LOMOcrawl, coming up!

Check out lomo.kataan.org for more information about an upcoming San Francisco LOMO-Crawl! February 9th, 2002, Cafe Prague @ 4:00pm. Last time was a LOT of fun!

lomo.org down

Good news! I received an email from a fellow LOMO.ORG poster. He’d been in contact with the admin, who said that it should be back online shortly. I hope so - the lomo.org community is one of the coolest photo communities out there. Many of the photo communities get too caught up in hardware, [...]

Slashdot has an article about Comcast (a cable ISP) actively scanning their customers looking for NAT users. This is probably in prelude to some un-enforceable, “honor-system” extra-cost NAT option that does nothing except add a line-item on your bill when checked.
NAT is the preferred means these days to conserve IP addresses; I’d much [...]

Looking for digital

Anyone know of a good 3 megapixel camera, small enough to carry in a pocket, with AA rechargeable batteries, adjustable film speed settings, and some manual control? The Powershot S30 sounds good, and part of me wants to upgrade my camera collection - sell off the compact cameras, put my AE-1 Program back in [...]

S40

A co-worker of mine brought his new Canon Powershot S40 to work at the same time that I brought my FED 50 in for show-and-tell. Let’s see, a 4 megapixel digital camera and a mechanical 70’s era Russian viewfinder… I think I’d probably trade.
NP: Autechre:Bass Cadet, from the Majestic game soundtrack. I don’t expect [...]

Outlook and Palm

I’m back to becoming an Outlook and Palm PDA junkie again… I’m using my Palm PDA to sync information between my work and home desktops, and trying to keep my office as paper-free as possible. So far, it’s working nicely. I just wish I was commuting on public transit again, so I could spread [...]

Transient online presences

Times change, I suppose - Baddgrrl let her domain lapse. She was one of the first people I saw with an online journal and a web cam. I remember seeing her walking the halls at Macromedia, she seemed a completely different person in meatspace from her persona on the web.
Part of the make-up of [...]