...saturday night, 11:45. three of the kids still out. brennan should be home from movies at a friend's relatively soon. peyton perhaps a bit later - from a bat mizvah god knows where. and morgan probably yet later from a seasonal "haunted forest" outing with her friends. wow. how did we get to here?
great day for soccer. peyton's team fell 3-0, but no real surprise - there's a bit of a focus issue for that group (but, peyton did have her best game of the season). brogan's team walked all over the other side with an easy 5-0 win, brogan dropping in one (really two, but the ref called the second back) and assisting another. the boys snagged a 4-3 win. cullen pounded in two - one from almost midfield, and assisted a perhaps once-in-a-lifetime goal for luke: cullen's loft from the corner was picture-perfect, but luke's receiving header into the goal was beyond that... good stuff.
and one of these days they'll be staying out 'til all hours as well... sigh. melancholy moment indeed.
g'night.
October 29, 2005
October 27, 2005
ShoZu - mobile pix app...
...been playing with this for a few weeks now. quite cool. makes the mobile imaging experience (or, in english: taking pictures with your camera phone) a hell of a lot simpler and, frankly, more appealing.
shozu (linked) provides a little app for your phone (multiple models supported) that, in simplest terms, allows for one-click posting of pictures from your phone to the web (you'll need a flickr account - which is free and easy to get at http://www.flickr.com/). so, again, that's one click to snap a picture, at which point you get a prompt asking you if you want to post the image to the web - one more click, yes or no. done. simple. and, what's further cool, the image is not sent as a multimedia message but rather as simple data - so, no MMS surcharge and, better yet, no file size limitation (e.g. 250k or whatever) so the image posted at flickr reflects the full quality of whatever megapixel capability your camera-phone might have (downside of MMS posting to blogger has always been the file size limitation). it really doesn't get much simpler from the handheld side of things. and flickr's pretty easy to use as well, allowing for image organization, blogging, sharing, ordering prints, etc.
all in all, a solid step in the direction of usability - a sorely under-addressed challenge in terms of the occasionally intimidating (to some) rush of innovation these days...
shozu (linked) provides a little app for your phone (multiple models supported) that, in simplest terms, allows for one-click posting of pictures from your phone to the web (you'll need a flickr account - which is free and easy to get at http://www.flickr.com/). so, again, that's one click to snap a picture, at which point you get a prompt asking you if you want to post the image to the web - one more click, yes or no. done. simple. and, what's further cool, the image is not sent as a multimedia message but rather as simple data - so, no MMS surcharge and, better yet, no file size limitation (e.g. 250k or whatever) so the image posted at flickr reflects the full quality of whatever megapixel capability your camera-phone might have (downside of MMS posting to blogger has always been the file size limitation). it really doesn't get much simpler from the handheld side of things. and flickr's pretty easy to use as well, allowing for image organization, blogging, sharing, ordering prints, etc.
all in all, a solid step in the direction of usability - a sorely under-addressed challenge in terms of the occasionally intimidating (to some) rush of innovation these days...
October 23, 2005
October 08, 2005
nice to come home...
..every now and then. sadly, it's all-too-rarely either. shot of home from the phone.
October 06, 2005
"wresting control" of internet...
...a week after geneva and a month and change before wsis-tunis and suddenly this is news? (link at bottom). gotta love the inflammatory headlines. someone with anti-UN, globalization willies trying to stir up the patriots? please.
first off, for those on both sides of the argument, let's remember that pretty much everyone's in agreement that we'd rather not suffer any gov't running or ginning up policy for the internet. it's been (kinda) in private sector hands for a bit now, and, despite it's, um, "limitations," ICANN has driven more or less business-oriented policy while u.s. gov't (e.g. DOC) oversight has been just that - pretty much hands off (i know, i know - the gov't could step in at a moment's notice, seize the root servers and be in immediate al haig-like command, but hey, like that won't be the case regardless of what happens at the UN?).
ok, so it's probably not been terribly helpful that u.s. law- and policy-makers have occasionally chest-thumped a unilateral tattoo about never ceding control. indeed, no doubt such rhetorical theatrics at least in part prompted the EU, Brazil, UK, various so-called authoritarian baddies, etc. to to mount this multilateralization initiative. in short, this is as much - no, more - about politics than practicalities. except...
...why on earth would anyone propose something as frightful as an "Inter-Governmental Council for global public policy and oversight of Internet governance?" eek. even if i weren't worried about such a creature undoing business-driven policy, the name alone would spook me...
whatever, seems a lot of blather for what i imagine will be little near term change... later.
Europe Lobbies To Wrest Control of Internet From U.S. - Yahoo! News
first off, for those on both sides of the argument, let's remember that pretty much everyone's in agreement that we'd rather not suffer any gov't running or ginning up policy for the internet. it's been (kinda) in private sector hands for a bit now, and, despite it's, um, "limitations," ICANN has driven more or less business-oriented policy while u.s. gov't (e.g. DOC) oversight has been just that - pretty much hands off (i know, i know - the gov't could step in at a moment's notice, seize the root servers and be in immediate al haig-like command, but hey, like that won't be the case regardless of what happens at the UN?).
ok, so it's probably not been terribly helpful that u.s. law- and policy-makers have occasionally chest-thumped a unilateral tattoo about never ceding control. indeed, no doubt such rhetorical theatrics at least in part prompted the EU, Brazil, UK, various so-called authoritarian baddies, etc. to to mount this multilateralization initiative. in short, this is as much - no, more - about politics than practicalities. except...
...why on earth would anyone propose something as frightful as an "Inter-Governmental Council for global public policy and oversight of Internet governance?" eek. even if i weren't worried about such a creature undoing business-driven policy, the name alone would spook me...
whatever, seems a lot of blather for what i imagine will be little near term change... later.
Europe Lobbies To Wrest Control of Internet From U.S. - Yahoo! News
mossberg's mobile guide...
seen such before, but not lately. nice little primer.
The Mossberg Solution -- Personal Technology from The Wall Street Journal.
The Mossberg Solution -- Personal Technology from The Wall Street Journal.
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