Author: DOuG pRATt
Look in the Mirren
The answer to the “Name the Actress” question is HELEN MIRREN. The picture of Mirren at age 22 is from Age of Consent, one of the last movies made by director Michael Powell.
The Boys
Laurel and Hardy don’t exist, I fear, for folks who are very much younger than myself. And that’s a shame. Let’s watch what is perhaps their finest silent movie, Big Business (1929).
I Shot the Screen
Here’s another boring screen shot of a technical-related thing. Sorry! Will get back to fun stuff in the next post.
If you don’t know what the “Feeds” on the right do, this is how they appear in my Yahoo! home page. I’m extremely sensitive to how daunting all of this new technology is to the vast majority of people, but to me it is neat, although frequently as frustrating as it is to anybody else.
Refun’
Yay. The $20 rebate for my 2GB flash drive is finally here, so the final cost is $50. This takes just a teeny, tiny bit of the sting out of the $1100 it cost to put a catalytic converter and oxygen sensor in my ’98 Accord.
The new SanDisk drives include a system called U3, which is one of several competing systems for loading applications off of flash memory. At first I was wary of it, but I’ve decided my concerns were unfounded and now I’m excited about its potential.
Here’s a screen shot of the U3 Launchpad, with my selection of applications. The Filezilla file transfer program is very good, and I use it to push big files up to this blog. And I really like the design of the Essential Personal Information Manager. It has a great little graphical HTML editor.
Picture This
Here’s a cropped screen shot taken from the video clip of last night’s Colbert Report. This is how the image quality should look on your computer, too, when played with the embedded controls; i.e., scaled up smoothly by the media player from 320×240 pixels, without jaggies. Just checking! If you launch it from the “player problem” link it’ll be in its original, smaller size.