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Well I broke down and picked up yet another new Canon body. As a result I will be selling off my Canon 40D body, BG-E2 Battery grip, 4 batteries, 2 chargers, strap, software, manuals and even the original box.
I purchased this body in March 2008 and it was primary camera until the end of January 2009 when it was relegated as a back up body and as a primary sports/air show body.
The full package includes:
Canon 40D body and caps
Canon Strap
Canon BG-E2 Battery Grip with AA Battery Adapter
1 Canon Battery BP-511
3 BP-511 equivalent batteries purchased from Sterlingtek.com
1 Canon Charger
1 Sterlingtek charger
Original Box
Manuals
Software
Cables
Warranty Card

Total price for the whole package is 925.00
Please contact me at sysguy at sysguy dot com if interested in seeing it.

I do use this blog as a personal blog as well as a test website for my hosting business. Well today I was doing an upgrade to WordPress and the upgrade failed. Of course I hadn’t done a backup of the site before I started as all previous upgrades have gone without a hitch!
So I run the upgrade it fails, then I uninstall and reinstall WordPress hoping that my data will still be there! Whoops restart and everything is gone. So I look for an old back here at home and I can’t find one on any of my PCs. I end up calling my hosting providor and ask if they can restore from the backup. 30 minutes later I have my data back! Thank you!
I lost my themes and some little tweaks I had made but no big deal as I will start testing some new themes on this site now. I am also hoping to post more on this site in the next little while!

I have posted a number of times over at my Main Blog site. http://sysguy.com/wordress, about the Photo sharing sites that  use.

There are actually 4 sites that I am using now. 2 are less active and I will be concentrating on two. My two favorites are Smugmug and Flickr. Here are the links to my sites:

Smugmug
http://www.sysguyphotography.com

Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/sysguy

Picasaweb
http://picasaweb.google.com/srkennedy

Gallery 2.0
http://photos.chinookcity.com

Please feel free to browse my photos and comment on them.

You may have read the post I put up a couple of months ago regarding the TV show Jetstream on Discovery Canada Channel. I had inquired with the production company about the availabilty of the series on DVD.

Yesterday in my Inbox I got the following note:

Just an update for you that we are releasing the Jetstream DVD Box Set with over 30 minutes of never seen before bonus material at the end of June. We have your email and will contact you with the details once they are finalized.

Best,

The Jetstream Production Team

Jetstream was a great show following several Canadian CF-18 Fighter Pilot Trainees through the course.

I am really looking forward to the DVD release!

I just finished listening to Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency audio book from Audible.com

The audio book is is actually a dramatization by BBC Audio Books starring Andrew Sachs (Fawlty Towers), Billy Boyd (Lord of the Rings) and Harry Enfield (Several British TV Shows and Commercials).

It is a fairly short read (3 hours and 49 minutes) but it is quite memorable. There are several quotes that I really liked from this book, "These lunch breaks are becoming daily".

If you have read any of Douglas Adams’ (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series) books you should really enjoy this book.

The story revolves around the murder of a wealthy businessman and the unusual way the the Holistic Detective, Dirk Gently (Enfield) who usually finds missing cats for old ladies, ,solves the case and clears his University friend Richard MacDuff (Boyd) using his special talents. I don’t want to give away any more of  the ending!

I chuckled out loud several times during the listening of this book. While short it is very well done with good sound effects and ambience.

I highly recommending listening to this book or reading the print version.