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Downtown goes upscale

More Latte stands coming! More People! Don’t stop. Make it happen.

Wherever there’s a Sunday, there’s bound to be a brunch.

There is so much talk about knowledge transfer that I need to learn a little bit more about it. The book so far is sort of dry because I haven’t gotten into the psychology part of it. And business is all about psychology. As I have been known to say, the business community has figured out mental health better than the medical community has. Not that there’s anything wrong with the medical community.

This is not a digital camera review site, and I actually only buy digital cameras once every 5 years or so, but I still consider myself a picky consumer, and it’s my blog.

I needed (wanted) to replace my classic Canon Powershot 110, the quintissential urban guppie digital camera. If you didn’t have one of these in 2001-2002, you couldn’t eat lunch anywhere the gay part of town. Here it is, 2005, and it’s a very dignified brick. Heavy, small screen. 2 megapixels. Although the pictures turn out great, Canon really makes a “photographer’s” camera. Sort of like what Windows XP is to Mac OS X. Bloated in terms of UI, but infinitely adjustable.

After much shopping (sort of), I decided to go with the
Kodak Easyshare V530 5MP Digital Camera. It was basically a “good deal” and it got pretty respectable reviews.

I am impressed.

Continue reading Review: Kodak Easyshare V530 digital camera…

I do honestly love it, to quote Olivia Newton-John.

Wow. It could really happen. Equal rights for homosesxuals in Washington State.

Note to self: Don’t spend any money in Chehalis, Washington. Not even filling up the tank. I’ll just do that in Olympia.

Note to self: Spend some money in Kirkland, Washington. Fill up the tank even if it’s already full.

Washington House passes gay rights bill

Bad Dirt : Wyoming Stories 2

So, I liked it. It was written after the “Brokeback Mountain” story and it was actually humorous and fun. There are several stories that deal with gay themes, in a sort of serious yet real way. Hard to explain. It helps understand where Ennis and Jack came from - a place where it is the norm for people not to be treated equally based on who they are.

I want to go visit Wyoming.

I sort of called this one. But so did millions of other people, so I’m not that special, am I.

Here’s a cell-phone photo I took in February, 2005, in Seattle, and labeled “Napster’s Cry For Help.”

Report: Napster executives do the math, consider selling or shutting down, layoffs imminent

I have been eyeing iWeb along with the rest of the known universe. It looks really cool. Unfortunately, on its face, it is missing a very key part of the blogging experience - interactivity. If it allows you to post flatfiles up to your .mac site (or anywhere else), generating RSS feeds on the fly, that gets you about 50 % of the way with blogging.

The other 50% is allowing your users to post comments and have those show up right away. Those comments can be turned into a feed themselves, again on the fly. That’s what makes blogging so powerful - everyone gets instant gratification.

So, everyone who uses Wordpress knows this. But people that use .mac may not. Both are cool products….so why not combine them?

Could you generate a series of iWeb pages, which are gorgeous, and turn them into Wordpress 2.0 templates, which would pull posts, comments, and the like from the database back-end?

Better yet, Apple could just integrate Wordpress functionality right into its .Mac service, so .Mac becomes a true blog host. C’mon Apple, why are you waiting so long to transform this part of computing? It’s not like I haven’t posted on this before….

I’m personally waiting to buy iWeb/iLife until I decide whether to buy a new machine or not, since it’s pre-installed. Why pay $80 bucks now, if I get it free when I pay a few thousand?

Can’t we be a little more welcoming?

So, I installed this and then unceremoniously erased the Windows Media Player application. It plays the sample Windows Media File just fine in Quicktime. Yay.

Only problem is, what other windows media files are out there anyway? Is it sort of over for Windows Media?

Windows Media® Components for QuickTime

Windows Media Player on Mac never really reached the highs of software enjoyment that Quicktime does. When Quicktime came out, in, I don’t know, 1980-something, I have to admit, I was sort of puzzled about what role video would have on the desktop, especially given that an 80MB hard drive was a big deal.

Apple’s foresight on this one has been incredible - there are so many applications of Quicktime in everything that I do with a Mac that I could not have forseen 17 or so years ago. But then again, that was 17 or so years ago. Score!

What is this Georgetown? Maybe it’s time to go down and get a slice of pizza. Is it a worthy pitstop on the way to Costco?

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