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The D40 kit 18-55mm plus a Nikon 24mm f2.8 (manual focus on the D40 unfortunately but still worth the effort). - Fraser Smith

Sigma 10-20mm, Nikon 24mm f/1.8, Sigma 30mm f/1.4, Nikon 50mm f/1.8, Nikon 85mm f/1.8, Nikon 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5. Thinking of dropping the needle on a Sigma 18-50 f/2.8. I do love my primes. - cecily

Nikon 10.5mm ƒ2.8, Nikon 24mm ƒ2.8, Nikon 50mm ƒ1.8 + kit 18-55mm which usually sits at home - Tsega Dinka

Nikon 18-200/3.5-5.6, Nikon 50mm 1.8, Nikon 70-200/2.8. The last one is my best one but I rarely end up using it since it's a bit large/heavy and the 18-200 works well enough in most situations. Need a macro at some point but holding off for a bit. - Gus Perez

Just added the Sigma 30mm f1.4. It's my new favorite lens. - Tsega Dinka

I'm thinking of getting the Sigma 50mm f1.4 after reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp...">reading this</a> but it costs more than the Nikon 50mm f/1.4. I wish I could get my hands on one as a rental before I made the commitment. - cecily

Wow, that sigma 50 does look enticing. I wouldn't mind upgrading my nikon 50 f1.8 with it. Let me know your thoughts if you end up getting it. - Tsega Dinka

24-120 mm/f.3.5 and 50 mm/f.1.8 - Tamon Yanagimoto

I have a 18-55mm kit that came with my D40x and then I added a 18-200VR. I have my eye on the new 50mm 1.4 now... - Tony Vota

24-120 and 50 - Tamon Yanagimoto

I want the 85mm one. (dreams) - John μller

My weapon of choice is the slightly older 50mm f/1.4D: http://www.amazon.com/Nikon-5.... Amazing, amazing, amazing. - DeWitt Clinton

Trying to get details on what they changed in the f/1.4G over the f/1.4D. Silent wave motor (don't care so much), new 9-blade diaphram (unnecessary? the bokeh in the f/1.4D is already awesome), closer min focal distance of 18" (this is an improvement, but not incredible), and the body of the lens is much nicer/modern looking in my opinion. Probably worth it if you don't already own a fast 50mm or are upgrading from the old f/1.8, but not worth buying to replace a f/1.4D. - DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt: The motor is what I like best. I have a D40 and a 50mm 1.8 which is great but can't auto focus due to the lack of a motor. It's too new to purchase but the moment there is a price drop I'll be picking this up and selling my 1.8. - Benjamin Golub

@Ben - Ooh, well that makes all the difference! - DeWitt Clinton

50MM4LYFE. I use the same lens as DeWitt and it's fantastic. - Akiva Moskovitz

Just got back from holiday. I really could have used a fast 50mm a lot. This is exactly what I need. Thanks - Roberto Bonini

I love 1.4 lenses, great for indoor/night photos with natural lighting. Canon has a f/1.2 lens, but it's super expensive. - Ray Cromwell

I hear the quality of the Canon 1.2 is not proportional to its price. I have the 1.4 and am very happy. - Tom Harrison

Good luck competing against FaceBook, MySpace, and LinkedIn. You're gonna need it at the borg :-) - Dave C

Wow. Congrats Omar! I've done that move. You'll like it, we miss our friends in Seattle. - Robert Scoble

Congrats Omar. - Loren Heiny

Congratulations! Been living here for almost a decade and it's a fantastic place to live. - Akiva Moskovitz

Congrats, I'm sure you'll like living in Seattle! - andrei_c

So, does Live Spaces still have some life left in it? I've had my personal blog there for 3.5 years, it seems to get reinvented every so often which means for about 6 months it's hard to use with a Mac. At first it was a really nice starter blog site! - Gordon Vaughan

I look forward to having you up here. We were in San Francisco (with Microsoft) before coming here and the weather isn't nearly as hard to take as you probably think it will be. After a few years you come to enjoy the cold and the rain. - Tommy Williams

These examples map poorly to my drinking habits. - Oldengrey (Jay)

tell me about it Jay - imagine trying to walk up the middle ones eh... - Zee.

I once had a loft with a cast iron spiral. I barely survived. - Oldengrey (Jay)

Lol...I had an awesome apartment in the heart of Soho in London - as awesome as it was, it was on the top floor, no lift and about for landing between ground floor and the apartment. The number of times my neighbours woke me up in the morning as they walked down the staircase finding me on the 3rd landing is embarassing. - Zee.

I've seen the laretto staircase in person, it's really incredible - anna sauce

That is crazy! I love the second one.. even though.. it would be hard to run up - Kyle Lacy

One of the best posts I've ever seen. - Akiva Moskovitz

Hanging spiral stairs DO WANT - Candace

awww, i'm blushing Akiva. Candace - yeah the first one above and the black spiral really float my boat. - Zee.

Not wheelchair accessible!!!!!!!!!!! - Rochelle

You've never seen Escher's wheelchair, have you. - Akiva Moskovitz

akiva, :) - edythe

OMG! I love it! I have a preoccupation with stairway walks. this is too much for me! *swoon* (and everyone makes fun of me too) - Anna Lynn M.

