Kanguru Slim FC-RW - Flash Card Burner, Portable DVD Player and CD Burner!
A complement to a digital camera when traveling. Fringe benefit is use it to view DVDs in the hotel room. Main benefit though is burning CD without laptop, review pictures on hotel TV.
Sunday, September 12, 2004
Filehand: Another fulltext indexing solution, including PDF
Filehand Home Page
Interesing. I love Lookout, but I need something for the rest of my file system. I'll try it next week.
Interesing. I love Lookout, but I need something for the rest of my file system. I'll try it next week.
Snippets 1997 - before there were blogs
Snippets Explained (Version 2)
This is one of the oldest and least reconstructed pages on my personal web site. Google found it very quickly. It was first authored in Feb 1997 (my site began @ Jan/Feb 1995, initially at the University of Minnesota).
This site was about creating quick bits of information with a simple ontology to organize their publication. It was to be a cross between the fragment oriented PIMs of the 1980s and early 1990s and the web.
I didn't have the expertise to build the right solutions, and I had other priorities. I forgot about those "snippet" pages. Until I stated messing with del.icio.us. Ontology, fragments, keyworks ... then there are my blogs, esp. Quick Notes ...
Yeah, there's a resemblance.
Tinderbox, though, is closest to the snippets vision (though I don't use it; Quick Notes + Google is good).
Del.icio.us is interesting though. Gotta figure how to work it in to the mix...
This is one of the oldest and least reconstructed pages on my personal web site. Google found it very quickly. It was first authored in Feb 1997 (my site began @ Jan/Feb 1995, initially at the University of Minnesota).
This site was about creating quick bits of information with a simple ontology to organize their publication. It was to be a cross between the fragment oriented PIMs of the 1980s and early 1990s and the web.
I didn't have the expertise to build the right solutions, and I had other priorities. I forgot about those "snippet" pages. Until I stated messing with del.icio.us. Ontology, fragments, keyworks ... then there are my blogs, esp. Quick Notes ...
Yeah, there's a resemblance.
Tinderbox, though, is closest to the snippets vision (though I don't use it; Quick Notes + Google is good).
Del.icio.us is interesting though. Gotta figure how to work it in to the mix...
del.icio.us/jfaughnan
del.icio.us/jfaughnan
Here is my del.icio.us set of collaborative bookmarks, with appropriate recursion to this Quick Notes Blog. I like the way the tag list is growing. I use jfaughnan and jgfaughnan to tag my work.
See also my next post, on snippets.
Here is my del.icio.us set of collaborative bookmarks, with appropriate recursion to this Quick Notes Blog. I like the way the tag list is growing. I use jfaughnan and jgfaughnan to tag my work.
See also my next post, on snippets.
del.icio.us - very fashionable - collaborative bookmarks
del.icio.us
Collaborative bookmarks with an emergent ontology. Very fashionable. I signed up of course.
Collaborative bookmarks with an emergent ontology. Very fashionable. I signed up of course.
Making dish sponges last longer
Safety Tips for Your Kitchen
I can't vouch for disease prevention, but I am positive this makes the sponges last longer. We were going through sponges at a great pace -- due to their tendency to develop an ... errr ... odor (note to our few guests -- we use a dishwasher for your dishes). Zapping the sponge every few days now gives it a reasonable lifespan.
When exposed on the highest setting of an 800 watt microwave oven, a dry, cellulose
sponge was disinfected after 30 seconds. A wet sponge was disinfected after 60 seconds.
I can't vouch for disease prevention, but I am positive this makes the sponges last longer. We were going through sponges at a great pace -- due to their tendency to develop an ... errr ... odor (note to our few guests -- we use a dishwasher for your dishes). Zapping the sponge every few days now gives it a reasonable lifespan.
Why I won't be buying PC computer games
Big City Games - Official Site - FIM Speedway Grand Prix
The 7 yo and I are racing around the hardware store. He catches site of a pile of cheapo games, and at $5 a shot I weaken and grab this one.
Lesson #1: The cost of purchase is not related to the cost of ownership.
Go to blackboard and write 1000 times.
Without looking I assumed this was some discarded game from the 1990s. Something that old has a ghost of chance of running on the kids Win98 game machine or my the family Win2K box. (I don't let those stability destroying suckers onto my personal XP work machine.) Wrong. It's vintage 2003. Those "minimum requirements" are laughable.
I sort of got it running -- if one had extreme patience. A 20 minute install copied 350MB or so of data to my drive. The first time I tried it on the Win98 machine it promptly exceptioned with a "chrome ....dll error". I located a 1999 update to the old video card and it installed. Didn't show parts of the interface dialog boxes though -- probably some missing video functionality.
The next install was on a vintage 2000-2001 machine running Win2K. In theory it well exceeded the minimum specs -- after I updated DirectX from 5 to 9c. In practice the video didn't show (I suspect it needed a more recent version of Windows Media Player -- although that wasn't in the minimum requirement list). The game ran like molasses -- I suspect it really needs a fairly high end modern 3D graphics card (I'd set the display options to pretty minimal).
Finally I uninstalled and gave up.
Beyond RELEARNING lesson #1 for the THOUSANDTH time, this experience inspired a new conviction. NO MORE PC GAMES. I'm not willing to invest in the PC hardware to run them -- in particular I'm not willing to upgrade my hardware every 1-2 years.
I'll be educational software that's cross-platform (Mac/PC) IFF I know I can trust the recommended hardware specs. Otherwise I'll get a dedicated game box and keep the game stuff away from the PCs.
Minimum System Requirements
Windows® 98/ME/2000/XP
Pentium III 500 MHz or equivalent
128 MB RAM
500 MB Hard Disk Space
DirectX compatible Graphics Card with 16 MB RAM
DirectX Compatible Sound Card
DirectX 8.1 or Higher
4x CD-ROM
56k Modem for Internet play
The 7 yo and I are racing around the hardware store. He catches site of a pile of cheapo games, and at $5 a shot I weaken and grab this one.
Lesson #1: The cost of purchase is not related to the cost of ownership.
Go to blackboard and write 1000 times.
Without looking I assumed this was some discarded game from the 1990s. Something that old has a ghost of chance of running on the kids Win98 game machine or my the family Win2K box. (I don't let those stability destroying suckers onto my personal XP work machine.) Wrong. It's vintage 2003. Those "minimum requirements" are laughable.
I sort of got it running -- if one had extreme patience. A 20 minute install copied 350MB or so of data to my drive. The first time I tried it on the Win98 machine it promptly exceptioned with a "chrome ....dll error". I located a 1999 update to the old video card and it installed. Didn't show parts of the interface dialog boxes though -- probably some missing video functionality.
The next install was on a vintage 2000-2001 machine running Win2K. In theory it well exceeded the minimum specs -- after I updated DirectX from 5 to 9c. In practice the video didn't show (I suspect it needed a more recent version of Windows Media Player -- although that wasn't in the minimum requirement list). The game ran like molasses -- I suspect it really needs a fairly high end modern 3D graphics card (I'd set the display options to pretty minimal).
Finally I uninstalled and gave up.
Beyond RELEARNING lesson #1 for the THOUSANDTH time, this experience inspired a new conviction. NO MORE PC GAMES. I'm not willing to invest in the PC hardware to run them -- in particular I'm not willing to upgrade my hardware every 1-2 years.
I'll be educational software that's cross-platform (Mac/PC) IFF I know I can trust the recommended hardware specs. Otherwise I'll get a dedicated game box and keep the game stuff away from the PCs.
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