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Low light shot of Optimus Prime on my son's bookshelf. Shot with a 50mm F.17 manual focus lens; it's a good thing that my body has shake reduction built into the body as it would have been a tough shot without it!

It's not often that I get excited about software these days but after the loss of a laptop drive over the holiday season, I was forced to reexamine my backup strategy which, up to that point, had been simply plugging in an external USB drive from time to time and using Apple's Time Machine to grab a snapshot of the contents of my drive.

Needless to say, I was caught out by a busy schedule and ended up losing about a week's worth of photos because I had forgotten to plug the drive in after a previous shooting session. As a result, I started to look for something to complement Time Machine and spent some time looking at the consumer offering from the folks at Crashplan.com.

Get a new Life with Playstation with a new update released by Sony today. Update through the Folding@home application on the XMB (approximately 500MB) and get access to a slew of dynamically updated web content (folding@home, news, weather, and live camera feeds) from around the world.

"Life with PlayStation® provides dynamic, web-based content organized into unique channels that can be browsed by time and location. While you are browsing any channel, your PS3™ system can contribute to Stanford University's Folding@home™ distributed computing network."