Technology has continued to influence the methods of stellar photometry and polarimetry in the last triennium. For example, CCDs continue to displace photographic plates in stellar photometry and other detector systems for imaging and spectro-polarimetry, new array detectors for infrared wavelengths have revolutionised the way infrared photometry and polarimetry is done and small automatic telescopes and robotic observatories have experienced a remarkable growth period. The volume of data to be archived and transformed to “standard” systems has become immense and all the problems of inter-comparing different systems still remain.