I found the two-column version of the theme I use here, but it doesn’t work with this version of Wordpress. I’d like to have just one sidebar… Stef was right, the second one clutters the space. It’s very difficult to find the theme I want…. That should be a hint to learn something and do it myself, right?
Right.
[Sigh.]
At my host, Joyent, I’ve managed to move from Harwood, a FreeBSD Linux server to Laurel, a “Shared Accelerator” on Sun Sparc hardware running OpenSolaris. Which means little to me, a n00b who knows enough to create a lot of difficulty. Once I figured out the database password confusion, this blog reappeared along with my other one. This post is a test, to make sure I can still post. If you’re reading it, well, guess what?
Things you never thought you could do with your camera | MetaFilter
Yow – apparently amazing things can be done with a hacked Canon point and shoot.
Via PopUrls.com, 60 Advanced Photoshop Tutorials – Top Web Resources. I love Photoshop tutorials. The more I learn about Photoshop the more I love it.
I made a Brilliant Button with Brilliant Button Maker at LucaZappa.com, and now will litter this and my other site with them. An example:
This pleases me in odd, but not disturbing, ways.
Our local CompUSA has reached the 30%-50% off, all-fixtures-for-sale stage of its closing. I found the RocketFM from Griffin Technology forless than $9, so I can broadcast any audio from my computer over low-power FM. With this hack I extended the range to the clock radio at the far end of the house… which means much more variety than the usual meager fare on the local airwaves.
In the post Long-term backup at [dive into mark], Mark asks, “How do you back up 100 GB of data per year for 50 years? Or even 10 years?” The comments provide a valuable snapshot of much current thinking about how and where to save data for the long term. If that data is prized famliy pictures and video, as well as important documents in digital form, this is a concern worth spending time to think about.
Ellen was looking around for travel information, and found The Amateur Traveler Podcast – travel for the love of it and specifically, Episode 42 – Paris, France – The City of Lights.
The Amateur Traveler talks about Paris, France, the City of Lights. The show will talk about French, what to see, what to eat, how to get around, etc.
Another for the iPod. Whew, now I’m wishing for a longer commute so I’ll have time for all these Paris-related podcasts.
Lifehacker’s Geek to Live offers iTunes power tips
I want to keep track of these, for Ellen. (Shhh.)
The Open Culture blog posts several links to the Foreign Language Lesson Podcast Collection at iTunes. I’ve posted about similar Podcasts before, but these are reminders as much for me as anything.
Might be able to call home cheaply with OneSuite. Current rates from France – after dialing a toll-free number – to the U.S. are 12.9¢ a minute. Not bad.
Today is day seven with my new eyes. Lasik surgery at Emory Vision was expensive, but now I rarely need glasses to blog, or read, or do almost anything. There’s some halos around traffic lights and car lights at night, and some loss of contrast in high-contrast lighting situations, but the doctors say it should improve. My eyes get dry a lot now; that’s normal after the surgery for a while as well, they say, and I’m putting drops in all the time. I found sites with complaints from people unhappy with their laser eye surgery; I think I’m happy with mine.
Why do I only think I’m happy? It’s a big change, and I find I miss the feeling of my glasses. My face feels oddly naked, and I miss having them to manipulate when I’m thinking or talking. When my eyes are tired or dry or both, it’s a little harder to read traffic signs far away than when I had my glasses, but when I’m fresh it’s amazing. I have a pair of Ellen’s store-bought reading glasses (+1.75) with small lenses and purple metal frames for close viewing. They make close fine work razor sharp.
When I use the computer though, I find myself holding my head at the angle I needed when I wore glasses. I still think about it all the time. Overall, I like it, and I look forward to getting used to it.
A Photoshop tutorial on Making Your Own Passport Photos, found via LifeHacker.
The State Department has specific guidelines for photographers too. Should I post a copy of my passport photo here?
I need to consolidate the music I’ve accumulated on the laptop drive and on one of my external backups, and boom, I come across this hint at macosxhints.com – Easily move music between drives with iTunes 7 – in my usual semi-daily Mac news browsing. Tomorrow night, it will be done. Life is good.
With the D50, I’m trying to figure out the color space settings, and it looks as though I need to do things differently if I’m going to print and if I’m going to the web. Sensible… but a clear explanation (or more precisely, choosing a search query that reveals a clear explanation) has been hard to come by. This article – Color spaces and you – seems a good start.
According to DSL Reports, this is how fast our internet connection is, at least for the moment:
dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-09-13 19:50:02 EST: 5706 / 194
Your download speed : 5706 kbps or 713.3 KB/sec.
That is 1.3% worse than an average user on your ISP
Your upload speed : 194 kbps or 24.2 KB/sec.
That is 51.5% worse than an average user on your ISP
Not bad, really. Glad I don’t do a lot of uploading, I suppose.
Instructables has a Camera Zip-lock tip; I tried it at Taido Camp, but didn’t think much of it. It made the camera very tough to hold, and the perspiration on my hands made the plastic slippery. I wanted it to work for me; I’ll just have to be careful in sandy environments.
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Hey! I’m a new Ubuntu user! These Ten tips for new Ubuntu users are for me!
Actually, I’ve only booted Ubuntu once, and it’s really impressive. I’m bookmarking these links because I hope to add this to our home network and set up a demo at work.
I really don’t need to Run [my] own network wiring – Engadget, but it’s good to have a resource to rely on if I change my mind.