DisplayLink USB monitor drivers for Mac released
Here’s a shot of my (Intel) Mac Mini driving 2 Apple 20-inch Cinema Displays, thanks to a DisplayLink USB hardware adapter and beta Mac OS X drivers (released today). Very cool… we’re going to try hanging 2 monitors on our laptop next…
A better lede photo
Linda thinks this photo should have topped the blog today. This guy looked pretty happy in the tall green grass…
Return to Big Dish
We returned to Stanford’s Academic Preserve (aka The Big Dish) today for the first time in many months. My mobility, while still pretty slow-paced, has improved enough (since last December’s low point) to allow me to return, and walk for an hour, at some of my very favorite venues.
I’ve stopped obsessing on how, for 17 […]
What has twelve wheels and drives sideways?
NASA’s new demo ‘moon rover,’ of course! Tip from Boing Boing…
Gray morning in Menlo
Spring leaves on a liquidambar tree are silhouetted against a gray morning sky as I took my morning walk today. Six-tenths of a mile in 35 minutes…
More on the iPhone camera
IPFrontline has an interesting tear-down of an iPhone. The camera is a 1/5th inch-format unit from Micron. Available data so far points to the camera being a video camera - meaning the stills are framegrabs…
Los Angeles Herald Examiner photo staff
What a crew, and what a night. Paul Chinn, former Herexer and current S.F. Chronicle photog sent me this pic of a pretty scary group. L to R front row: Dean Musgrove, Chris Gulker, Leo Jarzomb. Back row: Jim Reubsamen, Xavier Mendoza, Paul Chinn, Rob Brown and Mike Mullen. Thanks, Paul! I’ll have more […]
iPhone photog
We’ve been experimenting with the camera in the iPhone. It’s an amazingly tiny device, but provides rather more useful photos - 2 megapixel, 1600 x 1200 pixels - than any other ‘phone camera’ I’ve owned.
I’m very curious about the details of the camera. Judging by depth of field and some other clues, I’m guessing the […]
A very satisfactory device
Linda’s mother Ede (pronounced ‘Edie’), God rest her soul, used the word ’satisfactory’ to describe things that pleased her. The impatiens in the flower beds around her house were satisfactory because they bloomed constantly and required little fuss once they were established.
Satisfactory is the word I’m choosing to describe my iPhone: I find myself using […]
Easter: one small resurrection
We walked around Lake Lagunita this afternoon, after Easter services and lunch with John, Julie and Grace (as seen on Linda’s blog). This was a small, personal resurrection of sorts: after 17 years of jogging around Lagunita’s path two or three times a week, I returned today for a 30 minute walk after an absence […]
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