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• A friend finds himself under the Big Ball of Mud
  And anyone who can tell me that Windows, post 2K, has no DOS in it need to explain this 8.3 file names. msoobe.exe? ipoint.exe? itype.exe? Pah.
  (tags: microsoft software design)
• Constable’s racy picture sparks investigation – National – smh.com.au
  I’m glad to see the blame land where it belongs — “She has sent an image to her boyfriend and obviously he has done the wrong thing and forwarded it on,” a Victoria Police spokeswoman said.
  (tags: ethics values)

• so what’s the penalty for contempt of Congress?
  (tags: politics corruption “separation of powers” “rule law”)
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• quote of the day
• open source hardware?
  (tags: opensource hardware hacking)

• values
  (tags: values GOP politics hypocrisy)
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• easy fried rice
• who knew?

I have tried a few different approaches to this, but this one came out a lot better than any other. The sesame oil in the eggs seems to be the magic ingredient. I used short-grain rice, frozen peas, diced carrots, and a bunch of home-made seitan. I might use more than two eggs next time, but it’s good as it is.

white:~ paul$ sudo -s

WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss

or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your

typing when using sudo. Type “man sudo” for more information.

To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.

Password:

white:~ root#

Think maybe someone did something awful?

And this off-brand BlueTooth adapter is no better. May as well pony up for a D-Link.

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You can get some here.

I just set up my FON social router, so you can surf the internets if you need to. I’m sharing it all and I’m not trying to recoup my “costs.”

And if you want to do the same, let me know. I can get you one as well.

What do you get? A free WiFi access point with two networks, one open and one secureable (with WPA).

powered by performancing firefox

I got one of these mass-produced dongles from eBay (the second I have tried) and it seems to have driver issues. It loads and can discover devices but it seems unable to connect reliably to my RAZR. There are some timing issues noted on the FreeBSD mailing lists, and it sounds similar to what I am seeing. Not that it helps all the much.

Perhaps Leopard will make it all better, if I don’t find anything before then.

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[originally posted Jan 10, 2007]

Olympus XA rangefinder: the reputation of this one might put it out of reach. People love them. High quality lens in a true rangefinder means good sharp images are in your pocket. More of a collectible/nice to have item than anything else but if they can be had on eBay for $20, it’s worth looking.

<update> just scored one for $5. Now to see how I get on with it.

Yashica TLR: I think I used one of these in middle school but didn’t know what it was or how it was interesting. SLRs were becoming accessible and I was jealous of some other kids who were assigned some SLR or other (thinking back, it may have been a K-1000 or something: not to knock it, but the quality of image from the TLR would have been quite a step up.) Alas, we are too soon old and too late smart. I am looking at one of these to try doing some portraits. I like medium format a lot but Holgas are not really reliable enough for what I want. And a Hasselblad is out of the question 😉

And it looks like if I want to do anything with my large format negs, a large format enlarger needs to be procured. There are a lot of them about but most seem to be for local pickup: not much good if they’re several states away. So looking for paying work am I, once again, something that can fit into my chaotic life of kid-chauffeuring, field-trip chaperoning, and general monkeywork.

None of these knocks a good DSLR off my list, of course, but we’ll have to see how we can work it all out.

TED 2007, Days 1 and 2:

Remember this, if you ever meet me. I’m afraid of you. I’m afraid I won’t live up to your expectations, I’m afraid you’ll think I’m ugly, I’m afraid I’ll look like a nerd or do something inappropriate and you’ll disapprove of me. If I act aloof it’s because I don’t have the inner strength to risk being rejected that day, not because I don’t care about you as a human being.

Maybe if I had experimented with pharmaceuticals like Mr Shipley alludes to having done, I would have realized this as well. But, while things are not quite as dire as his description, it never really goes away.

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