Lynne Kiesling Glenn Reynolds is hosting a digital camera carnival, with further entries today or Friday. In August I replaced my 6-year-old Nikon CoolPix (2MP, with a nifty rotating lens for self-portraits) because it has huge refresh and latency problems. Not a big deal for holiday snaps (grin grin, wink wink, nudge nudge, say no …
Lynne Kiesling Happy Thanksgiving to one and all. We are safely ensconced at my mother’s in Columbus and will be running in the local 8K Turkey Trot tomorrow morning.
Lynne Kiesling I am sitting alone in my living room catching up on the day while I await the arrival of the KP Spouse so we can dine. I am indulging in a favorite alone pleasure: Virgin Radio UK on the spiffy music server (it’s too pop-y for the KP Spouse). Franz Ferdinand’s “Do You …
Michael Giberson Steven Pearlstein’s column in the business pages of today’s Washington Post takes note of Ticketmaster’s growing efforts to become the officially-sanctioned secondary market for an increasing number of teams, venues, and performers. As we have mentioned here before, active secondary markets for tickets can be a good thing for consumers as well as …
Lynne Kiesling Thanks, Dad. It’s been a great ride. And thanks to Mike for holding down the KP fort while I’ve been otherwise disposed.
Michael Giberson Speaking of Wikipedia, I just want to say it out loud: “Wikipedia is a great thing!??? A lot of ink, virtual and real, has been spilled in condemnation of Wikipedia. Most of the bashing seems to me to be based upon a misunderstanding of what Wikipediais and how to use it. The appropriate …
Lynne Kiesling Did two things here today: upgraded to MT 3.31, and finally futzed around with the container margins in the stylesheet to make the middle column wider. I tried to be sensitive to the different resolutions and screen sizes running around out there, but if you have troubles loading and reading, please drop me …
Lynne Kiesling So I woke up this morning ready to write about a few things, but our ISP has other ideas. They are having domain-name server problems, and the only computer in the house that doesn’t use DHCP to get its directions is my husband’s, but even that one is running slow. To put it …
Michael Giberson Tell your teacher the World Bank said chewing gum helps you learn. (Via Truck and Barter, a World Bank Report Efficient Learning for the Poor: Insights from the Frontier of Cognitive Neuroscience, citing research in Psychopharmacology and Archives of Oral Biology.)
Michael Giberson I’ve mentioned Seth Roberts’ Shangri-La diet here before. I’m interested, because I could probably stand to drop 10 or 15 pounds, but I really don’t see myself as a “dieter” or “diet book buyer.” Of course I could try out the ideas based upon publicly available information about the diet, but then I …
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