Had planned to check out the yearly book-sale, (in a physical shop) but never got around to it. Yesterday, I saw an ad in Svenska Dagbladet from bokus, where they announced that feb. 28 was last day with free shipping of sale-books. I surfed over to them and started browsing. A purchase later I realized that this was the best sale ever. No scuffing around in crowds fighting for the last copy of “Swedish houses”, no missed opportunities due to excessive amounts of people in front of book-piles, and no daughters nagging about this book or that.
Throwing old magazines
Throwing away old CRT-monitors doesn’t help much if the space vacated is immediately filled with old magazines of various kinds. To make rooms for new ones, I started throwing out almost everything. I did save my Foto, Herman Hedning, Studio and about a year of MacWorld issues. I hesitated about 20 old Allt Om Elektronik, and finally decided to try scanning them.
One page took about three minutes (USB 1), allowing me to complete one full magazine in about three hours. Running off to my computers every three minutes would really annoy my family. Cleaning ut and producing optimally compressed images would probably take another hour. This was clearly not a viable alternative. Too bad.
Back at work, I discovered that the copier has a scanning function. Now I just have to slice up the magazines and fix the edge so that it doesn’t jam the feeder. When arriving at work, I put one bunch in the scanner. After a few minutes, a mail arrives with an URL to my scanned document. A 50 page pdf. Great!
Performance drain
I just installed iWork ’06 on my G4. I’ve only tried Pages so far, and I’m really disappointed. Pages 1 was quite snappy, without noticeable lag in scrolling etc. The new version is another matter. After starting it up everything sort of stops. When moving the mouse into the app, the pointer just disappears, and then reappears somewhere else, far away. Horribly sluggish. Hmm, maybe I should look into a CPU-upgrade?
A most un-exciting announcement
After many weeks of speculation in various forums around the world about the successor to Canons EOS 20D, the announcement yesterday was really dull. EOS 30D is an incremental upgrade to EOS 20D. Evolution rather than revolution.
My (film) EOS 30 has a few very useful features that all Canon DSLRs lack today: control-knobs that can be used wearing gloves, eye-control auto focus and silent operation. It’s so silent that I once thought that it malfunctioned when nothing happened. The film was rewinding and I never noticed…
Until Canon releases an EOS xxD with eye-control focus I’ll stick with film.
Joining NewCo after all
On a meeting with HR I was informed that the company wanted to move me to another department, rather than laying me off. As my reason for declining was the long commute, not the job in it self, I surprised my immediate manager (again) by saying that I’d prefer to join NewCo after all. She seemed quite happy with that, and noone else seems to have had any objections.
I’m still polishing my resumè though.