So, last week the brake light on our car comes on and won’t go away. We plan on taking the car in on Saturday. Being slowpokes, we miss the chance but find a place that will work on it Sunday.
With luck, we’ll get the car back around five. Between this car work and that gas outage and repair work it’s a wonder we can pay the mortgage.
Oh, and maybe you’ve noticed that my ISP is not providing satisfactory connectivity of late. What’s next?
El Chupacabra, Ballard
Paul of A Crank’s Progress ruminates on the death of film, informatively and (despite his self-perception that the post is long) with admirable efficiency.
While I certainly understand the potential threat to our visible heritage in the disappearance of photographic prints from our patrimony, I myself celebrate it as one less burden to drag toward the grave. As someone who has seen the surfeit of family prints commonly available in any given antique store, it’s clear to me that people never intended to keep the images for the ages. As a member of a family that inherited a large shoebox full of unlabeled shots dating back to the 1840s and realizing we had no way of identifying the subjects, it’s equally clear to me that the archival problem had us beaten two generations ago.
Flickr, the visual future of our history is in your hands.
Also, I did too much yard work today to try to figure out the head-plaguing home LAN problem I’m still working.
On a related note, Treo 650’s are still holding at about $200 on eBay. So I’ll continue my waiting game.
As you may have noticed, I’m experimenting with using the replacement phone to moblog, as i was with the Treo more and more. Unhappily, the results-to-date are unsatisfactory. For example, I have not found a way to title the posts as they are sent; the phone-side app refuses to permit the alteration of the subject line. Additionally, using the phone-style keypad entry technique is far less intuitive than the Treo’s full QWERTY. On the plus side, the Nokia’s imaging chip does a much better job with color reproduction than that in the Treo.
Fez!
Headdress for OS X: Simplifying desktop web development. (thanks, Tom, and congrats on the anniversary!)
This looks like another one-click, local-LAN only Apache configurator widget. Where O where is the live, world-facing implementation?
Rejoice, for the Kewpie has been born unto the commercial artist.
Madonna and kewpie, circa 1930s.
Feets!