Two things...

The mysterious Canon 3D - I believe its was used at Roswell

No 1.

I was playing around with the settings in Lightroom this morning and changed the settings for the 'automatically write changes to XMP'. As a result of this when I ran the back up program it detected changes to all my images and so proceeded to back all of them up - that is over 36k of images! Now if this is only a one off then I can live with this but if it happens every time I go to back up photographs/images then I will have to uncheck the option and slap myself on the wrist and stand on the naughty step.

No 2.

I never cease to be amazed at people. I drop into the DPReview forums from time to time just to see what is happening. I must say it does get depressing. I usually just visit the 'Canon EOS-1D / 1Ds / 5D Forum' to see if there is any interesting information to pick up. Inevitably it boils down to baseless rumours about the next Canon release, usually backed up by doctored photographs of a Canon camera with a new model number added - see Canon 3D above or some slanging match or another about some minor point or another. Now I am all for free speech and I am aware that what I write/think is mainly a maudlin collection of inane observations but I just wonder at what drives people to circulate such rumours or get so agitated about some minor infraction/different view. I just wonder how the main contributors to such forums find the time to contribute to the forums at the rate they do and make photographs. If you are wondering why I haven't posted such views - well I have and got FLAMED!