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Thanks for the comment. I gave up an got a refund ...

2010-06-08T21:26:49.661+09:00

Thanks for the comment. I gave up an got a refund from them. Only for the "unused" part of the subscription though.

It's broke for me too. It hangs all the time. Mozy...

2010-06-07T03:58:23.912+09:00

It's broke for me too. It hangs all the time. Mozy server error 12 is common, and more often than not my backups fail. They seem to have some fundamental problem with their system that they are unable to resolve.

Thanks. Lucky timing for the boat in the foregroun...

2010-05-08T20:57:23.441+09:00

Thanks. Lucky timing for the boat in the foreground.

That is a wonderful photo! - Hugo

2010-05-04T08:32:25.015+09:00

That is a wonderful photo!

- Hugo

Nice pictures! You are really a photographer! ---M...

2009-12-24T00:45:13.241+09:00

Nice pictures! You are really a photographer! ---Minfu

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2009-11-27T19:34:17.519+09:00

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Takng pictures in the eary morning was fun. It was...

2009-10-13T22:26:41.439+09:00

Takng pictures in the eary morning was fun. It was easy to blow out the highlights with all the white mist.

When I first visited Japan, in 1993, we had a trip up to Amanohashidate. But that was a long time ago.

The main problem I find is traffic jams on the roads, so it takes an hour to do 10km. That has always puts me off driving.

I did not know Hyogo was so big.

Looks fun. "Mist in the valley" is amazing. Hyogo...

2009-10-13T12:52:05.233+09:00

Looks fun. "Mist in the valley" is amazing.

Hyogo might seem far away, but there are plenty of places in Kyoto Prefecture that are even farther.... Kyoto Prefecture goes way north and west, all the way to the ocean.

The observatory is on the far side of Hyogo, itself huge (the biggest prefecture after Hokkaido, landwise), so it's further from you than any point in Kyoto Prefecture, but only by a sliver.

Thanks for the comment. I had already got the PDF ...

2009-10-11T21:52:25.470+09:00

Thanks for the comment. I had already got the PDF version for the camera and for all the software packages that come with it. The version that I downloaded has a COPY watermark across it when printing so I haven't bothered to actually print it out.

I had not thought about trying to get a printed manual from Canon. I will look into that, thanks for the suggestion.

FYI, for consumer goods marketed to English speaki...

2009-10-11T21:00:01.449+09:00

FYI, for consumer goods marketed to English speaking countries like your camera, you can often get an English manual from the company. I got English manuals for my Japan-bought Nikon cameras directly from Nikon for 600 yen. And of course, many of these things are available for free via PDF (for example, here is your camera's manual).