> Don't mean to sound ignorant, but where in America can you get Photo CD's
> made?  I mean what kinds of places do them, ordinary photo developers?

I'd ask your local camera store, or non-drive-up photo-finishing place.

> Also really quick, what do you need to view the photos and around how
> much do they cost?

For the Mac platform (and probably Windows too), Kodak has produced software
to view and minimally manipulate the images.  Kodak has also produced a piece
of hardware like a CD-player which accepts Photo CD's and displays them to
your TV.

To manipulate the image, Photoshop 2.5 has built-in plug-ins to read from
the Photo CD directly, which you can then save in Photoshop format.

> Quick question, at live events in Japan do they check people for audio
> tape recorders?  I assume camcorders, cameras, and the like aren't always
> allowed but what about audio recorders?  The small ones...

I gave some serious thought to smuggling in a micro-recorder to the Princess
Minerva event.  The bag search was cursory at best, and I could have just
stuck it deep in my jacket pocket and it would never have been noticed.
However, the fellow in the seat next to me was pretty loud and would have
drowned out the sound from the PA system.  The human ear is good at selectively
filtering that stuff out, a machine (with an omnidirectional mike) is not.

Jeff