We (Paula, Zoe and I) went to the Baltimore Zoo today . It was a beautiful day; 67 degrees F in the middle of January is a little disconcerting, but we’ll take it.
This is the first time Zoe’s been to the zoo in at least six months, so it was really the first time she was really aware about her surroundings. She also had her first trip down a slide.
Monthly Archives: January 2002
Zoe walks.
Here's my 11-month old daughter demonstrating her poise and grace. Actually, she has been walking since New Year's, but this is the first chance I've had to document it online.
Shutterbug
My wife and I did our part for the economy today; well, the Japanese economy, at least. We went to Best Buy in Glen Burnie for some instant gratification and bought a Nikon Coolpix 885. With Paula's help, I fended off the salesman's pitches for all the options and warranties; we'll buy the add-ons later online.
In any case, the camera is friggin' cool. It's a 3.2 megapixel camera, and it also records silent Quicktime movies. We shot pictures of our daughter Zoe in the mall and at dinner, and quickly filled up the 16 MB compact flash card. When we got home, it was time to download.
Well. this is where Mac OS X suddenly stepped up to impress me. I've downloaded from other people's USB cameras to my Powerbook before, when I was running OS 9–the cameras show up as a USB removable media drive, and you can just copy them straight to your hard drive without going through the rigamarole of installing software. But OS X's Image Capture software makes it even easier than that–it automatically recognized the camera, launched, and I downloaded all the pictures and movies to my hard drive with a single click.
And then I opened up a movie with Quicktime Pro, exported it, and threw it into a Radio directory and published it to the website. Bam–movie online in 5 minutes. And here it is: documented proof that my 11 month old can walk.
Zoe walks. Here’s my 11-month
Zoe walks.
Here’s my 11-month old daughter demonstrating her poise and grace. Actually, she has been walking since New Year’s, but this is the first chance I’ve had to document it online.
Trademarked phrase enfringement
I decided to waste a few minutes Googlewhacking this evening, using stock phrases (and not so stock phrases) of mine to see what came up. And, wouldn't you know, some columnist in the UK at the Guardian used comatose manatee. And she used it talking about AOL Time Warner, too.
Analyze this
Gartner analystscoo over IBM's Linux Mainframe plans. CNET Jan 25 2002 5:57PM ET [CNET].
Big freaking surprise. The upper right quadrant boys strike again.
Scoop of the Day
Therese Poletti of the San Jose Mercury uncovered Intel's secret backup plan to the Itanium–a chip technology called Yamhill.