Archive for February, 2008
- The Digital Death of Instant Photography - February 18th, 2008
- Post Editing Tools - February 15th, 2008
- Persian! - February 14th, 2008
- Ice - February 13th, 2008
- tmi - and you’re not getting mine! - February 13th, 2008
- Election Day - February 13th, 2008
- When the Mouse is Not Mightier Than the Sword - February 6th, 2008
- iMac In The House - February 5th, 2008
- It’s Under Here Somewhere! - February 3rd, 2008
For those who haven’t heard, Polaroid will be ceasing production of all of their instant film products. Instead, Polaroid will concentrate on digital imaging and other electronic products, including a line of DVD players, flat panel TVs and monitors and GPS systems.
It’s a case of instant gratification being replaced by instant gratification gone high-tech.
Polaroid [...]
In the past, I’ve mentioned that I like to use the Windows Live Writer tool to enter and edit postings for this site. Unfortunately, it’s not available for the Mac, so I’ve been looking for new blogging tools. Today, I’m trying one called Qumana, and one of the things that’s attractive about it is that [...]
When we were in Virginia last Friday, we ended up having dinner at a little Persian restaurant near our hotel. It was a rare treat: I got to order directly from the menu, with no modifications required for my gluten-free diet! COOL!
So, tonight at Borders I picked up a Persian cookbook. A trip to the [...]
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got a call this evening from someone identifying themselves as being from a financial services company, and claiming to have business with me, but requested that i verify my identity first by giving my date of birth and one other piece of info (i’ve already forgotten - it may have been address. i’m just not [...]
Today was election day. Here’ s a run-down on the phone calls:
2 days ago: 1 recorded call from the Huckabee campaign
yesterday: 1 live-person call from the Obama campaign
today: 1 live-person call from the Obama campaign, followed by a recorded call from Obama’s wife, followed by yet one more live-person call from an Obama supporter.
So, 5 [...]
I mentioned yesterday that I have a visiting iMac here fro evaluation, and so far I’m pretty impressed with the machine. Sure, it has a few quirks, but most are of little consequence.
The Mighty Mouse (shown at left), however, is more than a bit of an annoyance — an ergonomic nightmare, in my opinion. Sure, [...]
I’ve got a visiting computer — a brand-spanking-new Apple 20″ iMac. By and large, I really like it. A lot.
This particular iMac belongs to the church I work for. There are a few reasons I’m playing with it. First, it’s the computer that we’re going to be using to replace the aging PC in [...]
Donna and I had a great walk around Wilde Lake this afternoon. In addition to the usual Herons, ducks and geese, we encountered a group of Bluebirds, and this hungry Red Shouldered Hawk.
The rest of my pictures from today’s outing are posted here, on my flickr stream.
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