Still worth getting ExiftoolGui for other purposes. Seems to read stuff I hadn't noticed on Photome and it can save the Exif data in various formats including text and html. Also does lossless rotations.

As I don't use a camera that takes AA's I've not kept up to date with RH's ramblings. Last time I looked he was recommending Japanese made Ni-Mh by Panasonic. I've used them in an *istDS that I used to have and they were excellent. I still use the same batteries in my flashguns. Unfortunately I think the Panasonics now sold in the UK are from China and not as good.

Eneloops might be the safest bet even though their capacity is only around 2100MaH.

Energizer Lithiums are good if you don't use the camera a lot.
Sainsbury's were doing them for £3.99/4

If you haven't already got it Exiftool is very good.
Better used through the GUI ExiftoolGui link

Ricehigh has fully covered the K-x batteries link

It's amazing how many adavanced/expensive programs (even Windows OS itself) still have stupid bugs in them going back years. The marketing people just couldn't care less.

It used to anoy me that Word couldn't use a highlighted/selected word as an input for search and replace, yet Wordpad and even the DOS Edit program could For anyone wanting to change say part no's in a large document it was a pain I think they eventually corrected it in 2003, but from memory I don't think it worked if there was a space in the characters selected.

I've not used Office for years but last time I did I was surprised that Excel couldn't handle DMS.... had to convert to Radians and then back

There are programs that let you save or strip off the EXIF Data and put it back later. PhotoMe seems to have a menu item for it, but there are probably better programs specially for that purpose.

I prefer popups and adverts to these annoying green highlighted posts

Some type of Cormorant.

Nice to see what the inside of a mine looks like. I'm also curious as to what they are mining? Some sort of iron ore?

The Photobucket link won't work without a password.

Plenty of identical copies on ebay. I can't tell them apart