shooting with my Elph

After shooting with tinycams for a week or two, I feel spoiled by my Canon Powershot S100 (Digital Elph). I put in a 128MB card, set the camera to 640×480, and I can store 700-something pix on a card. Not losing the pictures when the battery dies means I can shoot all week without [...]

Moving Forward

I’ve re-formatted my laptop, have Linux, Gnome, OpenOffice, Evolution, and Mozilla 1.1 running on it - it’s really nice. I’m looking forward to having a desktop instance of Linux running - most of my linux boxes have been headless boxes running without X (or a monitor, or a keyboard, or a mouse…) in a [...]

r** h**

Testing blogger and Mozilla. 1.1 is out, and everything looks mostly good, except the edit window in blogger is tiny.
All in all, it looks pretty good. I’m looking for an OS change in the next few weeks, downloaded R** H** 7.3. I’m going to load up Open Office 1.0 along with Mozilla and see [...]

I shot a roll and a half out along the docks in Dogpatch/Hunter’s Point/Whatever they’re calling 3rd street in San Francisco nowadays. Great grafitti, old warehouses, and long-closed salty looking bars that were longshoreman’s hangouts when San Francisco had a shipping industry to speak of. I sent them to the main York Photo lab [...]

Yahoo!

I think I’m addicted to Yahoo!.
I used to run a BBS back in the days of Fidonet and dialup virtual communities. I discovered usenet back when it was manageable and mostly SPAM-free, but as it got bigger and more full of SPAM, I stopped reading.
Yahoo’s groups are a nice alternative. There are small-ish communities [...]

I very somberly packed away my Canon AE-1 Program — I’ve got my Rebel 2000, and although I still like the feel of a semi-manual camera, I think the new AF camera is the way to go. 30 second max exposures, shutter and aperture priority, a fast 50/1.8 lens, a nice 28-105 lens for [...]

I read the Open Letter to America linked from Wil Wheaton’s site, and it hit home. it’s definitely a sobering thought, but it begs the question — OK, so what should we do?
How do you get off of oil dependence when the government is powered by money — specifically oil money? Where’s the motivation [...]