Well it's official... Technotropolis has recieved 1,000 hits.
The blog went live in January 2006, so its taken a year
to reach 1,000 hits. Which equals to 2.74 hits per day...

All you space monkeys need to be visiting my blog at least
once per day... even if I only post once a week ;)

Here Endeth the Humiliation

I recently came across a company called Creative Home Engineering that has a website for creating secret rooms in your house. Personally I like the pool table coming up out of the middle of the room animation.

All joking aside I can see a technological application for this. In the hidden room is all the servers and electronic backbones for a smart house. It gives you access to the room using a keypad. That way its not completely obvious to the casual visitor where the computer(s) running the house are located.

Check out the website

I've decided that I should probably get off
my political soapbox.

Recently Nikon has announced that it will be
steamlining its 35mm camera sales in response
to the ever-growing digital camera market.

"The measures that Nikon will adopt include
discontinuing production of all large format
Nikkor lenses and enlarging lenses, as well
as several of our film camera bodies, manual
focus Nikkor interchangeable lenses and related
accessories." Nikon

Now while I'm all for the camera industry
embracing digital mediums further, I think that
discontinuing the Nikkor lenses is probably
a mistake.

It seems to me that this is a move similar
to Eastman Kodak's downsizing last year
due to changes in the market.

More and more people are purchasing digital
cameras and printing them out on their own
printers, rather than having them developed.
I can't really blame either company for trying
to be more financially viable.