a crank’s progress

I ordered the wrong kind of cable for my digital image system, and the seller is shipping the right one to me — without even waiting for the other to be returned.
eBay’s feedback system needs to go to 11 for moments like this.
Now playing: You Can’t Hide by Maktub from the album [...]

Since a tsunami has a large wave length, tsunamis act as a shallow-water wave even in deep oceanic water. Shallow-water waves move at a speed that is equal to the square root of the product of the acceleration of gravity (9.8 m/s^2) and the water depth. For example, in the Pacific Ocean, where the typical [...]

I’m coming around to seeing Cory is right to be as indignant as he is.
Cory responds to Wired Editor on DRM:
I would be sure that every single review of a DRM device carried the following notice: WARNING: THIS DEVICE’S FEATURES ARE SUBJECT TO REVOCATION WITHOUT NOTICE, ACCORDING TO TERMS SET OUT IN SECRET NEGOTIATIONS. YOUR [...]

Buy Generously:
So Belle and I are donating the humble proceeds from our Amazon Associates Account for the quarter. So far that comes to almost exactly $100. A nice round number to pony up for starters. Given that I have resolved to donate x, where x = my commisions, you might consider buying some Amazon products [...]

The New York Times > International > Americas > The Food Chain | Survival of the Biggest: Supermarket Giants Crush Central American Farmers:
Not the most accurate headline. The nut of the story is not that peasants are being crushed beneath the remorseless wheels of industry — that’s not news — but that some have found [...]

Let Them Eat Prose (Harpers.org):
Wanted, a reading public. This is what the publishers say is needed—that is, serious readers, those who care enough about books to buy them, own them, and really possess themselves of their contents. This is what the writers say is needed—the writers who are becoming almost more numerous than [...]

In my quest to build out the capacity to digitize a lot of old slides and negatives, I’m finding it to be a piecemeal affair.
A scanner I have, finally: I scored a Nikon Super Coolpix LS-2000, but at that price (US$89), it lacked cabling of any kind. So I am waiting for an UltraSCSI cable [...]

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One word: give. The image above should give some sense of the power of this event: death toll is at 22,000.

Choice in browsers? What’s that about?
Safari still seems to be flaky, spinning and failing to let me read beyond what’s on the screen from time to time. FireFox has performance issues, and it’s lack of Services support is a nuisance. IE is a non-starter.
So I am taking another look at Shiira (the Dec [...]