Other Google news that I wasn’t planning on mentioning: the Google Chrome browser (pfft, for Windows, learn more in Serbian); Picasa name tags (which is getting billed as face recognition ); and Webmaster Tools (although Set your canonical domain at Google looks like it might be useful).

Intellectually I suppose I knew that the McDonald’s which served as a prototype for my construction in LEGO® elements last year didn’t always have a red roof. But now there’s proof which could help to narrow the time in which the remodeling occured. The scanning project has also caught up with the 23 May 1995 capture of the McDonald’s at 7265 Arlington Boulevard where the sign still said Over 99 Billion Served last seen on this website over 4 years ago. That previous scan wasn’t terrible.

Hmm… the tricorder replica is now expected in January…

Pages at the current site of WAMALUG link to the Home page with an absolute reference to the current URL. The pages that I wrote (which remain available if you know the folder name) linked to the Home page using what I called the dot-slash trick 5 years ago. Upshot: the pages I wrote have Home links that survived the change of top level domain. How future-proofed is your site?

Surely they have to invite me to the Roy Rogers pool now…

Two people saw fit yesterday to ask if I had heard about the pick for vice president by the presumed Republican candidate for president. Maybe they could, like, get together and chat about mutual interests or something.

BBEdit alerts me that a new version (9.0) is available. Already know about it, and to the extent that I don’t use Unity mode in VMware Fusion, I’m having difficulty seeing why I shouldn’t stick with 8.7.2. It probably means I’m way underqualified to be using this particular text editor.

Tonight I concluded the scanning of the one hundred ten rolls I shot in the Minolta Maxxum 7000i and scanned the first roll through the Minolta Maxxum 8000i. The five-year jump back in time puts me in the Arlington Courthouse Plaza address again.

The one hundred ninth roll through the Minolta Maxxum 7000i also had a frame ripped, but this time the photofinisher created a copy negative. The Nikon COOLSCAN V ED always puts up a fuss when I change modules (the single frame of negative must be mounted in a slide holder, the film module removed, and the slide module inserted). I think they must have made the copy negative from the print, though, based on the crop and the slightly worse resolution and color tone. I’m displaying the original negative of my visit to the S.S. United States at Pier 82 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I’ve rotated the corner of the frame to align the date imprint and road patterns. I was aboard this ship twice in 1966.

The scan of the one hundred eighth roll through the Minolta Maxxum 7000i means that the refurbishment of the photo series documenting the construction of the AMC Hoffman Center 22 can start. The last rolls I shot through this camera were Fujicolor Press 800.

A mis-directed upload yesterday delayed the appearance of the dispatch.

DASH is encouraging ballot stuffing of its entry in the 2008 BUSRide/Oracal USA MotorVision Competition but I think I’ll have to go with the entry from Fargo and the North Dakota Soybean Council wrap. If I didn’t have to complete a form first, that is.

Did I not say Just say no to Eurostile ? I did. The Baltimore Sun was not listening.

As the number of rolls from the Minolta Maxxum 7000i left to scan dwindles into the single digits, the arrays of photographs on each of the cinemas page, the trains page, and from the police menu continue to expand. The one hundred sixth roll promises additions to each category and to another as well.

I continued to use the Minolta Maxxum 7000i past the purchase of the Minolta Maxxum 700si. I’ll have my staff get back to you on just how many cameras I ended up with over the years.

The demand to install Service Pack 3 for Windows XP finally arrived.