How cool is this? Spotted today at Rotterdam Airport, just in front of the taxi rank.
This is a place to drop off loved ones, with a strict 5 minutes limit: drop and go. With humour and good observation I suppose the area’s called the “kiss and go” area. Wonderful.
Fun site for occasional distraction. Certainly worth a place on your RSS subscription list. My fave from a quick scan – the first in particular would be great for finding images for corporate powerpoint.
Five suggested Flickr tags
April 11th, 20061. “Rows Of Seated White Men Typing At Conferences”
2. “My Underlit Dessert With One Bite Missing”
3. “My Defenseless Child In A Funny Shirt I Made Him Wear”
4. “Attractive Man In His Twenties Playing An Electric Guitar”
5. “The Photo From This ‘Impromptu’ Self Portrait Series That Suggests I Don’t Have A Dewlap”
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nice.
Procrastination hack: “(10 2)*5” | 43 Folders
Top notch posting.
I admire someone who’s that combination of arch procrastinator and structured thinker… leading to a theory and practice for the “agile” and “extreme” procrastination.
I sense the need for a professional association… 🙂
Graffiti Research Lab � LED Throwies
The GRL is “dedicated to outfitting graffiti artists with open source technologies for urban communication”. OK, whatever. It’s geek-meets-boarder-chic.
While I’d of course not condone the vandalism of property, it’s undeniable that there are ‘urban corners’ where the graffiti art (for indeed some of it is art imho) adds to the quotient of joy in the world rather than detracts from it. I say this as a Shoreditch resident, daily cheered by the Banksy art I pass on my walk into town.
Less permanent than point though are the “throwies”:
LED Throwies are an inexpensive way to add color to any ferromagnetic surface in your neighborhood. A Throwie consists of a lithium battery, a 10mm diffused LED and a rare-earth magnet taped together. Throw it up high and in quantity to impress your friends and city officials.
They’d look nice on the railway bridges, I reckon.
Then, however, I remembered the EU directives on things with batteries, disposal thereof etc, and realised that this is probably not the most ‘eco’ of ways to make social comment and communication…
Over the last few years it’s been customary to have an occasional catchup with friends and former colleagues (who are friends, iyswim) at Clerkenwell House. This pub has been the venue for some major outings: dot com weekly drinks; success drinks for funding rounds; commiseration drinks after downsizing rounds… Sigh.
Anyway, now that I’m back in town we’re going to meet for “just the one” (as Camilla would say) as follows:
On: Thursday 11 May
When: 6.30pm onwards
Looking forward to that half pint before heading home… 🙂
Apple – Support – Discussions – Can’t find Laserwriter 4/600 on network … Either on their own will either make a red light flash or print a test page. Both together will upon release print the “Self Test/Configuration” page. This gives you the IP address (called “HP Jetsend Address”.
Use the print setup utility to do “IP Printing” and enter the IP address from the Self Test sheet. Bingo.
From the configurable options I see that there’s a setting for “Personality” (my printer’s set to “auto”). Anyone have thoughts on the personality options?
Evil? Tetchy? Unhelpful? Unpredictable???
🙂
Now, all we need is for Apple to put up a “how to migrate to Intel” site (bit like their old “Switcher” site) to help us through the glitches and the oursourced (ie to customers!) testing regime…
Rather annoying ‘march of progress’ item this: can’t print to my lovely Laserwriter 2100TN (Da Workhorse!) wirelessly. This problem had stumped the MacGenii at the Regent Street Apple shop, so I did some googling (clearly more than the Gurus had bothered doing) and found the article above on the Apple support forums… Bah.
Problem arises when you have a network printer attached to a n ethernet hub. The wireless router attaches to that and the MacBookPro comes to the printer via the Airport and thence via ethernet to the printer. Note that this has worked for years (at least 2001) with the old PowerBooks. Add in the gee-whiz MBP and – erm – nothing. Oddly, you can print if you connect the MBP to the network using an ethernet cable. Ergo, problem is appletalk over wireless.
Leaving aside questions like “what’s the point of appletalk”, the solution I’ve found is to use IP printing.
Method (for the lovely 2100TN):
* press and hold both the power button (big, round) and the cancel button (small, round with triangle in it) together.
This is a total classic. I found it while researching a Skype-compatible headset that’s also going to work with OSX.
This guy, however, would have no truck with seeking solutions: just build your own!
His “lessons learned” section is fun, but this point gives a flavour:
I saved a great deal of money in comparison to actually buying a headset. Based on current retail prices, I could buy an acceptable headset for Skype for about $60. Instead, I built my own for only $95 + $149 + a few cents for tape, newsprint, and ink = $244.
$244? Never mind: just feel the pride!
It’s also a great way to ensure that those Grado cans don’t go to waste (in this day of in-ear, noise-cancelling buds). Ahh – I remember the days of open-design headphones, and letting the whole office hear the ‘ker-tsh tsh flrrr” overspill of my music… 🙂