I will soon have a good reason to disappear for a few days :)
Life always manages to surprise our short staying on this world. Almost a year ago I was hit by a multiple series of not so good events (article here). Those bad news were related to some people close to me that have been living different kind of issues. The months after I worked hard to fix what could be fixed. Of course some things cannot be fixed at all. It had been a time where I spent more energy than I could get back from the world around me. But as I told you, life is immensely surprising. And not only bad news come and go, also unexpected good news hit you from time to time
Particularly the news I am going to share you today will have a great influence on my life and also a bit on my work on 43rumors. That’s the reason why I choose to make it public. I will very soon become father for the very first time. The baby is “scheduled” to see the light of the world…guess when…January 1st! Of course you never know when that creature decides to jump out of the box
As we are pretty close to the event it could be that when this happens for a few days 43rumors will not be updated. If you see me not posting any news you should know that I have a good reason for it! And the first two weeks I will likely post less on this website. Could be that I skip the usual news-reviews coverage in favour of rumor posts only. And please don’t be upset if I don’t answer your mails or if your comments will take long time before they get approved! And expect me to double or triple the error rate in my already poor written English!
Thanks for your understanding!!!
P.S.: I am now going to the gynecologist with my wonderful girlfriend (and future wife). Will be offline for a few hours. And here are some more little news:
43rumors and Mirrorlessrumors design update:
A small design update on 43rumors is coming. And ipad and iphone versions are coming too.
Mirrorlessrumors will be completely redone and become a “vertical community” where to share stories and work and news around the mirrorless world (it will take 4-5 months to develop that).
Thinking on doing a personal blog:
As you know I decided to live somewhere in the middle of nowhere on the Pyrenees. I am thinking on doing a blog sharing some of my small experiences doing that life. I may do camera reviews by photographing cows and goats ![]()
Slidoo:
Last week I presented you my Slidoo.com project (article here). This is an easy search and notification service for eBay that soon will be expanded to Amazon too. I carefully discussed all your proposals and ideas with my programmers and most of them will be realized soon! Thanks for your help and keep using and testing it. I hope you will find it useful!




Pete
6 months ago |congratulations….
you just know that Olympus and Panny will release stuff at JUST the most inconvenient time now eh
Anonymous
6 months ago |Congrats Admin. It will be the greatest time of your life. Make sure you get a GH3 though. There is nothing like it for recording your kids growing up.
Are you taking suggestions for names? Admin Junior? Just kidding.
admin
6 months ago |lol! Will put him at work on 43rumors as soon as his english is better than mine. I guess we will have to wait until he is three
Hard2Xplain
6 months ago |Whoa!! congrat admin!!
I’ll give you a week to enjoy your new lovely creature!!
stonebat
6 months ago |Congrat admin!!! Capture the moment!!! No flash. Use a prime
Nico Foto
6 months ago |Congratulations!!! I’m on the same boat as you!!! “Scheduled” for May, though!
Genamari
6 months ago |Wow! It’s a great news for 4/3s fanboys also!
Congrats our web master and your (future) wife!
Chad
6 months ago |Congratulations!
eidrag
6 months ago |FT5? Congratulations! I’m very thankful to admin and other readers on this sites, sharing good news on m43. Hope nothing problematic on you!
pharine
6 months ago |FT5!CONGRADULATIONS!!!恭喜你!!!
yun
6 months ago |Congratulations to Admin & future wife .
Hopefully things will back to normal once you have news for my dream cam , OMD Pro or GL .
Peter Tsai
6 months ago |Congrats! That’s great news!
Gato
6 months ago |Congratulations. Great news.
Paddy
6 months ago |congratulations!
waiting for your baby’s pic in few days!
Mauro
6 months ago |Excellent news!
Congratulazioni
Robert
6 months ago |Congratulations!!! You have the best of all possible excuses. Enjoy life!
Dave
6 months ago |juuuuuuuhhhhh nice! my daughter is celebrating her first birthday on 02. febrauar! iam so happy
Robert Grant
6 months ago |Many congratulations!
Life’s greatest adventure is just about to begin, I wish you and your family nothing but health and happiness!
Robert de Buys
6 months ago |BdV
6 months ago |Congratulations Admin family! Hang on!
‘Live somewhere in the middle of nowhere on the Pyrenees’: Interesting. So you’re going to be a landscape Photographer?
admin
6 months ago |Nope..cow photographer
BdV
6 months ago |Haha! That’s cool! Really!
Marcelo Guarini
6 months ago |Congratulations Admin.
My best wishes to you and to your family
John Cantelo
6 months ago |Good to hear such good news (althogh your life will never be the same again!) Warmest congratulations to you both.
Harris
6 months ago |Congratulations!! That’s awesome news! Wish you guys the best…. what a gift for 2013, eh?
Brubru
6 months ago |Congrats! Maybe we wont see you more than just a few days…
pbl
6 months ago |Great news, i wish you, your girlfriend and your child the very best in the world.
And we will be almost neighbours, i live in Northern Portugal.
Love those mountains, i go every winter to Valle d’Aran.
Congrats.
