So much Green…

Friend, former classmate Greg Bird sent me an email listing some of the Green events in the Bay Area. There are many…! I would have loved to have gone to the Green Building Conference last week, but had a bunch of UCSF and other medical appointments that conflicted. CNET has some pictures from the […]

iLife ‘08: no uninstall option

We have tried repeatedly to reinstall iLife ‘06 (actually, just iPhoto ‘06) in an attempt to get back our 30,000 missing pix (and dozens, if not hundreds of Folders). Turns out there’s no uninstall in iLife ‘08 - or if there is it’s undocumented.
Going to the Apple Support forums this morning, and clicking iLife ‘08, […]

New gmail in the works?

Slashdot has a tip. The current interface is not the best of the webmail offerings IMHO…

Algorithms

The NYT’s Week in Review has a piece on Algorithms. It turns out the word ‘Algorithm’ comes from a corruption of the Latinized version of the name of the Baghdad scholar Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, author of the Arabic treatise “On the Hindu Art of Reckoning” which introduced the decimal number system to the West […]

After 13 years, church in the morning….

So, for the last 4 years, we’ve been going to a 5 PM service at Trinity Episcopal Church. Three weeks ago our new Rector, Mike Spillane introduced a new schedule with 8:30 and 10:30 services linked by a forum on faith issues. It makes a lot of sense, and everyone has worked hard to […]

The inbox shrinks: rethinking World HQ config

So we put the Leica D2 on our lightweight Quantaray tripod, and caught this image, of moi at the Happy Hacker keyboard working the controls of World HQ. The inbox stack has shrunk, but much remains to be done, including improving our paperless office and better integrating GTD. Our whole backup strategy needs work, […]

The ‘weather’ arrives

No sooner than my poor Digilux II came home but I dragged it out in this morning’s rain to try and snap some ‘weather‘ pix. My Oregon Scientific weather station has a failed rain sensor and its control station won’t talk to the USB port on the Mac Mini. Time to get it back in […]

On the topic of Leica cameras

Scott points out that my newly-arrived New Yorker subscription (addressed to ‘Chranda Gulkard’ - a blend of Linda and my names) features an article about the Leica. I’ve used Leicas for almost 25 years: the M8 has resurrected the use of my Leica gear - the picture of Scott, below, was taken with […]

Breakfast with a really nice guy

Scott Loftesness and I have exchanged blog links, comments and email for years, but have never met, despite living in the same town. A couple weeks ago, Scott pinged me and suggested we get together. His office is right by Menlo Train Station and the hip, busy Cafe Baronne.
I admitted I liked Ann’s - a […]

The Digilux II returns

Finally! Leica was kind enough to Fedex the Leica Digilux 2 after getting a new sensor from Sony to replace the failed one. Just in time… we’ll be riding the N Judah again, on our way to physical therapy at UCSF…

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