Two Favors from the Internet

1. Does anybody out there know how to upload photos from a Canon Powershot to a Windows computer, sans software? Shouldn't Windows automatically detect these things, or does Microsoft cherish its lameness? Any ideas are appreciated.

2. Any Fresno people who might be reading (my parents, basically): please email Charles Nutter and tell him that I never received his email that he claims to have sent, and that I don't have a valid email address for him, and that both of these things are unacceptable.