the art of writing is discovering what you believe
testing ecto3 which I didn’t realize was already in beta.
I like it so far. It seems to be better — more responsive and cleaner looking — than ecto2, which was starting to look a little tired. Couple of things I still to figure out, but I don’t see anything missing.
Why am I seeing deletions and edits in some site feeds? 
Seems odd. It doesn’t show on the sites, just in the feed text.
In 1782, thirteen human bodies, some of them fresh and of unusual size, and a stone coffin, were found in a limestone-quarry, about two feet below the surface.
…This just sounds like something from a gothic novel (or something Neil Gaiman would write).
In 1782, thirteen human bodies, some of them fresh and of unusual size, and a stone coffin, were found in a limestone-quarry, about two feet below the surface. [From Yaddlethorpe – Yazor | British History Online ]
“Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things” (William McDonough, Michael Braungart)
“Bucky Works : Buckminster Fuller’s Ideas for Today” (J.
Found some sample files and it looks like the RAW format my E5400 writes is not what you get from a Nikon D70 (or newer) .
Good thing about standards is there are so many of them. Trying to open some NEF files and it’s not working. iPhoto, Preview both choke on the file. Found some sample files and it looks like the RAW format my E5400 writes is not what you get from a Nikon D70 (or newer) .
I was hoping to see what this RAW stuff was all about. Converting them to TIFF format doesn’t look good: the color shifts markedly for some reason.
I guess I can bellyache to Nikon about this and see what I learn.
In a comment @ TBogg’s on public displays of religiosity, this gem was revealed:
Knowing that many people will lie and claim that they are regular church attendees, certain researchers — rather than asking people if they attended — instead looked to studies done by the NIH (or CDC or someone) about allergies. The people in these studies had to record where they were every hour of every day of the week. When looking at *these* data, church attendance was determined to be at something like 15% or less (I don’t quite remember).
I’d love to see that study.
More on over-reporting here, here, and here. Any way you slice it, it’s no majority.
Like why I never got math.
True story: I learned the basics the old-fashioned way but as I began to get a firm grasp of it, this stuff was tossed at me, along with set theory (Feynmann has a great piece in this in his collected letters: he thought it was confusing and unhelpful). Then once I was good and confused — they switched back.
Gah. There’s a special place in Hell for educational theorists.
The cat who has been boarding with us since June of last year, who is currently perched on my stomach, leaves on Monday. She has totally entwined herself into our lives, and will be missed. She doesn’t go to her home in Kyrgyzstan as her people now live in England. So first to Amsterdam, then home. Long trip for a creature who won’t actually know what’s happening.
The decision now is to either foster some cats, so we have the experience of younger cats who don’t really get their claws into us or take on the full commitment. I’m conflicted: I can see doing both actually, if we can keep the peace between the resident(s) and transients. I don’t look forward to geriatric cats, having dealt with that recently, but that’s some time off, I suppose. Unless we get adopted by a mature cat in the meantime.
Software Kit for iPhone, iPod Touch Applications Set for February 2008:
Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS: ‘While there was no consensus in the existing Mac developer community as to whether Apple would ever fully open up the iPhone platform for third-party applications — a view reinforced by Apple’s early reluctance to make any commitment — Jobs stated quite clearly at the D: All Things Digital conference in May 2007 that Apple would open the iPhone up.’
Which makes more sense? To release an SDK in the summer before the launch of Leopard, with all the resources that is consuming? Or wait a few months, sell a million handsets (which will get developers salivating), and release a more complete SDK for a well-tested platform?
