And on a day like today where all is bliss and the weather is back where it used to be, the torp pulled the worst joke ever. For those of you who don't want to see that blog here it is.
What's the opposite of Christopher Reeve?Christopher Walken
I'm not sure if laughing my guts out at that can be construed as insenstive to the plight of the paraplegic and as a potential ticket to hell but if it is, I don't really mind.
Interesting how in html all that is really important is in quotes and the rest is what you see here. But that isn't what we're talking about today.
Technology it would appear is leaving me behind. Now despite public opinion and accusal that yours truly is electronically challenged or a geek depending on which side of the fence I'm on I used to think that I was in tune with the times. The usual digital watch, a Nokia 3315, 15 inch CRT monitor, you know the works.
It turns out that I'm so far behind times that like others I know, I should start refering to myself as a fossil. Got accused of premature senility or rather premature aging today but that's a different story.
It all began when I took some pictures (incidentally the Family Jewels one) on my digital camera and wanted to upload it from the shrink's comp. Always insisted that XP despite it's microsoft lineage was rocking simply because of the plug and play support that it has. Plug and play has conotations I don't want to discuss here. But strangely despite the right cable and the correct port, the computer and the camera just refused to hit it off. So I decided to hunt for the drivers online and this is what I saw.
It's 2001. In the Canon Museum. Which makes sense why XP doesn't know it and trying to download a driver is like trying to get metallica mp3s of the web. It of course doesn't help that a million cell phones now have 2 megapixel cameras. Not with an optical zoom but still...
Like all the old things that I cling on to shall stick with it though. Mostly because I'm broke, but partly because it can do this.
Chiaroscuro. Perhaps.
Interesting how in html all that is really important is in quotes and the rest is what you see here. But that isn't what we're talking about today.
Technology it would appear is leaving me behind. Now despite public opinion and accusal that yours truly is electronically challenged or a geek depending on which side of the fence I'm on I used to think that I was in tune with the times. The usual digital watch, a Nokia 3315, 15 inch CRT monitor, you know the works.
It turns out that I'm so far behind times that like others I know, I should start refering to myself as a fossil. Got accused of premature senility or rather premature aging today but that's a different story.
It all began when I took some pictures (incidentally the Family Jewels one) on my digital camera and wanted to upload it from the shrink's comp. Always insisted that XP despite it's microsoft lineage was rocking simply because of the plug and play support that it has. Plug and play has conotations I don't want to discuss here. But strangely despite the right cable and the correct port, the computer and the camera just refused to hit it off. So I decided to hunt for the drivers online and this is what I saw.
It's 2001. In the Canon Museum. Which makes sense why XP doesn't know it and trying to download a driver is like trying to get metallica mp3s of the web. It of course doesn't help that a million cell phones now have 2 megapixel cameras. Not with an optical zoom but still...
Like all the old things that I cling on to shall stick with it though. Mostly because I'm broke, but partly because it can do this.
Chiaroscuro. Perhaps.
