One thing that mystifies me is the way car companies implement electric cars. So here you have a car that has a limited range. So when the batteries are depleted, you’re supposed to stop for several hours and recharge them? Why? There is already an infrastructure (gas stations) that would be able to handle the recharging. When your battery is about to go empty, you stop at a recharging station (gas station) and exchange to a freshly recharged battery. Make the cells in a box that’s exchangeable. What you pay for is the recharging of batteries, and you pay a little extra for using the battery. This covers the cost of replacing used up batteries for the charging station. Of course, they all have to agree to use the same size for the batteries and to make a way of getting the battery changing done automatically. But if you can put a man on the moon, surely you could make this work? Maybe I’m missing something. And another way of making electric cars popular? Try performance. It’s effortless to make electric vehicles accelerate like hell. Make a cheap, nice looking and fast accelerating electric vehicle tailored for young people. Like the Ford Mustang used to do. If your ass is kicked at the stoplight by an electric car, you may consider one the next time you buy a car. Especially if you don’t have to stop and wait for recharging.
Photoshop, color correction, calibration and management
If your interested in learning how to color correct images in Photoshop and learn how color management works, this is the book. Photoshop Color Correction by Michael Kieran is an excellent book about all these subjects. It includes an example cd, and he goes through several examples on how to create exceptional looking images without color casts and other problems. He also shows how to set the black and white points of an image, how to make all adjustments using curves and a lot of tricks on how to fix a seemingly impossible image with modified profiles.
A must if you like to use Photoshop to edit your digital photos.
Fool me twice, shame on me…
So they decided to vote in the nitwit again. There’s a famous picture by Diane Arbus of a young man taken in 1967 with “Bomb Hanoi” buttons proudly on his chest. It was the first thing that popped in to my head when I saw that Bush probably will win.
100mbit/sec
So I upgraded my internet connection to 100mbit/sec. This is something that I would have thought that I would do in three to four years, but it’s a reality now. All I had to do was to enable it on my admin page at my ISP (and also get a bigger bill next month!) and ten minutes later after a reboot of my firewall, I was up and running. This is the way to do it! And this on a sunday! Lovely.
But of course there was other problems. The first was my firewall. It’s a NetGear FR114P firewall. It has a 100mbit WAN port, which is something they are bosting about. Problem is, the throughput is around 10mbit/sec. So why put a 100mbit ethernet connector on the box?
So I rig an old linux machine with a 400 pentium II as a firewall using Astaro security Linux. Now It gets a little better; around 20mbit/sec. So I put an extra ethernet card in my Mac OS X Server machine and used it as a NAT firewall machine. And now it’s full speed! And it’s insanely fast.
The download limit is 300 gb per month, and both down/upload counts, so this could be a deal braker, but only time will tell…
My old Newton
My friend Martin once gave me a special edition of Apples Newton. It was transparent so you could see all the internal stuff. Very cool. I managed to drop it, unfortunately, so I got to see all the internals first hand 🙁 Wish I still had it. To this day I have still not seen any PDA with the same features that the Newton had. For one thing, how come they still don’t have an auto correct feature in the drawing programs? If you drew a circle on the Newton, it automatically corrected it to make it into a real circle. No bitmapped image but vectorized. Perfect for people like me who couldn’t draw a straight line at gunpoint.
But for me, PDAs is a closed chapter, I want that functionality in my car phone ala the SonyEricsson p900.
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