文書は英語ですが、写真は共通
(though I'm taking a break from blogging for a while)
Archive for January, 2007Of course, not even Eric Clapton could make music with this piece-of-crap plastic thing with wet spaghetti for strings. Whatever noise Anthony was making with it could be construed as "music" only in the most generous rose-colored light that only a parent sees in... a drunk, deaf parent, that is. Nevertheless, it was extremely enjoyable to watch. He used one of those plastic things that keeps a bread bag closed for the pick. As far as I know, he's never seen someone playing a guitar (except for Fumie and me playing with his toy), so I [...] 
View full post » I just came across the article Bribing Bloggers on Joel Spolsky's blog. Joel heads his own software company and has been blogging since 2000, and although I'd never heard of him, he's apparently an extremely popular blogger (having 4,500 times more subscribers on Bloglines than I!). In the article, he writes about how Microsoft is offering bloggers free laptops and other gifts in the hopes of garnering positive exposure. (Unfortunately, Microsoft must have lost my email address, because I have a blog but was not offered a free laptop.) Joel discusses whether it's ethical to accept such gifts, [...]
As I mentioned the other day, my camera was in the shop to repair poor autofocus. It's back now, and my first quick tests show that its autofocus is now excellent. I'd first run into problems with the Nikon 70-200 f/2.8 that I got in November. I posted about it on the Nikon SLR Lens forum on Phil Askey's Digital Photography Review (this thread) and was told that the problem could well be my fault for not understanding what I should expect from the autofocus system. In hindsight, considering the test photos I sent, those comments were fair. [...] 
View full post » In case you haven't noticed a cute little feature I added to my blog last month, click on one of the "Index of Photos" links in the right-hand nav bar of the main page, such as "Appearing in 2006." These indices show a small, square thumbnail for every photo that appeared on my blog during the year in question. Clicking on one brings you to the corresponding post, so it's a quick way to find a post when you can remember only the photo. (I'm probably the only one who would find this useful, but it's a pretty [...]
( If you're not familiar with MySQL, this post will be of no interest. ) I like that MySQL has its replace command, which acts like an insert except that if the newly-inserted data would cause a conflict with one or more unique keys, one or more pre-existing rows are automatically deleteed to make way for the new data. However, it seems that most times that I want to use replace, I really want semantics along the lines of "update if already there; insert if not." The only difference is in the value given to unmentioned fields: [...]
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