Following hot on the heels of my photo tips page comes Choosing a Digital Camera. Hope it is useful.
Month: September 2001 (Page 2 of 7)
Both Melissa and Xkot are celebrating the anniversary of their respective weblogs: Melissa, one year, and Xkot, two. With all kinds of people putting an end to their personal weblogs, it’s great to see anniversaries of two fantastic sites. Why not take a couple minutes and e-mail the author of your favorite weblog and tell them how much their site means to you? As you-know-who would say, it’s a good thing.
Search engine manipulation
Osama bin Laden. Nostradamus. Britney Spears. Hot lesbian sex. Afghanistan. Jerry Falwell. Justin Timberlake. Miss America pageant. Ann Heche. Enterprise. Lord of the Rings. Spiderman. Michael Jackson. Miss Cleo. Windows XP. World Trade Center. George Bush. Harry Potter. Harry Potter. Harry Potter.
That is all. (Try it yourself – it’s fun!)
I know, it’s another comedy host talking about the tragedy. Well, Jon Stewart is amazing, and what he said deserves to be heard. (via hit-or-miss) I said this before with Letterman, but Stewart’s real emotion and positivity are more useful to us now than hundreds of hours of news coverage.
Online marketing mishaps
Yesterday I got an e-mail ad from Grizzly Outdoors, which specializes in hunting, camping, archery and boating. Someone needs to check their demographics lists. 🙂 And to add insult to injury, they prefaced the ad with an American flag and a line that began “In memory of….” Ugh.
In an attempt to write some actual new content for the site, I’ve come up with a photo tips page. It’s for casual photographers just looking for some basic suggestions on how to take better pictures. It’s also an exploration of the “white” look I’m considering for the whole site. I’m also planning on doing a “how to pick out a digital camera” page, since so many people ask for my help in that area. These “tip sheet” pages might be a good way for me to help promote my web design business as well. Let me know what you think, especially if you have some ideas of some web-oriented tip sheets I could work on.
Today for lunch, I had a peanut butter (Skippy chunky) and raspberry jam sandwich on really good, dense white sandwich bread. Sometimes the simplest things can be the best, if you ask me.
Movie quote of the week:
“Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk is spoiling all the fun at every party this spring.”
-Scarlett O’Hara, Gone With the Wind
Following in my mindless entertainment theme from the past two days, I was thinking today about classic arcade games. I must admit that I get more pleasure overall from playing old arcade games using the MAME emulator than I do from most ultra-complicated new 3-D PC games. Getting a high score in Galaga, for example, is an exhilarating experience. I also love Ms. Pac-Man, although I am bad at it and never learned any of the magic patterns which allow you to play until you keel over. The original Donkey Kong is another favorite of mine. I love Missile Command, and have fond memories of playing it at the mall arcade – but it’s very hard to play without the giant trackball of the arcade version. What are your favorite classic arcade games?
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. (November 2000)