Olympus released a whole slew of new cameras today, but I thought I’d pick up two because they have interesting approaches worth mentioning.
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Leopard Sneak Peak
I finally got around to looking at Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard site. The videos are interesting.
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PE6-5000
Dave sent me an article noting the end of the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York.
I’m half tempted to SkypeOut 212-736-5000 just to listen to the song.
On sensor cleaning and “the Copperhill Method”
I received a slightly over-direct e-mail from Nicholas at Copper Hill Images concerning a recent post I made about sensor cleaning.
I won’t post a private e-mail here without permission. The gist of it I’ll get into below but this is as good a place as any to leave some room to talk about sensor cleaning.
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My Mac is Brilliant
I was reading Presentation Zen, when I happened upon this James Blount/Apple homage:
I’m not too sure what to think.
An HR corollary
A while back, Stuart quoted:
“You will always be known for the people you’ve hired.”
—Rikk Carey, 2006
It’s a great quote. It’s amazingly insightful. It’s also a very dangerous one because it has horrible consequences that are fundamental if ignored:
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Get a First Life
Mildly amusing play on this.
I don’t play Second Life, but I definitely need to get a first life.
Building your family tree with Geni
Last week, Trevor sent me a link to Geni, which is a ajaxified family tree website.
Trevor noted that the API they’re using is html which is rendered through document.getElementById().innerHTML calls. They are missing an opportunity to release a real API which would allow mashups with Flickr and Plaxo.
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Data entry on Address Book
When I’m typing a lot into Mac OS X address book, sometimes the focus flips from the field I’m in directly into the Note field. It’s very annoying.
Anyone else have that happen?
Random thought while unloading my car at 2AM
My parking slot in my apartment costs about a third of my old car payment.