previous releases - Ruby is now installed and works correctly, with Rails and a whole bunch of other common gems installed too. Awesome stuff.

On cup #2 of hot honey + lemon, looking forward to preparing the presentation for ORUG tonight.. and buying decongestants.