Saturday, July 27, 2002

Here is a link to my photography site. All images were made digitally with the Canon D30 camera. Digital darkroom work was done with Photoshop 7 on a Macintosh running OS X. I print my images using an Epson 1280 printer and typically output at sizes up to 13"x19". I sharpen images using Nik Sharpener Pro, an indispensible Photoshop plug-in. 10:23:17 PM

Want to set up a community Wi-Fi network?. 80211b News notes that the EFF posted its friendly sharing ISP list: the Electronic Frontier Foundation made public their page that lists ISPs which either do not prohibit or explicitly allow shared use of bandwidth of a single account in a way that community and free wireless networks require. [80211b News] [Mac Net Journal] 8:09:28 PM

Pardon Me, but Could You Help a Girl Down on Her Luck? [New York Times: Technology] 7:18:50 PM

The Matt Lauer haircut lives! I just went out and got all my hair shaved off. It's part of my new weight loss regimen -- I'll bet I lost a good 5 pounds of hair ... or is that grams ... One or the other. This reminds me of a story. Back in (I think) 1984, I was working as a new start-up company called Spectra-Tech, Inc in Stamford, Connecticut (the F.U. state). I was working there because I had recently been fired from my job at Harrick Scientific Corp in Ossining New York. At Harrick I had met and become friends with Frank Wesley. Frank and I decided that we would fly to Germany and buy used BMWs and have them shipped back to the US. At the time, one could privately import a used German car and be exempted from the EPA emission requirements (one time only). I soon found a candy apple red BMW 3.0CS and bought it. Frank and I drove said car through Germany, through France, onto the ferry at Calais, and over to Dover. We then proceeded onto London where we were to stay at the home of Phil and Dianna Buckberry, friends from my Penn Biochemistry days. But all of this has nothing to do with haircuts you say? You are right. There are about ten stories here that I want to write about, but let me move on to the haircut story. Frank and I found ourselves the next day in Trafalgar Square and inexplicably, we both decided we needed haircuts. We spied a barbershop on the square and went inside to meet the world's oldest barber with the world's oldest clippers and straight razors. After the cut, the barber/salesman convinced us both to buy a bottle of his special pink hair tonic. Could this have been Pirelli's Miracle Elixir? 7:02:24 PM

Thinking about tiny digital cameras lately. I don't tend to carry around my Canon D30 for snapshots, because it is just too big and conspicuous. Here is a review of a couple tiny cameras: Tiny digital cameras head to head. Japanese reviewer and friend of dpreview Yamada Kumio has today posted a head to head comparison between Casio's Exlim EX-S1 and Sony's DSC-U10. The comparison includes a quick side-by-side size and features... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] 2:37:15 PM

Test posting with blogscript. Gosh this is a really cool AppleScript for Mac OSX. 2:16:07 PM

Test posting with blogapp 2:10:18 PM

H. H. Williams. "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." [Quotes of the Day] 12:51:53 PM

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