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Consider the following quotes concerning Josiah:

"No king before or after repented before the Lord as he did, with his whole heart, soul, and being in accordance with the whole law of Moses." - 2 Kings 23:25 (NET)

"The king ordered all the people, 'Observe the Passover of the Lord your God, as prescribed in this scroll of the covenant.' He issued this edict because a Passover like this had not been observed since the days of the judges; it was neglected for the entire period of the kings of Israel and Judah. But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah’s reign, such a Passover of the Lord was observed in Jerusalem." 2 Kings 23:21-23 (NET)

(Note that this second quote implies that David neglected the passover).

After much deliberation, and much indecision I picked up something new to play with. It was a tough choice between getting a Canon EOS-20D on clearance or one of these. I found the Digital Rebel XT ackward to hold. Eventually I decided that I simply couldn't justify the extra expense of the Canon camera, and I do already have a number of Nikon lenses. I'm still not a fan of what Nikon's done as far as software is concerned, but at least there is open-source software available that can handle a Nikon D50's raw files.

I've attached a couple of full-frame JPEGs (converted from RAWs) for your viewing pleasure - one of my microwave, and another one taken on a short walk to Bowness Park this evening. I think that, excepting these two, I'll probably leave my Gallery's auto-downsize feature on so that it spits out 800x600 JPGs of everything. I wonder how much bandwidth these photos alone will take. BTW, converting to TIFF leaves me with file sizes of over 30 megabytes.

I was listening to the news on the radio this morning, and overheard that the Calgary rental vacancy rate is expected to hit 1% this year. I wonder if those vacancy rates are lowest in the country at the moment. They're certainly lower than any vacancy rates for elsewhere that I've been able to uncover by googling around.

Anyways, on a related note, my landlord/ex-roommate is looking to fill a basement suite in the house that he bought. It's looking like my rental search may be at an end. This house is about 30 minutes from the university by transit I think.