My “real” e-mail address is on Verizon. Everything sent to a DogRat.com address is automatically forwarded to my Verizon mailbox. Verizon doesn’t provide its own web mail access, but instead uses Yahoo!
Two things about using Yahoo! for web mail are:
When exiting Yahoo!, the focus is taken away from the address field, and put on the search field, which assumes the next thing the user wants to do is search. Very annoying and unacceptable.
Lots of ads. Also annoying, but accepted.
Many of the ads feature this woman’s face, selling all sorts of different, always questionable, products. Sometimes she’s called Julie, or Candy, or whatever.
Obviously she’s not officially endorsing anything, and her image is being used without permission. She looks French, and she’s apparently a newscaster, so using that Yahoo! search field that I’m always forced into, and entering “french newscaster,” the name Mélissa Theuriau is the #1 result.
It’s not the Internet, which was developed under the direction of Bob Taylor. It’s not Xerox PARC, where the GUI, Ethernet, and laser printing were developed under the guidance of the same Bob Taylor, and it’s not the Wordwide Web, developed by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. It’s just another Web site. A Web site that only now is going to have its own data centers. It’s Facebook.
Does the human interest story behind the start of Facebook, and the fact that it’s current and has 20-something appeal, make it more worthy of a major motion picture than the creation of the Internet and the WWW? Doesn’t matter, because the movie The Social Network is coming…
I like Facebook. Has it changed my life? No, WordPress has had a much bigger effect on me personally. I’ve been on the Internet from home since early 1994, and Facebook came along much too late in my online experience for me to be awed by it.
By the way, the version of radiohead’s “creep” that’s heard in that movie trailer is by the Belgian singing group the Scala & Kolacny Brothers Choir, who I featured here a couple of years ago.
Gizmodo had an item about something they spotted on Boing Boing — a test made by Kodak in 1922 with Kodachrome movie film. This is a nice follow-up to the post about color photography in Russia during the previous decade.
People liked seeing images of women, even way back then? Amazing!
Hey, wait a sec’… the Library of Congress bought those photographic plates back in ‘48?? That was only a year before the Soviets had their first atomic bomb test! Some Commie sympathizer in the LoC wasted American post-war taxpayer money on Russian photos?? I’m outraged!
My LG “clamcell” phone takes mediocre photos, but this is my site as seen on tastewar’s iPhone 4. I’m very pleased with how well the WPtouch iPhone Theme 1.9.x Basic mobile phone plug-in works. It’s hard to see in the picture, but there’s an option at the bottom of the page to enable/disable it. Very nice.
I really obsess before purchasing electronics. Eric needs a laptop computer for college, and we agreed that it should have a Blu-ray player with HDMI. The problem was, I had budgeted $600 for the purchase, and Blu-ray laptops are $750 and up. But then I found this Acer Aspire model on Wal*Mart’s web site for $598:
Over the past month I’ve looked at a lot of laptop computers in Best Buy, Staples, Wal*Mart, and BJ’s Warehouse, and this Acer is a great unit, regardless of price. I’ve been very happy with my Acer Aspire One netbook, and the construction quality of this full-featured laptop is excellent. Blu-ray video discs start up much more quickly than on standalone players, and the playback is perfectly smooth.
FedEx shipping was only $0.97, and after placing the order on Sunday (a sales tax holiday in Massachusetts) it shipped on Monday and arrived on Wednesday. I know that Wal*Mart is thought of as being the Evil Empire, but I couldn’t pass up this deal.
Follow-up: The price has dropped to $578! This is the #1 bargain right now for a Windows laptop.