Anonymous
6 months ago |Have to add my congratulations as well! Thanks for sharing, best wishes for the birth and those first few weeks. Ignore the site, enjoy your child.
SSP Eric
6 months ago |Congratulations! Fantastic news — best wishes to you all…
Wei
6 months ago |Best news ever! Is it a FT5? JK. Happy for you and your family.
If the baby comes in early, you will also get tax break for 2012.
Congrats!
Kev2
6 months ago |Congratulations!
marco
6 months ago |Congrats! I’m a fresh father too (3 months), so I know what it means… You’ll be forgiven for any (even prolonged) “downtime” on 43rumors
Anonymous
6 months ago |congratulations. that must be the fastest baby ever
Tyson Robichaud
6 months ago |Congrats Ale! Having recently become a father for the second time, I can say that life will certainly, never be the same, for great reasons.
Enjoy the transition into fatherhood, it truly is a special experience and all our best to your (future) wife.
t
Minstrel
6 months ago |Good luck and best wishes. Enjoy these moments…they’re special…and sleep when you can.
N!co
6 months ago |Congratulations Admin !
I haven’t seen it in the 2012 roadmap. A wonderful Christmas gift !!
I wish the three of you the very best.
Is this child a FT5 rumor ?
mike kobal
6 months ago |congrats to the whole family
uluru
6 months ago |Congratulations!
My best wishes =)
Tim
6 months ago |Congatz!!! I hope you can keep up the work. Alot of nightly posts! Chrz. From Amsterdam.
Daniel
6 months ago |Congratulations for the good news
Anonymous
6 months ago |Honestly dude, drop the website, just post on dpr forum, and focus on the family
salvo57
6 months ago |congrats!! best wishes from Istanbul : )
Paulus
6 months ago |Dear Admin!
Congratulations!
And all the best wishes!
Laurentiu
6 months ago |Congratulation. And I wish you girlfriend easy labor and a healthy and beautiful baby for you 2.
Paulus
6 months ago |Congratulations!
And all the best wishes!
Eric
6 months ago |Congratulations!
I look forward to the upcoming 24-hours-a-day posts. You WILL be up at all hours!
It’s worth EVERY SECOND of lost sleep, every ounce of baby-puke you wash out of your hair and clothes, and every penny you spend on getting pictures of your little-one.
Enjoy everything about it!
Anonymous
6 months ago |Congrats! and good luck.
ramon
6 months ago |Congrats.
We’ll wait for you.
marsupial2go
6 months ago |Kudos to GH3 baby. I wonder what a photog’s baby’s name will be…..
LeoLensen
6 months ago |Wow! Congratz!
Chris K
6 months ago |Congratulations from the US, Admin! We just had our second a couple weeks ago. Don’t forget to bring a camera that someone else can use for you!
Abraham
6 months ago |Big congrats, this will be the best time of you life!
Theeky
6 months ago |Congratulations!
metalaryeh
6 months ago |Congratulations!
All the best to you and your family.
Aryeh
Robert T.
6 months ago |Congratulations! Great rumor! Please limit any “unboxing” videos of your January event to the private audience.
Jokes aside, I’m happy for you.
Cheers!
Robert
admin
6 months ago |DOn’t think you will see that kind of messy unboxing
jack
6 months ago |You should definitely make the middle name Zuiko.
admin
6 months ago |no!!!
The Real Stig
6 months ago |Congratulations from Ireland.
Kenneth
6 months ago |Congratulations!
shatteredsky
6 months ago |Congrats! Was just for two days in Pau, and already missed my daughter …
Cheers
harnamsc
6 months ago |Congrats on your new bundle of joy!
Phil A
6 months ago |Awesome news! You deserve the best and while you thought life was changing (+or-) last Christmas, wait to see how it changes (++) with your new cherub responsibilities! 4/3 rumors just gave birth to 1/1 Truths!
burmese_dude
6 months ago |congratulations!!
All the best to your family!!.
Is that FT5 ?
Auntipode
6 months ago |Congratulations! Your life will indeed change.
Now, imagine all the new photo opportunities.
Gerd
6 months ago |Congratulations !!!
avds
6 months ago |Congrats!
One would think something had to happen after such an avid Olympus fan traveled to whereabouts of Olympia
Bawide
6 months ago |Congratulations!
My daughter (my first child) is now 7 months old.
And by the way: She is the reason that I read this site every second day. I always wanted to leave the compact cameras behind me. And when I knew that I will become a father I decided very fast that to buy a G3. And so I came here…
Wish you the best.
beautemps
6 months ago |Congratulations. Good Job!
No I understand why you left pyrenees in winter. .-) Only you the baby, a cow and a donkey would habe been too lonesome.
A little bad timing, could habe planned better. Sometime after CES…
Enjoy these days, birth and litle admin/admoiselle, nothing else matters
Cellardoor
6 months ago |Does it come in black?
Mika
6 months ago |Congratulations!
nikku
6 months ago |Congrats admin, I too will be a first time father (ETA December 16, and no, there will not be an “unboxing” video). Who knows, maybe one day our kids will meet?
admin
6 months ago |Maybe
Congrats to you too!!!
Oriol
6 months ago |Congratulations!! These are the best news, enjoy it!!