soapbox

Michael made a post a while ago about the Eye-Fi memory card that can both store pictures in your camera and automatically send them to you. It turns out that they might not be such a bad idea, especially if you tend to lose things.

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0534545220080606

Basically, the woman had one of the cards in her camera and left the camera in a restaurant full of pictures of her baby eating its first food and other important pictures. The people who ended up taking the camera walked by an open wifi access point and all the pictures got emailed to the camera owner… along with pictures of the kids who took the camera.

(I’ll try not to get on my high horse about the fact that doing this basically requires that everyone be using unsecured wifi base stations named “linksys”…)

After 15 months I finally finished knitting my first sweater…just in time for summer.

A few years ago, I went on a kick of enfriending basically everyone that I knew from my home town in Alaska and I ended up with one friend who was one of the little kids in my church growing up. Of course, he grew up and was apparently gay and had issues with depression.

Sometime earlier this year, he ended up committing suicide.

That means that now I have a dead friend. Since Facebook doesn’t seem to have a policy of purging its users of the dead or just people who don’t use Facebook often, it looks like his profile will just continue on espousing “long live the flying spaghetti monster” as a religious view.

On one hand, it’s kind of odd that the page will probably last for as long as facebook does. (What is the lifetime of a social networking site anyway?) On the other hand, it’s a little bit comforting that the web will remember you even if the rest of the world doesn’t.