I’m almost ready to go live with the site. Right now I’m trying to create a custom Drupal theme from this site’s design. Once that’s finished, then we’ll be in business. The image below was created by converting two bitmap graphics, the book cover and a painter’s easel, into one combined image using SVG–Scalable Vector Graphics. Though […]
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Video Adventures: AppleTV
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I don’t have the spare income to indulge myself in all the new toys that come along. However, I considered the Sprint refund to be ‘found’ money, and used it to buy myself not one, but two new toys: a Kindle eReader, and an AppleTV. The AppleTV is a little […]
I must admit to being impressed with Amazon’s new download service. I’ve already made my first list of wishlist songs and albums, at prices that seem much more affordable than iTunes. Speaking of Apple losing its gloss, I was scanning the jabber today about iPhones being ‘bricked’, yet another instance where a noun becomes a […]
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Lasting stuff
This is the slow dissolving, long lasting stuff edition: Photography is dead. From Erwins Home: The essence of film-based photography is not only the fact that the mechanism of capturing an image and fixing it in a silver halide grain structure creates a final picture that can hardly be altered. The fundamental issue here is the fact […]
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A brief Sci-Fi aside
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. For all Stargate Atlantis fans who watched tonight’s show, see this site for information about today’s story. Also, in the news today: the next season of Battlestar Galactica, the fourth, will be the last. The producers promise a wild ride.