Reflections on life at “De Witte Wand”…
I watched him demonstrate it on tv. I don’t see it catching on. It’s one of those inventions where you wonder, really, why he bothered. Still, he had fun, and you never know…
Hmm – you know all these echoes we’ve been getting? It’s probably a Killian moment…
Yes. Lot’s to think on. I was delighted to see though, that they mentioned the meadow voles experiment I blogged about a while back. Those voles have made a valuable contribution.
Gelert – just saw your comment on the voles after I mentioned them. Didn’t realise that you’d blogged about them – will go and look it up.
It wasn’t the most serious of blogs – its listed top under absurdity, but the point behind it intrigued me and made me think about what it means or may mean, for us also.
How very interesting. Is God a King Charles Spandrel, or a Cocker Spandrel?
The New York Times has free registration except for the Times Select sections denoted by the orange gothic T icon, which will cost you. Rather annoying as it hides all its columnists behind the charge and I love Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich. I try to pick them up in the International Herald Tribune hard copy the next day.
Neither – God lives in the intersection between two arches 🙂 Thanks for clearing up the subscription conditions of the NYT. Hopefully that means the Henig’s article will live on and be freely accessible…
I agree about the box – it’s fine with a pencil, cos if there’s some trick and its gets mashed, so what. Your driving license now – you want to be able to get home right, and if there’s some trick or magician’s tactic, no license. It’s suspicion I agree. Not a good experiment.
Of course, you know there is a third posibility here?
A third possibility? Nah. No way. 🙂 But I still enjoy fairy stories, I admit.
Bloody hell, I’d like to see just one of them try that crap on my mother!
Gelert – a swift kick to the goolies, I take it? Your mother sounds like a fine woman!
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Hey! Have you seen the SciFi channels adaptation of Dune? I think it is fantastic and quite a bit better than the David Lynch film (which I still like too).
Kevin – no I haven’t seen that adaptation. I thought at first you were referring to the TV (extended) version of Lynch’s Dune, which apparently is a bit of a mess, but now I see there is a version produced in 2000. The reviews look interesting, so I’ll try and catch up with that. I see there’s even a "Children of Dune" sequel dating from 2003, which has even more enthusiastic reviews
I’ve mentioned Adobe’s Lightroom application before – and not in a good light, as far as I was concerned. Admittedly, it was then in beta. It has now been released in all its glory as a fully-fledged version 1.0 application. And my verdict? I’ve given it the hook.
Its performance is still terrible, its metadata handling is poor, it costs too much and I really don’t need it.
Performance – really, scrolling through thumbnails is jerky and incredibly frustrating. There is no feel that there is a real connection between a movement of the mouse on the scrollbar and the scrolling of the images. As I’ve noted before, Google’s Picasa (a free application) has this down pat, and is an example to aspire to. Adobe doesn’t come anywhere close.
Metadata – in its favour, it does have a complete implementation of IPTC Core. However, it only reveals a few fields of EXIF metadata. Where is Orientation, for example? Lightroom seems to expose a grand total of 12 EXIF metadata fields. IDimager shows over 110 EXIF metadata fields.
I did like the Metadata browser of Lightroom – particularly the “location” hierarchy, which allowed me to identify a few metadata errors immediately. However, performance again is pretty poor, and turning on the option to enable Lightroom to update metadata directly in the image files makes it unusable – at least on my system.
All in all, Adobe’s Lightroom is not for me: overpriced and underperforming for what I am looking for. My ideal digital asset manager will be something like the offspring of Picasa and IDimager – a child having the Picasa’s lightning fast image library and search capability coupled with IDimager’s comprehensive metadata capabilities.
I mentioned that I’m currently testing the beta software of Microsoft’s Windows Home Server. In that last posting I mentioned that I had a showstopper of an issue – Windows Vista would not start when the Windows Home Server Connector software was installed.
Someone reported the same issue today on the feedback forum, and said that it was caused by a conflict between the Connector software and the CA Antivirus program for Windows Vista. A bit of testing on my part confirms this: either I can run the Connector software or I can run the CA Antivirus – but I can’t run both together. What’s also frustrating is that the Windows XP version of CA Antivirus does not have a conflict. Martin’s PC, which is running Windows XP, is happily sending backups through to the Windows Home Server box.
I’ve reported this to Microsoft, and I’ve just received an email to say that they’ve confirmed this, and there is a fix in the works, so I’m looking forward to getting this and carrying on with testing.
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"I don’t want that man in office," she said. "I don’t think we should be paying him $150,000 a year when he’s not been truthful. We have to speak up. Of course, we don’t believe in sex changes or lesbianism. They have their rights, but we do, too."
"Mr. Stanton is not a role model. He’s proven that. I think for the sake of our young people today, you need to do what’s right, and that’s terminate him. … If Jesus was here tonight, I can guarantee you he’d want him terminated. Make no mistake about it."
"Do not give in to extreme pressure, because there is such a thing as the tyranny of the majority. … Make this judgment based on sound ethics, compassion, humanity, and truly show commitment to diversity."
I see lots of this sort of thing on gay blogs from the US and it makes me grateful that I live where I do. America has so much growing up to do about sex.
I am in stitches here…… I can’t believe it:
Ron: and that’s terminate him. … If Jesus was here tonight, I can guarantee you he’d want him terminated.
Peggy: Of course, we don’t believe in sex changes or lesbianism…. eh?
Of course, it’s not really funny is it – but what else can you do but laugh?
Agreed. I love the expression on my American colleagues’ faces when I tell them I’m slipping out to suck on a fag.
Damn. I was looking forward to the next bit…
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