I love them! They immediately remind me of a staircase/library featured on one of the home restoration shows on TV. Article in Apartment Therapy here http://twurl.nl/qedgfa - Allison Kipta

somehow i just can't stop stairing... - Cecil Sandus

Lol Cecil - Zee.

no no, i can't take credit - i believe it was the posts name. I gotta say though - I had NO idea there were so many stair junkies on friendfeed! - Zee.

very cool. My stairs set on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Thomas Hawk

they are superb pictures Thomas, damn. - Zee.

Nice, Thomas! - Yolanda

I bought a donut and the guy gave me a recieipt for the donut. I don't need a receipt for the donut: I give you the money, you give me the donut, end of transaction. We do not need to bring ink and paper into this. I can not imagine the senerio where I would have to prove that I bought a donut. Some skeptical friend: don't even act like I didn't get that donut. I got the documentation right here. - Mark Trapp

This is great news. I loved Mitch's stuff. - Gus Perez

Louis, awesome! FriendFeed has some serious competition now - while these sites don't aggregate, I know a lot of people that use FriendFeed because of the conversation as a primary reason. - Jesse Stay

I guess we'll see how clients design their use of this feature. In my case, I've found the Twhirl FriendFeed support hard to follow/use, I think, mostly due to how the thread is being re-displayed often. It would be cool if there was a view mode that just shows the updates in reverse order (as twitter works today) but have a button that expands that post (maybe in another floating window) with the rest of the thread around it. Something like that might make it more usable. - Gus Perez

Gus, I agree - I hate the Twhirl UI for FriendFeed. I wish it could be done in a little better manner. The other difference is the Twitter API enables completely recursive comments, which means you can comment on other comments, and that could be infinite. Interesting problem for clients like Twhirl... - Jesse Stay from twhirl

Like it,good Twitter's move - Igor Poltavskiy

I didn't know Posty worked on indenti.ca as well, thanks Louis - Mo Kargas

wait a minute. is www.posty.com the single worst website i've seen in quite a long time or, and this is quite possible, am i missing something? found the download at http://spreadingfunkyness.com/posty... - Christian Anderson

http://spreadingfunkyness.com/posty... is the URL. - Louis Gray

now if it only were something else then Air. don't need another memory hog. - Alexander Kucera

Posty you say?????? hmmmmmmm - Erin @queenofspain

ping.fm is godhead - adolfo foronda

Using Twhirl and Posty - Twhirl to interact - Posty for blog posts .... - Charlie Anzman

partial to ping.fm myself. - Admiral Anika

Posty is awesome. I also love Ping.fm - now available from friendfeed thanks to a greasemonkey script. - Sarah Perez

ping.fm is my choice. Excellent service. - Håkan Dahlström

The screencast on the Posty site shows "Hello from Posty" as the message being posted and when it shows the resulting post on FriendFeed, it's "Hello form Posty." :) - Gus Perez

@Mo If you want more news about Posty send me a message to posty AT spreadingfunkyness.com @Alexander I chose Adobe Air as cross-os platform. I agree with you that it is a bit memory hungry. @charlie with Posty you can also interact. @gus I recorder many takes, it wasn't easy to find all the services responsive in the same time span. I probably misplaced some window. Thanks for notifying the error. - funkyboy from Posty

I am using http://Ping.fm for mult-posting needs...works VERY well!! Twitter, Identi.ca, Facebook, Jaiku, etc... - Susan Beebe

I have as well. NIN - A Warm Place, and Plastic Bag Theme and Any Other Name from the American Beauty soundtrack. Those three randomized and on infinite loop is dubbed my "infinite absolution" playlist. - Nic Boman

I'll check out Plastic Bag Theme. You should, if you haven't already, listen to "28 Ghosts IV" of NIN's Ghosts I-IV album. Closest I've seen to A Warm Place. - Gus Perez

Dive Into Python (worked great for me), and The Django Book for web dev :) - Yuvi

A couple months ago, Benjamin Golub had recommended these two: http://python.net/~goodge... and http://www.diveintopython.org/ Haven't had a chance to go through them myself, though. - Mark Trapp

Duh. Remind me to refresh - Yuvi

Dive Into Python is great. You can read it online (for free) if you'd like, or see how you like it before buying a printed copy. - DGentry

If you are not able to follow Drive Into Python at first then give A Byte of Python(http://www.ibiblio.org/g2swap...) a try and then continue with Drive Into Python. - Sudar

I grabbed Learning Python and it seemed pretty decent to me. Dive Into Python, to my untrained eyes, seemed dated? - felix

Lots of good online material for Pyhton, I picked up an O'Reilly pocket reference to supplement when I was exploring Python a year ago. - David Knight

Damn Google to Hell for re-invigorating this annoying language - Jason Carreira

I'm thinking of learning Python as well. IronPython got me thinking along those lines. - Roberto Bonini

the django book is online - Fred Grott

thanks everyone for the recommendations! - Rob Diana

@Jason, why do you find Python annoying? - Rob Diana

Indentation being significant? "self" references needed? The indentation one alone made things like passing multi-line code blocks incredibly cumbersome... They basically painted themselves into a corner then started rationalizing about how the corner was really the best place to be anyway. - Jason Carreira

I was hoping you would not bring up indentation :) - Rob Diana

I recently decided to take a look at Python as well and it's been fun and interesting. I picked up a copy of O'Reilly's Learning Python as it seemed fairly current and also picked up a Django book. I've been coding for a while as well and I had some of the same feelings Jason's describing. Being explicit with 'self' seemed a bit strange, and I also was bitten a few times so far with the indentation (though I blame my actual problems with that more on the IDE I was using). - Gus Perez