Friday, 05/05/06

I'm being needled to post something else, so I'll take one out of the bucket. One of the logos below was scanned off an envelope sent to me, unsolicited, by "Auto Loans Now". Presumably it was a lot cheaper to hire a designer to fake up a FedEx-reminiscent logo than it would have been to actually send their junk via FedEx.

I presuppose cheapness because they apparently selected one of the half-dozen designers on the planet who never picked up on the arrow carved out of the negative space between FedEx's "E" and "x". For shame, Auto Loans Now. 04:27PM «

Tuesday, 05/02/06

I posted a while ago (a long time chronologically; not a long time pageologically) about the limited access to Safari Books Online available through the Seattle Public Library. While a three-calendar-year window into books published only by O'Reilly Media is a step down from vast cornucopia of publishers and timeframes offered by a full Safari subscription, the library's service is free to cardholders, and that's nothing to sneeze at.

I noticed recently that the SPL version also includes access to books in progress, by way of O'Reilly's Rough Cuts program. Half-finished O'Reilly titles are most likely preferable to open source documentation in its final form. The Rails Cookbook is up now, for instance. 02:05PM «

I spent some time last week pricing game consoles, since I need a new DVD player anyway. At $129 the PS2 is not terribly expensive, but add on $20 for a required (and puny) memory card, and $25 for the DVD player remote, and it's not looking like such a good deal. So I set up a craigslist query, which netted this gem:

My son is now doing odd jobs in our community and is in desperate need of yard equipment. He would like to sell his PS2 with 6 games for $95 obo. If you have yard equipment you may like to use as a partial trade that would be great.

Somebody's in some serious trouble.

I needed the DVD player because the old one belonged to my housemate, who lives eight blocks north of me now. And that's just one of the significant things that's happened since I was last posting regularly, which I will presently detail in more or less reverse-chronological order. Really. Trust me. 01:41PM «

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