Thanks to Gizmodo, I just wasted 10 minutes.
It’s a lot of fun.
Firefox 2 migration bug
When I migrated from my Powerbook to a Core 2 Duo Mac Book Pro and Firefox to Firefox 2, flash stopped working for me in Firefox 2.
The solution is rather simple: Quit Firefox and delete ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/pluginsreg.dat and then restart.
A little about Lensbaby
When I get tired of taking the same photos over and over, I put a Lensbaby on the front of my camera. It’s the ultimate “fun” lens:
The Baby has arrived!
Mountain View, California
Mountain View, California
Nikon D70, Lensbaby 2.0, Tokina .45x macro
1/50 sec @ f/2.0, iso 800, 50mm (75mm)
A lot of people stop and ask me what that funky thing is on my camera. Now that I have a Nikon D200, I let them have a go at it. They “get it” pretty quickly on the D200, though I wouldn’t risk it with a Nikon D70.
I love my baby!
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Transparent PNGs in Exploder
A friend asked me about getting PNG alpha transparency to work in Internet Explorer.
To do this, you should go to this website and save the javascript parts of the “view source” of the page you want into a separate file.
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Stop hiding and start living!
Thanks for the link, Blake.
Chicken Breast Dijon
“You tell nice stories, and sorry to hear about your mom.”
It’s been almost seven years now, so that didn’t really bother me until a couple hours later, as I was driving home, I realized how much I missed sharing stories with her. I fell into a funk.
It is said that Irma Rombauer wrote The Joy of Cooking to recover from her husband’s suicide. One sure way to crawl out of a funk is to cook something.
I pulled up MacGourmet, wrote down a few ingredients and stopped by Safeway:
Chicken Breast Dijon on a bed of Basmati Rice
Sunnyvale, California
Sunnyvale, California
Nikon D200, Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G VR
1/10sec @ f/2.8, iso 100, 70mm (105mm)
A body is meant to be seen…
Seen while getting some brandy for my apples…
A body is meant to be seen…
Safeway, Sunnyvale, California
Safeway, Sunnyvale, California
Lumix DMC-LX1
unprocessed raw
1/13 sec @ f/2.8, iso 200, 6.3mm (28mm)
“Like the starlet, a bottle of good Merlot is generally soft, sensuous, and uncomplicated—offering the ripe, jammy fullness of a fine Cabernet Sauvingnon without its complexity or tannic backbite. It is the wine equivalent of Monroe’s sultry, dulcet voice signing “Happy birthday, Mr. President.”—not intellectually engaging but a delight nonetheless.”
—Mark Oldman, “Oldman’s Guide to Outsmarting Wine”
Hmm, sounds a lot like my conference talks. Which, coincidentally, are about the only time I get to drink merlot.
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Browser support
Joseph sent around this chart of Yahoo’s updated browser support chart.
Random thoughts on my way to lunch
About 10 years ago, the radio stations started playing 80’s music over lunch. Shouldn’t they start playing 90’s music? I mean there are only so many times I can listen to Electric Avenue.
Corollary: I need to find a new radio station. That, or remember to bring my iPod.
Never have anything electronic clipped to your belt, especially a cell phone. You’re not Batman. Besides, you’ll probably regret any photo taken of me five years later—“I thought that was a cool thing to have?”
Corollary: There is no way a headset is ever going to look good on you unless your name is Madonna. Take it off at the earliest opportunity.
Appletini
I got some new martini glasses today. As soon as I unpacked them, I washed them and put them in the freezer. Dave suggested I try to make some apple martinis with them. I try every drink on myself before subjecting anyone else to them, so a quick stop to BevMo, and I find my bartending skills have atrophied to the point of uselessness:
Four sips and I’m buzzin
Sunnyvale, California
Sunnyvale, California
Lumix DMC-LX1
1/20 sec @ f/2.8, iso 200, 6.3mm (28mm)
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