Week ending Sunday 2008/02/10

Wednesday 13:56 · Coming back from quick Prairie trip. THe slanting light on the snow this time of year, there's nothing like it. [Original.]

Wednesday 23:38 · Adorable snowy cows: www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/02/06/Highland-Calf [Original.]

Wednesday 23:42 · @lrz - this is a *good* thing. [Original, responding to @lrz.]

Thursday 13:03 · Thinking about the examples in arclanguage.org/item?id=722 - readability doesn't seem to be at a premium. [Original.]

Thursday 17:11 · Best prank ever: Stopping time at Grand Central Station: www.gadling.com/2008/02/01/best-prank-ever-stopping-time-at-grand-central-station/ [Original.]

Thursday 17:12 · I miss Kathy Sierra too. [Original.]

Thursday 17:19 · FancyZoom (www.cabel.name/2008/02/fancyzoom-10.html) is lovely.. but isn't it better to load a smaller image and link to the big one? [Original.]

Thursday 23:38 · Ah, the ISO process. [Original.]

Friday 10:02 · High-ISO comparison chart for recent cams: www.pentaxforums.com/forums/172858-post1.html and (especially) www.pentaxforums.com/forums/173004-post13.html [Original.]

Friday 19:07 · @robilad - ".yu"? Huh? Where's that now? [Original, responding to @robilad.]

Friday 20:42 · @penmachine - Shabu shabu, that stuff does permanent damage. [Original, responding to @penmachine.]

Friday 22:56 · Scanning slides is therapeutic; a slow progress towards a distant but finite goal, with shards of beauty & memory accumulated along the way. [Original.]

Saturday 0:06 · Brace your soul: www.worldpressphoto.org/index.php?option=com_photogallery&task=blogsection&id=18&Itemid=187&bandwidth=high [Original.]

Saturday 12:06 · Ordered a Ricoh GX-100. [Original.]

Sunday 0:27 · As it's now past midnight, this is XML's tenth birthday. Seems like yesterday, or a lifetime. [Original.]

Sunday 10:29 · It's OK to have a mullet in 2008 if you're a blonde 18-month-old toddler girl. Or if you're Roberto Luongo. [Original.]

Sunday 10:41 · Seven thousand words on the personal history of XML: www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/02/10/XML-People [Original.]

Sunday 11:11 · It turns out that a SanDisk ultra II 2.0GB compact flash card can go through a washing machine in your shirt pocket and still work. [Original.]

Sunday 11:11 · @edd - where's "here"? [Original, responding to @edd.]

Sunday 14:12 · Thinking there's some jQuery in my future. [Original.]

Sunday 14:16 · @halostatue: theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/top-ten-new-camera-recomm.html [Original, responding to @halostatue.]

Sunday 14:26 · @halostatue I use Pentax myself so I'm biased. But they seem on a bit of a roll. K10D is cheap if you can find one, K20D about to arrive. [Original, responding to @halostatue.]

Sunday 14:49 · @twleung Only downside is that that sucker is *big*; you're gonna get RSI in your wrist carrying it around all day. [Original, responding to @twleung.]

Sunday 22:33 · Nexenta 1.0 ships: www.nexenta.org/os [Original.]

Sunday 22:51 · @glynnfoster: Blogs are so 2006, that was then. [Original, responding to @glynnfoster.]

Sunday 23:02 · OO.org for the Mac, native aqua build, beta: download.openoffice.org/680/index.html [Original.]


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