Me camera box has been actin' up a spell, me hearties. The flash weren't illuminatin' nothin' brighter'n you'd find in Davy Jones' locker, an' apace the whole contraption weren't movin' any faster'n a schooner on a sandbar. That's why two weeks hence, me an' the missus took the big jump offa the plank an' got us a new treasure.

It's a nice piece of equipment. We're happy with ... what? Did you think I was going to keep that up for the whole post? I appreciate International Talk Like a Pirate Day just as much as everyone, but that's hard to keep up when you're talking technology.

Anyway, since I was limited on how much we could spend (this being a single-income household, after all) I had to pass on the fancy digital SLRs this time around. I ended up with the same camera we had before -- a Kodak point-and-shoot -- with twice the megapixels (up from four to eight), triple the screen size, and half the bulk. Observe its majesty! (And see that in fact, I am still capable of taking pictures that don't have my daughter in them.)

My only issue is that graininess. What Ol' Not-So-Flashy lacked in sheer dimensions it made up for in sharpness. This looks like I'm blowing up a photograph in Microsoft Paint. I haven't figured out what settings I could change that might help. Any ideas?