Fedex and the USPS were busy around here today.
- My Mighty Mouse arrived today. I have checked them out in the store before, but still, it’s a weird but natural feeling to use one. Pretty neat little device and I like the optical tracking versus mechanical, for accuracy.
- The LinkSys router/access point also arrived, and I’m using it now. I think ultimately, I would like to connect it directly to the DSL and put everything behind it. My cursory look didn’t tell me how to do port forwarding so port 80 traffic gets handled correctly. But I’m sure it can be done.
- I also got a teeny 4 port USB 2.0 hub, since the olde skool PPC mini only came with 2 USB ports. And I have more devices than that.
- So far, so good. The hub was by far the cheapest. I think it was a buck, with an additional 5 for shipping from Hong Kong.
Now, perhaps I will have fewer excuses about the backlog of projects.
I have a book full of 35mm negatives I took on a Habitat for Humanity house, built entirely women — mostly Junior Leaguers, augmented by a few burly lesbian tradewomen. I want to scan as much of that as I can, all of it if possible, and see how it all looks. I haven’t printed any of it, so at this point it all seems very distant. This would have been 1991/92. The faster USB hub may make scanning a bit snappier. The DVD burner I have is also in a USB enclosure and 1.2 Mbits/sec vs 480 is no contest, in the event I want to burn these.
I had an opportunity to use iPhoto’s book publishing features recently and as it turns out, you need not use Apple’s printing services. The books can be saved as PDFs, so it would be possible to do something that perhaps Apple’s printing apparatus isn’t set up for. Not thinking of a book I could sell, but if I sent all this to Habitat, it would be nice if it was more than just a stack of images.