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| Saturday, May 26, 2001 |
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Blogrolling 
| | I also notice that Deborah has a problem with Powerpoint. So do I. The other day I quoted Charles Roth, who says "Power corrupts and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely." But I also think the main problem comes when we use PowerPoint as speaker's notes: more for us than the audience. I wrote about this once here. |
| | If any kind of "productivity" software should be crashproof, PowerPoint is the one. But it isn't. That's the real problem. |
Viral Blarketing
| | Just found Cybersaps, which does Gonzo Marketing, among other clueful things. It was fifth on a list Google found when I looked up "searls fuck" while researching the item below. |
Aw shit.
| | I've been told that I am more profane than any other relatively mature individual blogging around out there. This only means we need more bloggers from New Jersey ("The Best Fucking State in the Country"®). |
Pretty/Expensive
| | Scott just got a Sony R505TSK notebook. It looks enviable. But jeez these things aren't cheap. |
| | My needs are expanding to include digitial still and video. I've been a color still photographer my whole adult life (started in newspaper work, doing B&W), and now I think I'm close to ready to move to digital. My old Minolta camera gear is crapping out after many years of hard use, and the new stuff is way too complicated: you have to disable a pile of automatic features just to make formerly simple settings. Since I do a lot of speaking, and too many venues don't tape the proceedings, I'd like to be able to shoot them myself, and edit them quickly and easily on a laptop. I alsowant to start doing digital family video recording too. |
| | Craig, who is seriously into this stuff, suggests the Sony DCR-PC110. It's expensive, but there are places on the Web that sell it for less than $1500. That one looks like it can serve as both a still camera (good enough for the blog, I figure) and a camcorder. |
| | After visiting the Apple Store in Virginia, I became convinced of several things: - iMovie, iDVD and iTunes are three knockout programs that serve, as Steve Jobs expected, to sell the hardware (in a reverse of the Gillette model, they give away the blades to sell the rasor, in keeping with at least one of Eric Raymond's open source business models, even though the source in this case isn't open — meaning perhaps it should be).
- I may not need a new laptop, even though this one has been giving me a hard time. I like the form factor, the screen size, the battery life, and pretty much everything else other than its too-small HD (and its crashy OS, but that's another story). So why not replace the HD?
- 802.11b is the future, big time. Walter Mossberg in the Journal the other day said all future machines will be either "dead" or "alive," meaning aware of a wireless network and ready to get on it or too stand-alone to live.
- [Yes, I know that for about an hour the list ended here with a lonely letter 't' in its own paragraph below. That's because Expolorer crashed, and before Radio went down too, I wanted to save what I'd written. Then guests came. In the world'o'blogs, shit happens live. In the world of PCs, it never stops happening. Life itself is how the universe knows that shit's happening.]
- [Shit, it's still happening.]
- The new Titanium is nice, but too expensive and not well-loved by its owners. I haven't met one yet that liked theirs without reservation. I loved this laptop when I got it, and I still do. Why settle for less?
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| | Anyway, I'm thinking of getting the Sony camcorder, a iBook for Joyce, and giving her ancient machine to Jeffrey. |
Reason to go
| |  For breakfast Joyce and I went down to our favorite place, the Diving Pelican, which is situated on Peninsula Marina near the far end of Whipple Road, out past the car dealers and the movie megaplex on the edge of The Bay. |
| | But when we got there we were shocked to find most of the boats gone and one of the few remaining ones wrapped in a banner that said "Eviction is not the Answer," while another carried a banner vowing to "Save the Peninsula Marina" and "Stop the Landfill Now." Beneath it was a URL pointing to the Boat Owners Association of Northern California. Seems they are being evicted by the new owner, Glenborough-Pauls, which plans to pave paradise and put up a condo lot. The boat owners (a modest lot as yachters go) held a protest on April 21st (some nice pix of the setting at that link). But clearly they've lost. Most of the boats are aloready gone. A sad sight, but not as butt-ugly as it's going to get when they start to fill it in. Or as typical as it'll look after they finish "developing" it. |
| | What's ludicrous about the project, aside from the fact that it would be unthinkable by any planning commission that cared to save any of its city's few remaining charms, is that Whipple Road is already jammed with traffic every day. It got bad when they put in the theaterplex, and much worse when they covered the outer wetlands with condos ‹ especially when movies let out. Without a new exit off Highway 101, it makes no sense at all. |
| | The development is currently in environmental review. The Diving Pelican's owner told me he's going to fight it. Let's wish him well. |
| | Meanwhile, it gives us one more reason to feel good about moving to Santa Barbara. It might have some of the toughest planning hurdles, but there's no way a project like this would even be thinkable there. |
Pitching onward
| | After lots of work on the laptop, I finally have it running again. So I'm off the Linux box and back using Radio Userland. And my excuse not to work is gone. Lots of neglected bookkeeping to catch up on. But it's a beautiful day. A little hazy, but the air is sweet and warm and still. |
| | I just added some pictures and a little more text to yesterday's sales pitch for our house. Already we've got one blogger coming over to visit this afternoon. Nice. |
| | I also ran into Guy Kawasaki in D.C. and he said he might know somebody who's interested. |
| | Again, if you're among them, or if you know somebody who might be, today and tomorrow are the only days Joyce and I will be here for awhile. |
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