ZOMG
Have you downloaded this yet? Imler says that Google is taking over the planet. Certainly this is a big part of it. Get it. Now. Check it out. Unless of course you’re not running Win2K/XP on anything, in which case, you are out of luck. Unfortunate. (OTOH, you aren’t running Windows on anything, so that’s fortunate.)Monthly Archive for August, 2005
I had no idea
Maybe I should stop trying to cut back on the coffee, after all.Didn’t seem so bad in Kindergarten
I think I actually used this textbook, ca. 1983.Small Town Selection, Big Town Price!
Judging from the websites, we’re not sure our wedding photographer is going to be one of these guys. Does anyone have any good leads on a Fort Wayne photographer? Is there an amateur wedding photographer in the audience? update 2005.08.26 @00:40
…Other than me and K’s cousin… I’ll apparently be too busy, and Eric lives in New Jersey. We may not be pros, but K likes our pictures better. Also, we’re a lot cheaper[0]. In fact, it would be cheaper for us to find someone in our stock of friends with a good sense of composition and timing (which is probably all I have going for me, anyway, photography-wise), buy yet another, even better camera[1], and then have the pictures taken by that person with that camera. Even if we let our friend KEEP the new camera. Why, yes! It had occurred to me that I should set up shop as a part-time wedding photographer!
[0] As in, John and Stephanie had to take care of the prints. Period.
[1] This is, of course, totally unnecessary, but it serves the rhetorical point well. In reality, if I suggested up front that we buy another digital camera after we just did, I may not survive until the wedding.
Since I’m Usually the Last to Know, Pile on Quick
Google has now launched the Google Talk service, which I have now researched with the help of some of my associates, including pergamon, Pedant, and The Right Reverend Kwin Alexander. Our conclusion: This is pretty cool, no matter who you are. For Windows-Only Users, who don’t know what XMPP is:GTalk is a good way to keep your GMail contacts at hand, to “sense” their online presence, and to carry on text and voice chat in real-time. Add it to your list of chat clients — it’s not very obtrusive at all, and you’re likely to enjoy it. For Multi-Platform Users, and those who already get their XMPP on:
GTalk is running on what is basically just a Jabber server at gmail.com. You can talk to it with a number of other clients that support the Jabber/XMPP protocol. I fully expect that I will have a “gtalk” account in the Psi roster of my Linux comms box. No voice chat (yet) with these other clients, (but those of us who have been using Jabber for a while are used to wading in the short end of the extended feature pool when it comes to cross-network communication, and knew the risks when we put on the uniforms). For Others, who don’t use Google services or chat clients:
The secret is to keep rubbing those sticks together, guys! If anyone needs an invite, ask me or anyone else. Does any GMail user have less than 40 sitting around anymore? The voice and text chat are effortless, and GMail is just worth having to begin with.
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