TechnoPrimitive

Trying Filemaker Pro 7

Sunday, June 6th, 2004

Downloaded the <a href="http://www.filemaker.com/products/fm_home.html">demo</a> yesterday and am working my way through the tutorial now. So far it looks really good.

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And for a slightly different world view

Sunday, June 6th, 2004

http://www.mosnews.com/

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My dog Otis that is. No idea how old he was. Got him in a friend of my now ex wifes divorce. Then I got him in my divorce. Now he's gone but not forgotten. Gonna take some getting used to.

<img src="http://www.technoprimitive.org/images/otis_last.jpg" alt="Last Picture of Otis" />

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CD Gramaphone?

Thursday, June 3rd, 2004

http://kids.gakken.co.jp/kit/otona/vol09.html

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A mostly worthless day

Thursday, June 3rd, 2004

Over did it yesterday with all the heavy moving. Been in bed most of the day trying to get over it. Hope to be back at it a bit tomorrow. Just got to slow down it seems like.

Have been upright enough to cook two meals today. So I guess not a total waste. Read a bit too. Rereading the Sarah Kelling Mystery series. Or the ones I have of them. Still a few of the early ones I don't have.

Airport Extreme Driver install calling for a restart. Hope to be back soon…

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A few sources of RSS 2.0 feeds

Thursday, June 3rd, 2004

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/directory/5/feeds

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Blosxom in php

Thursday, June 3rd, 2004

http://js.hu/package/blosxom.php/

Haven't tried it yet.

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Bar code scanners for macs

Thursday, June 3rd, 2004

http://www.intellisw.com/index.php

Gotta have one!

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Bookshelf in place

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004

Cleared a bit over 64 cubic feet of crap out of the front room's east wall today. That allowed us to move the 12 foot by 3 foot shelving unit to that side. Set it up on blocks atop boards atop blocks on the floor. The area under the first shelf is filled with plow points and parts.

After the shelves were in place I started moving boxes of books down from the attic above the kitchen. Cat was loading them on the shelves as fast as I could bring them down… Got half of them from the attic and the ones at the end of the bed moved down so far. Only a few more crates left to move down. Tomorrow I want to move more crap out of the front room. Figure we can get enough cleared in there to move the books from the Mercantile here and start sorting and listing them.

The listing is still bugging me. How best to do it. I have a program on here for a library but I want something that will allow me to enter the isbn and have the data imported from Amazon or where ever if its available. I also want to be able to scan the cover in, take orders and have autoupdated inventory control. In other words a online used book store. Haven't been able to find what I want yet though. Guess I will keep looking or break down and try to write something that will do what I need…

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looking at cameras again

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004

Been looking again. should know better by now. seem to be looking more at the new Nikon D70 which Ken Rockwell reviews here http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d70.htm

I've read a couple of other reviews, the most inclusive being http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond70/

Looks like what I have been looking for. Now to find one to handle and look through.

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tagline of the day

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004

I am not a complete idiot! Some of the parts are on backorder….

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Smart Memory Sticks

Tuesday, June 1st, 2004

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/01/email_memory_stick/

This sounds like the next logical step in solidstate storage is now here. Of course adding a processor is going to add to the overhead in power usage but the added security certainly makes it the way to go. And also paves the way for onboard applications that will run totally within the memstick dataspace! Now thats COOL!

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