Awake

Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends. The trigger is definitely getting caught up in dreams, I woke struggling out of a vivid, tightly recursive dream about commenting on a blog.

I cannot remember the first time I had insomnia, but I'm pretty sure it never happened before I went to university. It might be stress-related, because I always sleep very well while on holiday; but today has been a relatively calm and pleasant day (drank cappucino, bought CDs of Supertramp and Franz Liszt, got half a dozen books from the library, ate moderately and at a reasonable time). I didn't go to the Staatsgalerie while I was downtown, because I couldn't remember when my local mini-supermarket closed and didn't want to have to eat out or order pizza, but that was the only anxiety or disappointment of the day.

In other news I looked at digital cameras again, and am very close to purchasing the Canon A610; but cannot get a simple answer to what should be a simple question: does it require special software or a driver for use with a current Mac? What I want, is for the camera to appear automatically on the desktop as though it were an external hard disk, the way that my late lamented Nikon did. What I do not want, is to have to use special software to access the photos, or to have to install driver software to enable my Mac to see the camera. If any Mac-using A610 (or A620 or A640) owners happen to read this, I would be very grateful for a comment in clarification.

[Updated: thanks to all those who commented on this and my earlier post on the subject. I did indeed find a simple & straightforward answer from the Canon sales support team via their website - yes, it needs no driver or software, so Zhoen your tech.support guy was right :-) I ordered the camera this morning.]

And now, to bed - again.